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and the tender pink flowers in clusters on the bare steins of the old wood, 

 Myrtus arfakensis with yellow flowers and black berries, and Poikilogyne 

 arfakensis with spreading cymes of pink flowers, the size of blackberries ; 

 in the young plants of this, in which the long single wand-like shoots flower 

 at 2 m., the flowers of the ample terminal cyme are larger. 



The very abundant Anomopanax arfakensis, Shefflera arfakensis of com- 

 pact habit, and Kissodendron bipinnatum, with terminal bunches of enormous 

 leaves and inflorescence, were interesting representatives of the Araliacea?, a 

 family generally typical of primitive forest, the first to disappear under 

 secondary conditions. Rhododendron Devriesianum, its huge white panicles 

 just breaking into flower, StypheUa trochocarpoides^ with white flowers and 

 striking bunches of black berries, one of Beccari's Hatam plants, Vaccinium 

 roseiflorum, with small massed racemes of waxy pink flowers, while Mcesa 

 fruticosa, the handsome Symplocos novo-guineensis with S. arfakensis, and 

 Timonius brevipes, all showed white flowers. 



Once inside this forest, it reminded me strikingly of Fijian conditions in 

 the abundance of stictaceous Lichens, so absent through Malaya, the luxuri- 

 ance of the moss and fern flora, and the many creeping terrestrial orchids 

 with a wealth of graceful epiphytic forms. The slender epiphytes and 

 climbing plants combined in a sensuous harmony of well-balanced growth- 

 forms, amongst which the stately trunks of the Libocedrus, and the straight 

 stems of P. papuanus and Dacrydium novo-guineense, with rough scaly brown 

 bark, stood out amongst the smaller angiospermous forest trees. 



Undergroicth. The ground was carpeted with those most beautiful 

 mosses *Rhodobryum giganteum and IJi/pnodendron diversifolium in fruit, 

 and creeping between their soft tufts of delicate foliage, the pink-veined 

 velvety-green leaves of ? Eucosia papuana in fruit, Microstylis prodacta 

 with shading orange-yellow spikes, and the white spikes of Goodyera 

 arfakensis were equally distributed. Colonies of the two varieties elatior 

 and longicalcarata of Platanthera elliptica were abundant, also the ubiquitous 

 *Lycopodium serratum, while many tiny clumps of the quaint endemic 

 saprophytic genus, first discovered by Beccari in the Arfak, but now- 

 established for the whole of New Guinea, the wine-red Corsia ornata, with 

 little heads all pointing in one direction, gave a typically Papuan note. 



On the north-east side, creeping under the bracken, the fine Pterostylis 

 papuana var. arfakensis, from cream to brown-pink in- colour, Liparis lacus, 

 a small plant with brown labellum and green petals, and a minute brown 

 Stiymatodactylus sp. past flowering, grew on the forest edge. Taller plants 

 were * Histiopteris incisa, P1iaiusflavus var. papuanus, Riedelia montana var. 

 arfakensis. Young plants of Pandanus sp. with Kentia Gibbsiana, a slight 

 tree-fern Cyathea fusca, 3 m. high, with Anomopanax arfakensis. Rlwdo- 

 dendron Vonroemeri, the longly pedicelled small orange-yellow flowers 

 recalling some Azalea sp., a very graceful plant, quite distinct in the genus, 



