200 



punctata scabra, 40 cm. longa, 18 cm. lata, petiolo 12 cm. longo. Stipules persis- 

 tentes lanceolatse acuminatae hirtse, 2 cm. longie vel ultra. Syncarpia rubra globosa 

 2 cm. crassa (in sicco) parce hirta, bracteis 2 lanceolatis acutis dissitis in dorso. 

 Bracteee basales nullae. Pedunculus '5-1 cm. longus bracteatus. Bractece ad 

 ostiolum lanceolatse acuminatse hirtse, plures erectae. Flores masculi ad ostiolum 

 monandri, pedicellati, sepala 4 lanceolata subacuta, anthera reniformi magna trail s- 

 versiin biloba. Feminei plerumque longe pedicellati, pistillo oblongo, stylo lateral!. 



Hab. Humboldt Bay, ridge behind " kampong." Fr. Jan. 6260. 



A specimen of what appears also to be this species is in Herb. Brit. Mus. 

 labelled " Java, Straits of Sunda J(oseph) B(anks)." 



I cannot match this fig with anything yet described. It seems in some 

 points to be most nearly allied to F. Beccarii, but the fruits in this and its 

 allies are all borne on separate branches. The persistent and large stipules 

 are peculiar. The leaf, which is large, has just the texture and scabrid feel, 

 as well as the whitish dottings, of Conocephalus. The only figs seen contained 

 male flowers and gall flowers, some of which have, like the male flowers, 

 long stalks, while others are almost sessile. 



URTICACE.E. 

 LAPOKTEA ARMATA Warb. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiii. (1891) 293 ; Schum. 



& Laut. 289. 



Manokoeari, undergrowth, in high forest, on "korang," gregarious in 

 damp places, 500'. FL, <$ ? . 6186. 



Distrib. N.E. New Guinea. 



These plants, with herbaceous slender stems, 1-2 m. high, very stinging 

 leaves, grey in colour, and green flowers, formed a colony in a small soak 

 area on the top of the forest ridge which rises behind Manokoeari. As 

 Warburg's description only covers the ? plant, that of the c? is appended. 

 Inflorescence 2'5 cm. long, branched, with peduncle 7 cm. long. Flowers 

 arranged in small sessile glomerules, 2 mm. across, on the secondary branches 

 of the rhachis, composed of more numerous flowers than the $ , which 

 are mostly single in my specimens. Perianth 4-partite, 1'5 mm. across, 

 with lanceolate-acute segments, 1'5 mm. in length, covered with a few scat- 

 tered white hairs. 



FLEURYA RUDERALIS (Forst.) Gaud. Voy. Uranie, 497 ; Schum. & Laut. 

 291 ; Scheffer in Ann. Jard. Buit. i. (1876) 48 ; F,Muell. Pap. PI. 

 41,59. 



Schouten Islands, Wiak, Bosnik, under trees by sea-shore. Fr. Jan. 

 6279. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Teysmann ; N.E. ; S.E.). Java, Marshall 

 and Solomon Islands, Ellice and Union Group ; Tahiti. 

 Herbaceous, with pink stems and white flowers. 



