NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, 828 
with very minute hairlets; anthers much longer than the filaments, 
their setule not much shorter than the cells; fruit almost ovate- 
ellipsoid, three-valved, outside slightly rough. 
On Mount Yule, near its summit. Leaves 2-8 in. long, some- 
Sloanea Forbesii. — Branchlets tomentellous; leaves con- 
spicuously petiolate, almost ovate or verging into a roundish form, 
ightl at the margin, particularly blunt at the base, soon 
almost glabrous on the surface, puberulous beneath; flowers few or 
several, or occasionally only two together ; involucellar bracts very 
narrow, 8 or less, or absent; sepals 4 or 5, lanceolar on both sides 
as well as the peduncles, and pedicels velvety; petals somewhat 
longer than the sepals, crenate-incised at the summit, subile- 
velutinous, particularly outside; stamens 25-80, beset with minute 
hairlets throughout; anther-cells scarcely longer than the filaments, 
the terminal setule hardly shorter ; style rather long, downward, as 
well as the ovulary velutinellous. 
Sogere, at 1500-5000 ft. elevation; H. O. Forbes (278). 
Leaves to 6 in. long and to 4 in. broad, brittle. Pedicels to 
nearly 1 in. long, or variously shorter. Length of sepals hardly 3 in. 
On specimens of Sloanea Schumanni, or of some allied species 
occur stipules renate-cordate in form, 1-3 in. broad, bent down 
