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X YllID A C E M. 



*XYRIS PAUCIFLORA Wildm. Phytogr. i. 2, t. i. f. 1. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, common in open marsh by ? lake. FL, Fr. 

 Dec. 5928. 



Distrib. India (" Foot-hills of the Himalayas, in marshes, from Nepal 

 eastwards, N. Bengal to Burma," Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi. 365), Ceylon, 

 Malay Peninsula, N. Borneo, Celebes, Philippines, and China. N.E. Australia. 



ERIOCAULACE^E. (A. B. RENDLE.) 

 ERIOCAULON LEUCOGENES 1 Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ix. (1916) 



240. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, common on marsh by $ lake, where open and 

 sandy, 7000'. Fl. Dec. 5567. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Mt. Carstensz, Kloss). 

 " Flower heads mauve." The plants show a great range in size from 

 6 cm. to 20 cm., the heads varying in diameter from '5 to 1 cm. 



JUNCACE^E. (A. B. RENDLE.) 

 JUNO us LAMPOCARPUS Ebrh. Calam. n. 126 ; Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 



Bot. ix. (1916) 231. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake, 7000'. Fl. Dec. 5927. 

 Distrib. Temperate Europe and Asia, N. and E. Africa, Eastern N. 

 America, S.E. Australia and New Zealand. 



LILIACE^E. 



DIANELLA CGERULEA Sims, Bot. Mag. (1801) t. 505 ; Schum. & Laut. 219 ; 

 Nova Guinea, viii. (1914) 996 ; Ridl. in Trans. Linn. iSoc. ser. 2, Bot. 

 ix. (1916) 230. 



Arfak Mts., in high forest below, and in open spaces on the S.W. ridg", 

 running up to Angi lakes, also in open marsh by ? lake, 7000-8000'. Fl. 

 Dec. 5519. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Gjellerup; D.S.W., G.-lieb, 

 Brandenliorst; Mt. Carstensz, Kloss; N.E.). Philippines, New Caledonia, 

 and Fiji ; N.E. Australia to Tasmania. 



Acaulescent, and with light blue flowers. 



LUZURIAGA ASPERICAULIS Hall. f. in Nova Guinea, viii. (1914) 991, 



t. clxxxi. 

 Arfak Mts., twining in mossy forest on S.W. ridge running up to Angi 



1 A species of Eriocanlon was also collected by Miss Gibbs on Mt. Kinabalu at 12,000' 

 (no. 4209) by Kadamaiau torrent, on the granite core near the summit of the mountain ; 

 it was mixed with Centrolepis kinabaluensis Gibbs (no. 4209) (see p. 99). .It is a csespitose 

 plant, forming small cushions 2 - 5 cm. high, with glabrous leaves 2-2'5 cm. long, jhl mm. 

 wide in the middle, linear-tapering from a broad membranous base. The specimens are all 

 Bterile. No Eriocaulon has hitherto been recorded from the grauitd core of the mountain. 



