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ON THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OF NEW 
GUINEA COLLECTED BY MR. H. 0. FORBES. 
By H. N. Rovtey, M.A., F.L.S. 
(Puates 270 & 271). 
s with much regret that we hear of Mr. Forbes’ failure, 
from lack of funds, to accomplish the much-desired explorations of 
Central New Guinea 
the Owen Stanley range of mountains in 
ew countries have proved so difficnlt of iMate from natural 
causes as New Guinea. The forests are of unusual thickness and 
impenetrability, ind the whole island is cut of fas precipitous 
mountains and valleys, difficult and tedious to cross. 
were the expenses consequent upon this, to which was added the 
loss of a considerable portion of the collecting apparatus by the 
foundering of a small vessel which was conveying it, that Mr. 
Forbes, after building a winter camp and 2 sired everything for 
the expedition, had to dismiss his men and return to Australia, 
having spent all the money ajialiad to him by the Australian and 
English Goverumen ta, together with a considerable sum from his 
own private resources. It is hoped that he may ere long make 
another attempt to ade this entirely unknown region, and 
that with the success that has attended his former expeditions in 
Sumatra, Timor, and other little-known islands of the Malayan 
Archipelago. In spite of the fact that the already received al 
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I’. pungens, which also occurs in the collection, oe i ae upon a 
plant obtained in Ceram, and has also been found in Australia; 
JOURNAL oF fo a 24, [Nov., 1886.] . 
