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HALORRHAGACE.E. 



*HALORKHAGIS MICRANTHA (Thunb.) R. Br. ess Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fain. 

 Nat. i. 25. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake, 7000'. Fl. Dec. 5918. 



Distrib. India, Indo-Ohina, China, Japan ; N. Borneo, Philippines ; 

 Australia, Tasmania ; New Zealand. 



HALORRHAGIS SUFFRUTICOSA Gibb?, sp. nov. 



Plant a robusta, suffruticosa, erecta. Folia 3-4-verticillata, subsessilia, obovato- 

 lanceolata, acuta, basi in caulera decurrentia angulum satis proininentem formantia, 

 serrata, coriacea, supra glabra, nitida, subtus pilis albis sparsis adpressis inspersa, 

 demum glabrata. Inflorescentice ad apices caulis dense raceinoso-panniculatae. 

 Flares hermaphroditi, rubri, in bractearum axillis solitarii. Calyx 4-lobus, hirsutus. 

 Petala 4. Stamina 8, filamentis tenuissimis, brevibus. Ovarium 4-loculare, 

 8-costatum. Styli 4 sessiles, stigmatibus papillosis. 



Hob. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, open marsh by ? lake, 7000', abundiint. 

 Fl. (<? stage). Dec. 5555. Fl. (? stage). 5942. 



A shrubby herbaceous plant, also seen in tbe mossy forest on the crest of 

 the S.W. ridge, the single shoots 1*2 m. high, rigid from the hard texture 

 of the leaves, with hirsute stems 3 mm. thick. Leaves in crowded or 

 more remote verticels, with hard spinous teeth and tips, 2 cm. by 1 cm., 

 reticulately veined, with impressed midrib and inconspicuous cystoliths on 

 the upper surface, while on the lower the midrib is raised and covered with 

 hairs. Inflorescence spreading at the base, 11-16 by 2'5-8 cm. Flowers on 

 hirsute pedicels 1*5 mm. Sepals 1*5 mm. long, acute to acuminate. Petals 

 + 2'5 mm. long, boat-shaped, pilose on the cucullate apex, which is carinate, 

 inflexed. Anthers 1*5 mm. long; filaments +'5 mm. long. Stigma red, 

 + *5 mm. long. 



The affinity is with //. halconensis Merr., but the plant is distinguished 

 by the more robust habit, the glabrous, spinescent leaves and bracts, broader 

 inflorescence, and the hirsute calyx with shorter lobes. 



ARALIACE.E. 



SHEFFLERA (EUSHEFFLERA) ARFAKENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 



Frutex parvus ; ramuli glaberrimi, cortex (in sicco) flavescens, longitudinaliter 

 stria tus. Folia 5-digitata, glabra, longe petiolata; foliola inaequaliter petiolulata, 

 petioluli aegre alati, ad apicem articulata ; foliola obcuneata, apice obtusa, integer- 

 rima, incurvata, coriacea, nervis subtus magis prominentibus. Infloreseentiu axillaris 

 vel pseudo-terminalis, racemosa. racemi 1-4 in axillis foliorum superiorurn dispositis, 

 pedunculi pedicelli calycesque squaniulosi. Coluinna stylorum in floribus subplana, 

 in fructibus iraniaturis 5-angulata et leviter conico-elevata, apice in lobos 5 stigniaticos 

 divisa. 



Llab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, in forest by $ lake, 7000'. Fl., Fr (yg.). 

 Dec. 5621. 



