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STYPHELIA TROCHOCARPOIDES F. Muell. Pap. PL i. 107. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest patch by ? lake, 7000'. Fr. 

 Dec. 5583. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., near Hatam, Beccari}. 



The specimen seen is only in fruit, but I have no doubt that the 

 determination is right. 



Small tree, flowers white, berries black. 



ERICACEAE. (J. J. SMITH.) 



The number of Ericaceae amounts to 17, representing 14 species, viz. 

 6 Rhododendron (2 new), 1 Diplycosia (new), and 7 Vaccinium, of which 

 4 are new, whereas the remaining 3 are forms or varieties of previously 

 described species. 



RHODODENDRON UNDULATICALYX J. J. S., sp. nov. 



Frutex, innovation ibus c. 5 cm. longis, inferne nonnullis cicatricibus foliorum 

 rudimentarium instructis, ramulis teretibus, glabrescentibus. Folia c. 3-4 spurie 

 verticillata, petiolata, obovata et elliptica, obtusiuscule vel acute acutata, obtusa vel 

 rotundata, basi acuta vel obtusiuscula, brevissime in petiolum acuminata integerrima, 

 supra sparse lepidota et basi minute puberula glabrescentia, subtus sicco pallida den- 

 sius sparse minute lepidota, in utraque parte costse mediae subtus obtuse prominentis 

 nervis lateralibus c. 7 patentibus satis irregularibus intiu marginem anastomosantibus 

 tenuibus sicco supra subtusque prominulis, venis supra subtusque partim prominulis, 

 coriacea, c. 3'6-5'7 cm. longa, 2-2'8 cm. lata ; petiolus subsemiteres, minute puberulus 

 et parce lepidotus, c. 0'6-0'8 cm. longus. Inflorescentice c. 5-florte, rhachide breviter 

 conica. SraotetS (1 adest) lineares, apice paulo dilatatse serratajque, acuta;, ciliolata?, 

 c. 1*3 cm. longse. Flores mediocres, pedicello tenui, tereti, minute puberulo et parce 

 minute lepidoto, bene 1 cm. longo. Calyx valde undulatus, obliquus, subquinque- 

 lobulatus, ciliolatus, c. 0'275 cm. diam. Corolla oblique hypocrateriformis, curvata, 

 5-loba, extus glabra, non lepidota, intus in tubo puberula, explanata c. 3'25 cm. longa, 

 limbo 2'85 cm. lata, tubo obliquo c. T6-2-15 cm. longo, 1 cm. lato, lobis ovalibus vel 

 plus minusve obovatis, 4 obliquis, 1 recto, rotundatis, c. O'9-l cm. longis, 0'63-O8 cm. 

 latis. Stamina 10, c. 2'37-2'73 cm. longa; filamentum lineare, fere f partibus 

 inferioribus parcius hirtello-puberulum ; anthem doi-sifixa, oblonga, basi retusa, apice 

 oblique truncata, thecis antice sulco separatis poro introrso obliquo subsemirotundo 

 hiantibus, c. 0-225 cm. longa. Ovarium subfusiformi-conicum, 10 sulcatum, erecto- 

 patenter villosulum, c. 0'4 cm. longum ; stylus filiformis, teres, ima basi tantum 

 pilosus, apice in stigma capitatum manicatum incrassatus, c. 1'9 cm. longus. Discus 

 annularis, 10-dentatus, pubescens, inferne glaber, c. 0'175 cm. diam. 



[lab. Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest patch by ? lake, 7000'. 

 Fl. Dec. 5549. 



Very near Eli. angiense J. J. S., but differing in the downy pedicels, 

 undulate calyx, non-lepidote corolla : from Rh. arfakianum Becc., which 

 also has a glabrous corolla, in the corolla-lobes not being twice as long as 

 the tube and the separated non-ovate anthers. 



A shrub with pink flowers, 



