3-4 mm. diam., pallide vel fnsco-viridiaj flabellato -nervosa, nervis 

 exsiccando prominulis. Fetala dextrorsum vel sinlstrorsiim contorta, 

 eJliptica, subunguiculata, 10 mm. longa, G mm. lata. Stamma glaher- 

 rima ; filaraenta longiora 6 mm. longa, tubo 2 mm. alto. Ovarhim 

 3-loculare ; styli 3 quam filamenta multo breviores. Fritctus ignotus. 



BoiiNEO : Sarawak ; Rejang, Ilaviland^s Collector^ 2831:. 



The genus Diirandea was described by Planchon (in Hook. Lond. 

 Jonrn. Bot. vol. vii. p. 527) from a plant at Kew, collected by 

 Labillardiere on the north-east coast of New Caledonia. Unfor- 

 tunately Planchon described the ovules as solitary, instead of geminate, 

 in each ovary-cell. This may have misled Vieillard, who redescribed 

 Planchon's Diirandea serrata as Penicillantliemum neo-caledonicnm^ 

 one of the types of his new genus Penicillanflieinnm, Almost simul- 

 taneously F. V. Mueller published a ne^v species of llngonia^ viz. 

 //. Jenkinsii from Queensland, which is no doubt a congener of 

 Planchon's Dturmdea. Several species of i)^iran<fea were subsequently 

 collected in various parts of Polynesia ; but it was not until 1889 that 

 another species was recognised as belonging to Darandea, This was 

 I), pallida^ Iv. Sebum., from German New Guinea, and quite recently 

 two other species, namely, D. rotundata and D, iientagyna., have been 

 described by Warburg from the same country. Five more species,- 

 hitherto undescribed, have now to be added from the material at Kcw. 



The geographical distribution of the species of Durandea knowji io 



me is as follows ; — 



1. D, serrata, Planch. (Syn. Penicillanthemiun nco~caledoniciim^ 

 Tieill. in Pull. Soc. Linn. Normand. vol. x. p. 7). 



Nkw Caledonia : North-east coast ; Balade, Lahillardierc, East 

 coast; Wagap mountains, Vieillard, ^^\. 



2. D. racemosa, Stapf (Syn. Penicillantheiman racemosiun, Vieill. 

 I.e. p. G). 



New Caledonia : East coast ; Wagap mountains, Vieillard, 21G3. 



3. D. latifolia, Stapf (Syn, Pe7iiciUanthe7nit7n JatifoUum, Yicill. I.e.). 

 New Caledonia : East coast ; Wagap mountains, Vieillard, 21 G7. 



4. D. Lenormandii, Stapf {sp, nov.) ; a D, serrata foliis angustiori- 

 l>us (5-10 cm. longis, 8 -IS mm. latis) plerumque aoutis, intlorcscentiis 

 glaberrimis (haud^ minute puberulis), sepalis i)etalisrjue (in alabastris 

 quidem) albociliatis distincta. 



New Calkdonia: East coast; on the highest mountains 

 Wagap, Vieillard, 2224. 



5. D. Deplanchei, Stapf {sp. nor,) ; a D. racemosa, quacum petalis 

 filamentisque bau pdosis congruit, inflorescentiis multo i>racilioribus 



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