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This plant is very near A. laivis Forst., common in New Caledonia and 

 N.E. Australia, only differing in the cuspidate leaves and much reduced 

 cymes with smaller flowers. 



EUPHORBIACEJS. (J. HUTCHINSON.) 

 HOMALANTHUS ARFAKIENSIS HutchinSOn, Sp. DOV. 



Arbor parva, ramulis junioribus flexuosis in sicco costatis glabris. Folia ovato- 

 lanceolata, sensim subacute acuminata, basi rotundata, 4-6 cm. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, 

 chartacea, utrinque supra impresso-reticukta, glabra ; costa supra prominuk, infra 

 prominens ; nervi laterales utrinsecus 7-9, a costa sub angulo lato abeuntes, infra 

 prominuli, prominenter conjunct! ; petioli 1-2 cm. longi, purpurascentes, supra kte 

 canaliculati, glabri ; stipulae caducse, lanceolatse, acute, 1 cm. longze, tenuiter char- 

 taceae, glabrse. Inflorescentia $ axillaris, racemosa, basi flore solitario instructa, 

 cireiter 2 cm. longa, glabra. Flores c? brevissime pedicelkti, basi gkndulosi. 

 Antlierce sessiles, circiter 6. Flores $ : pedicelli demum 1'5 cm. longi, recurvati, 

 costati. Calyx breviter patelliforinis, membranaceus, gkber, basi extra gkndulo 

 magno carnoso ornatus. Ovarium biloculare, glabrum, stylo nullo, stigmatibus 

 2 divaricatis 3 '5 mm. longis. Fructus non visus. 



Hab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest by ? lake, 7000'. Fl., 

 c? ? . Dec. 5966. 



*GLOCHIDION MERRILLII Robinson in Phil. Journ. Sci. iv. (1909) 100. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest by ? lake. FL, Fr. Dec. 5735. 

 Distrib. Philippines. 



S APIND AC E jE. 



DODONJEA VISCOSA Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 19 ; Schum. & Laut. 423 ; Nova 

 Guinea, viii. (1907) 172 ; Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ix. 

 (1916) 32. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, 7000', edge of forest and spinneys by ? lake. 

 Fr. Dec. 5557. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Okaba, Brandenhorst ; Mt. Carstensz, 

 Kloss ; N.E. and adjacent islands). India, Indo-China, Malaya, Polynesia, 

 Australia, New Zealand. 



BALSAMINACB^E. 

 IMPATIENS HERZOGII K. Sch. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. ix. (1887) 204 ; Schum. 



& Laut. 425. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, 7000', marshy places in forest by ? lake. Fl. 

 Dec. 5537. 



Distrib. N.E. New Guinea. 



About 1 m. high, with red stems, red veins to leaves, and white flowers. 

 This beautiful species was always found in boggy places in the forest, as 

 the latter ran out on the open marsh. Though rather smaller in nil 

 parts, which is to be expected from the altitude, the above specimens agree 

 perfectly with Schumann's species. 



