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C A M P A N U L A C E 2E. 



LOBELIA (!SOLOBUS) ARFAKENSIS Gibhs, sp. nov. 



Planta pusilla, a basi crebro mmosa, humifusa, caules repentes, tota planta albo- 

 pilosa. Folia parva, petiolata, orbicularia, regulariter grossedentata. Flores 

 axillares, longe pedieellati. Calyx laciniis linearibus, acutis, tubum sequantibus. 

 Corolla quam lacinise calycinae triple longior, laciniis anguste linearibus supenoribus 

 erectis, a basi partitis, inferioribus trilobis. Stamina lobis corollse brevioribus, 

 anterioribus albo-barbatis, filamenta fere usque ad basin coalita. 



Hal. Arfak Mts., S.W. ridge, just above the ? lake, 8000'. FI., Fr. 

 Dec. 6117. 



A tiny plant of Pratia habit, spreading on the ground where open 

 between shrubs, with white flowers tinted mauve on the outside. Leaves 

 4 by 5 mm., with deltoid teeth 1 cm. long. Petioles 2 mm. long. Flower 

 8 mm. long. Pedicels + 1-1'2 cm. long. Calyx '5 mm. long. Corolla 

 6 mm. long. Stamens 5 mm. long, anthers + 1 mm. Capsule 6-7 bv 

 4 mm. 



The only species known in this section in Malaya is L. radicans Bl., 

 a much larger and quite glabrous plant. 



GOODENIACE fc. 



SC^VOLA LAUTERBACHIANA Krause in Pflanzenreich, iv. 277 (1912) 1112. . 



Arfak Mts., Angi hikes, edge of forest by ? lake, 7000'. FL, Fr. (yg.). 

 5742. 



Distrib. N.E. New Guinea. 



A scrambler with yellow flowers, striped with dark veins, occurring 

 massed in the open. Evidently an extremely variable plant in the shape 

 of the leaves and extent of the tomentum on the peduncle, corolla, and ovary. 

 The above specimens are glabrous, the leaves broadly ovate and irregularly 

 dentate, a character also shown in the type-specimen (Schlechter, 14446, 

 Herb. Kew.). The corolla is sparsely pilose on the outer surface and barbate 

 on the veins to the base of the lobes on the inner ; the style is also markedly 

 shorter than in the type. 



COMPOSITE. (S. MOORE.) 



BIDENS BIPINNATA L. Gen. PL ed. 1, n. 641 ; Nova Guinea, viii. (1910; . 

 337. 



Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, abundant in open marsh by 2 lake, 7000'. 

 Fl., Fr. Dec. 5562. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Merauke, Versteeg). Wide in tropics 

 and recorded from Europe, 



