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triangulates, subacuti ; stamina ; ovariuin inferum, lineare ; stylus brevis, stigmate 

 4-lobo coronatus. 



Hob. Arfak Mts., slopes of Koebre Mt., 8000', epiphytic in forest. Fl., 

 c? ? . Dec. 5620. 



A green epiphyte with thick leaves. The mature leaves are generally 

 deflexed (when dried), 8 by 3*5 mm., with margins and apex convexly 

 incurved spread out after boiling, they are + 8 mm. long and 5 mm. 

 across. The apiculus often disappears in the mature state, when the apex 

 is just rounded and incurved. The flowering branches are 4'9 cm. long. 

 The < flowers are fasciculate and extremely minute, 1 mm. long. The 

 ? flowers are 2 mm. long, generally binate. Fruit 5 mm. long and 

 3 mm. broad, angular and curved, crowned with the persistent lobes of 

 the perigonium. 



This plant, in its very minute thick leaves, with the incurved apiculus, is 

 distinct from all members of the genus so far known. 



POLYGONACEJ:. 



*POLYGONUM STRIGOSUM R. Br. Prod. 420. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake. Fl., Fr. Dec. 5941. 



Distrib. Burma and Malay Peninsula ; Java, Philippines ; N.E. to 

 S.E. Australia and Tasmania. Africa. 



A very glabrous form with white flowers. 



POLYGONUM ALATUM Emit, ex Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. (1825) 72; Ridl. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ix. (1916) 139. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, common in open marsh by ? lake, 7000'. Fl., 

 Fr. 5919. 



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

 Java, Japan, N.W. and S.W. China to India. 



POLYGONUM BARBATUM L. Spec. PI. i. 362; Schum. & Laut. 302. 



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

 5940. 



Distrib. New Guinea (N.E.). Polynesia, N.E. Australia, Malaya, N.W. 

 to S. Asia. Tropical and S. Africa. 



A rather reduced form with pink flowers. 



MAGNOLIACE^E. 



DRIMYS (TASMANNIA) BECCARTANA Gibbs, sp. nov. 



Frutex omnino glaber, dioicus, ramuli teretes, cortice cinnamoneo obducti. 

 Folia obovato-lanceolata, obtusiuscula, basi sensim in petiolum angustata, margine 

 revoluta, integerrima, coriacea, glanduloso-punctata, rete nervorum utrinque pro- 

 minente nervis lateralibus ante marginem arcuatim anastomosantibus. Flores in 

 axillis foliorum fascicuktiin dispositi. Flos <$ sepala 2, kte oblonga, glanduloso- 



