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LYCOPODIUM VOLUBILE Forst. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, scrambling up to 10 in. in forest spinneys by 

 ? lake, 7000'. Dec. 5954. S.W. ridge, scrambling- in moss-grown forest, 

 7000-8500'. 5982. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Beccari ; S.E.). Malay 

 Islands. Australasia. Polynesia. 



PsiLOTUM FLACCIDUM Wall. 



Arfak Mts., Koebre Mt., epiphytic in forest, 7500'. Dec. 5633. 

 Distril. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Beccari ; D.S.W., Noord 

 Rivier, Versteeg ; Mt. Carstensz, Kloss ; N.E.). Tropics. 



SELAGINELLA ANGUSTIRAMEA F. Muell. & Baker. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, terrestrial on edge of forest by ? lake, 7000'. 

 Dec. 5726. " Growing in patches." 



Distrib. New Guinea (N.E. ; S.E.). 



SPERMATOPHYTA. 

 CONIFERS. 



TA x ACE^E. 



DACRYDIUM NOVO-GUINEENSE Gibbs, sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, dioica, in statu juvenili erecta ; ramulis foliis longioribus 5-seriatim 

 imbricatis pncditis, postea ramulis gracilioribus folia breviora gignentibus. Folia 

 in statu plantae juvenili laxiuscula, squarrosa, acicularia, incurvato-pungentia, sectione 

 triangulare ; folia in statu adultiori parva, dense imbricata, 5-seriata squami- 

 formia, triangularia, apice pungentia, facie plana, dorso carinata ; folia ramoruin 

 fertilium arete applicata, rhombica, acuta, dorso carinata, sectione sub-tetragona. 

 Strobili masculi ignoti. Strobili feminei ad apicem ramulorum brevissimorum 

 axillarium erecti, parvi ; bractese 24, lineares, apice apiculata?, incurvat^, carinata?, 

 margine membranaceae, basi incrassata?, demum carnosse, rubrse, bractea fertilis 

 unica, terminalis. Squama ovuligera fere usque ad basin libera, sub anthesi teres, 

 cucullata. Ovulum in statu pollinifero liberura, squama ovuligera adhuc immatura 

 circumdatum. Seminn erecta vel obliqua, bracteam summum sterilem superantia, 

 ovoideo-angulata, viridia, nitida, basi ad | vel i squama ovuligera incrassato- 

 cupuliforme cincta. 



Hob. Arfak Mts., crest of ridges and forest by ? lake, 7000-9000'. 

 Seedling, ? lake, 7000'. Dec. 5508. Koebre" ridge, open summit, 9000'. 

 ? . Fr. with mature foliage. 5648. 



Foliage of seedling branches 1 cm. across, the leaves 4 mm. by '5 mm. ; 

 tbat of more adult branches 1*5 mm. across, the leaves 1*5 by *4 mm. ; 

 foliage of fruiting branches 2 mm. across, the adpressed lozenge-shaped leaves 

 1*7 mm. by 1 mm. Strobilus 7 mm. by 3 mm., imbricating, with bracts 



