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both sides as are petioles, pairs of nerves 6— 9(— 10); 

 11^17-23 by 4V2-10-13cM.; petioles 17^-372-573 

 cM.; apex 1—2 cM.; cymes axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves, reaching 3V2 cM. without the flowers; calyx 

 glabrous, adult cleft up to the middle; lobes 2, acuminate; 

 2—272 cM. long; pedicels 0.5 — 1 cM.; corolla with long 

 slender tube, funnel-shaped towards the top, glabrous, 

 inner side with papillose hairs near the insertion of the 

 stamens; tube 3—372 cM., lobes broadly ovate, rounded, 

 2 cM. long, P/a cM. broad; stamens didynamous, 2 being 

 inserted near the base of the corolla-tube and 2 in the 

 middle part of it; filaments of the longer pair 5—6, that 

 of the shorter one 47s — 5 cM. long, hairy at the base 

 (hairs short and thick); style slender, glabrous, with very 

 shortly bifid stigma, 6— 6V2 cM.; ovary 4-furrowed, 

 densely hairy. 



New-Guinea : Versteeg no. 1075, Dutch-N.-G., flow, 

 on May 12*, 1907 — v. Romer no. 284, Dutch-N.-G. 

 with buds on Sept. 15th, 1909. 



Distribution: tropical Australia (f. MuelL), New-Guinea! 



4. F. parviflora Warburg, in Engl. Jhrb. XVIII, 208, 

 (1894); Schumann u. Lautecbach, Fl. D. Schutzgeb. Siidsee, 

 524. — A climbing shrub; branchlets, cymes and petioles 

 sparsely minutely hairy, glabrescent, 3-ribbed towards the 

 top; leaves ternate, ovate, base cordate or cuneate, apex 

 obtusely acuminate or acute, chartaceous, pairs of nerves 

 4 — 6; base 3-nerved, the lower pair of nerves reaching 

 the middle of the leaf; some glands in the axils of and 

 beneath the lower pair of nerves; both sides glabrous, shining, 

 the nerves minutely pubescent beneath; 10—15 by 372 — 8 

 cM.; petioles 2—3 cM.; cymes axillary, forming a large 

 terminal inflorescence, with narrow, foliaceous, 2—4 cM. 

 long bracts; main peduncle 12— 16 cM., smaller peduncles 

 (of cymes) 2—4 cM. long; pedicels 0.5 cM.; calyx gla- 

 brous, 1 cM., for 73 or 72 2—3 "lobed, lobes obtuse; 



