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Florrs brevi pedicellate Calyx 5-lobus, lobis dentifonnibus parvis. Corolla apice 

 5-cristata, crista brevi rotundata ; tubus brevis latus fauce dense hirsute lobi tubo 

 sequilongi. Ovarium dense tomentosmn. Stylus glaber. Capsula ad ramos secundae, 

 breviter pedicellate, scaberulse. 



Leaves 75-100 mm. long or shorter, 40-45 mm. broad. Petiole 15 mm. 

 long. Peduncle 10-20 mm. long. Fruiting-branches 5'5 cm. long. 



Hob. Schouten Islands, Bosnik, Wiak, under strand trees on " korang." 

 Small plant 2 dm. high. Fl. (white), Fr. Jan. 6284. 



Collected also by Gjellerup in .1911. 



GEOPBILA RENIFORMIS Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 136 ; Schum. & Laut. 584 ; 

 Nova Guinea, viii. (1911) 485 ; Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. 

 ix. (1916) 77. 



Manokoeari, common creeping undergrowth in forest. Fl., Fr. 6181. 

 Distrib. New Guinea (D.S.W., Etna Bay, Koch-, Utakwa River, Kloss ; 

 N.E. & S.E. and adjacent islands). Cosmopolitan in Tropics. 



AMARACARPUS WICHMANNI Val., sp. nov. (A. cuneifolius Val., var., in Nova 

 Guinea, viii. (1912) 769 et (1911) 502, p.p.] 



Fruticulus ramis bilateralibus, horizontaliter expansis, ramulis haud regulariter 

 pinnatis, potius quasi dichotomis. Rami abbreviati, secus ramulos oppositi et alterni ; 

 oranes grosse rufo-villosi. Stipulce minutae, ovatae, longe 2-aristatae, rufo-hirsutae. 

 Folia subsessilia, obovato-cuneata, acuta vel obtusa, basi crasse membranacea, 

 siccando supra glaucescentia, subtus fusca, glabra, costa media prope basin cum 

 petiolo pulverulento-villosula, nervi laterales utrinque 4 cum costa prominuli, ante 

 marginem arcuatim conjuncti. Flares in apice ramorum abbreviatorum sessiles, 

 nunc 3 glomerati, bracteis et stipulis setaceis suffulti. Calyx cum ovario glabro, 

 campaniformis, lobis 4 ovatis, acutis, recurvis, ciliatis. Corolla breviter tubulosa, 

 limbo subpatulo, tubo circa aequilongo, lobis oblongis crassis, tubus circa antheras 

 fauce sessiles barbatus. Stylus corollae sequilongus. Drupa calyce parvo coronata, 

 pyrenas semiobovoideae, ventre piano, dorso profunde 3-4 sulcae tricostatae. Ramuli 

 nunc 50-300 mm. longi, brachyblastis 10-25 mm. longis dense obsessi. Folia secus 

 ramos subpersistentia, in apice ramorum abbreviatorum saepe 4-verticillata, 8-20 mm. 

 longa, 6-9 mm. lata. Flores 7 mm. longi; corolla 4'5 mm. longa. Drupaa 3-5 mm. 

 longse, pyrenae 2 '5 mm. latse. 



Hab. Manokoeari, common undershrub in forest. FL, Fr. Jan. 6185. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Wichmann). 



" Shrub, 1-1-50 m. Branches dorsiventral, symmetrical ; white flowers. 

 Also abundant at Waren up to the foot-hills of the Arfak." 



MYRMECODIA PDLVINATA Becc. Malesia, ii. 103. 



Manokoeari, epiphytic in high forest, 300'. Fl. (white)., Fr. (red). 

 Jan. 6197. 



Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Andai, Beccart). 



