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DICOTYLEDONEJE. 

 CASUARINACE.E. 

 CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA Forst. Char. Gen. PI. Aust. 103, fig. 52. 



VVariap, near, on a stony and open inundation area of the Momi River. 

 Fr. Dec. 6126. 



Jjistrib. N.E. & S.E. New Guinea and adjacent islands. Solomon and 

 Marianne Islands, Polynesia, N.E. Australia, Malaya, India to E. Africa. 



PIPERACE.E. (C. DE CANDOLLE.) 

 PIPER BOSNICANUM C. DC., sp. nov. 



liamulis glabris laevibus ; foliis sat longe petiolatis glabris, limbo ovato-rotundato 

 basi ima aequilatera acuto apice breviter et obtusiuscule acuminate, o-nervio, petiolo 

 basi ima vaginante ; pedunculo glabro quam petiolus breviore, spica inatura quani 

 limbus pluries breviore, rhachi hirsuta, bracteae glabra? pelta rotunda centre pedi- 

 cellata, ovario libero rotundato glabro, stigniatibus ovatis brevibus, bacca ovatae 

 glabrse stipite duo pluries longiore. 



Hab. Schouten Islands, Wiak, Bosnik. Fl., Fr. 6277. 



Dioicum, in arboribus scandens. Kamuli spiciferi 2 mm. crassi, collenchyma in 

 fascicules discretes dispositum et haud libriforme, fasciculi intramedullares 1-seriati, 

 canalis lysigenus ventralis perphericique plures. Lirnbi in sicco formi pellucido- 

 punctulati, usqua ad 10 cm. longi et 7 cm. lati. Petioli 1'5 cm., pedunculi 1 cm. 

 longi. Spica matura 2 cm. longa, bractese pelta 1 mm. diain. Stigmata 3 sessilia, 

 bacca in vivo aurantiaca in sicco nigra 7 mm. longa et 5 mm. crassa. Species primo 

 udspectu P. buruanum, Miq. referens. 



PIPER FORBTENII C. DC. in Prodr. xvi. i. 348 ; Scheffer in Ann. Jard. Buit. 

 i. (1876) 50 ; Nova Guinea, viii. (1914) 1007. 



Roon Island, ridge beyond Djende, 300', scandent in forest. Fl., ? . Jan. 

 6233. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Dore, Teysmann ; D.S.W., near Alkmaar, 

 van Roemer). Amboina, Halmaheira, Philippines. 



Liane, climbing up trunks of trees, with huge leaves and pendent yellow 

 spikes, 4 dm. long and 3 cm. thick. Also abundant in the high forest 

 round Manokoeari, but only seen there in sterile condition. 



PIPER BIPUNCTATDM C. DC., sp. nov. 



Kamulis glabris ; foliis breviter petiolatis, limbo elliptico-lanceolato basi aequi- 

 latera acuto apice acuta, et sat longe acuminato supra glabro subtus puberulo, 

 5-plinervio nervo centrali nervum adscendentem utrinque opposita vel alterne mittente 

 quorum supremus a 2-2'5 cm. supra basin solutus, nervo laterali adscendente utrinque 

 a basi soluto, petiolo puberulo basi ima vaginante ; pedunculo fere glabro petiolum 

 superante, spica subflorente quam limbus pluries hreviore, rhacbi hirsuta, bracteae 

 glabrse pelta rotunda centre pedicellata, starninibus 2, antheris ovatis 4-valvatis 

 quam filamenta oblonga pluries brevioribus. 



Hab. Schouten Islands, Wiak, Bosnik (coral), in clearings. Fl. Jan. 

 5709. 



