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pores ; filaments 4 mm. long. Ovaries 4 mm. and styles 6 mm. long. The 

 material is insufficient to determine the number of ovules in each ovary. 



A species which resembles in habit and flowers //. scandens (Willd.) Gilg, 

 from Queensland and New South Wales, but is at once distinguished by the 

 more linear leaves and smaller flowers, and the longer stamens with shorter 

 anthers and longer filaments. This is the first record of the genus from 

 New Guinea and adds another to the long list of genera so far considered 

 limited to Australia. The genus is also common to New Caledonia, and 

 further investigation will no doubt prove it to be widely spread in New 

 Guinea. 



GUTTIFER^E. 



HYPERICUM MUTILUM L. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 787 ; cfr. Maximowicz in Bull. Ac. 

 Sc. St. Petersburg, xi. (1881) 171. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, 7000', open marsh by ? lake. Fl. (yellow), 

 Fr. Dec. 5963. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Mt. Carstensz, Kloss; N.E.). Sumatra, 

 Java, N. Borneo, Philippines, Central and S. China; New Zealand and 

 Tasmania. Madagascar. N. and S. America. 



VIOLACE.E. 

 *ViOLA DISTANS Wall. Cat. n. 4022. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake, 7000', creeping amongst 

 grass. Fl., Fr. Dec. 5962. 



Distrib. Temperate Himalayas, Nilghiri Mts. to Ceylon. S. China. 



Flowers white, striped violet on lower lip. Drawings of the style on 

 herbarium sheets at Kew and the British Museum, including some excellent 

 dissections by the late C. B. Clarke, show complete identity with the above 

 specimens, which only differ in the so far recorded colour of the flowers 

 (violet and blue). 



BEGONIACE^E. 



SYMBEGONIA ARFAKENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 



Herba, caule erecto in sicco rufo, pilis paucis longis suberectis pubescentibus 

 onusto. Folia sessilia, oblique lanceolata vel ovata, basi uniauriculata, apice angus- 

 tata acuta, grosse serrato-dentata, supra glabra, subtus albo-punctata, in nervis 

 rufo-pubescentia. Inflorescentia terminalis, a basi ramosa, bracteis multis, latis, 

 apice obtusis, albidis. Flares d 1 sepalis 2 ; staminibus haud multis in columnain 

 gracilem connatis, supra liberis ; antheris globosis. Fructus solitarii vel bini, 

 pedicellati, 3-alati, pedunculo fructifero puberulo, alis apice divaricatis, protractis* 

 acutis, sparsim serratis. Placenta bitida. 



Hob. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, in forest by ? lake. Fl. <J , Fr. Dec. 

 6953. 



The white bracts and flowers made this plant conspicuous in the field. 



