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gradually increasing in length till at the apex they are 3 mm. by - 5 mm., of 

 which the apical bract only is fertile ; the mature strobilus, with swollen 

 bract-bases, is 7 mm. by 4 mm., not including the seed. Ovuliferous scale 

 is 2 mm. in height and 2 mm. broad, persisting in the axil of the fertile 

 bract after the seed is shed. Seed 5 by 2 mm. All measurements of the 

 fruiting-stages and drawings are from material in formalin. Pollination 

 drops were seen on the young ovules. 



The mature fruiting-form of this species was only seen in one or two 

 isolated examples on the open summit of Koebre* ridge, small trees +10 m. 

 high, with short trunks and rounded crowns of rigid ascending branches, 

 bearing numerous small red and fleshy cones. In younger stages this plant 

 was very abundant on the crest of the S.W. ridge and in the forest round 

 the ? lake. The foliage of the seedlings is plumose in character to '50 in. 

 in height, when the small adpressed scaly leaves begin to appear. 



In the peculiar habit and the strap-shaped laminae of the bracts composing 

 the strobilus, this species is quite distinct from known members of the genus. 



PODOCARPUS PAPUANUS Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ix. 158, quoad 

 spec. Klossianum de Gamp III apportatum, non aliorum. 



Arfak Mts , Angi lakes, common on the surrounding ridges and in 

 spinneys by the ? lake, 7000-9000'. Fl. ? ., Fr. (yg.). Dec. 5540. 



Diittrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Hatam, Beccari ; D.S.W., 

 Mt. Carstensz, Kloss). 



A fine tree, 30 m. in height, very like P. imbricatus Bl. in habit and in 

 the dimorphic foliage, both seedling and youth form of foliage being identical 

 tn both species in fact, like Beccari, I took the young plant for that species 

 in the field, but the foliage of the mature tree is more spreading and distinct, 

 the scales of the $ cones differ in shape, while the ? cones are larger and 

 very glaucous in appearance. The fusion of the lamina of the fertile bract 

 with the ovuliferous scale is also less complete than is the case in P. imbri- 

 catus and the position of the seed is more oblique. Dr. Beccari most kindly 

 sent me some of his Arfak material, published as P. imbricatus^ which, on 

 comparison, proved identical with the above. 



The description of this plant being limited to the mature foliage 

 and one <$ cone, I append what is necessarily wanting in the original 

 diagnosis : 



Arbor alta ; truncus teres, erectus ; rami fere penduli, copiose ramulosi ; ramuli 

 flexuosi, graciles. Folia dimorpha, juvenilia 1 cm. longa, 2 mm. lata, biseriatim 

 expansa, plana, anguste linearia, mucronato-pungentia, decurrentia, apicem et basin 

 versus decrescentia. Strobili feminei 1*2 cin. longi, '5 mm. lati, ad apicem ramu- 

 lorum brevium erecti. Bractece 2 ve!3, 2 mm., glaucescentes, laminae teretiusculae, 

 apice obtusae, 2 mm. longse, '8 mm. latse (inter se connatse), basi incrassata, verru- 

 culosa 4-5 mm. longa, 1 vel 2 superioribus fertilia, lamina bracteis fertilioribus cum 



