232 Faradaya. 



corolla white, tube 0.5—0.7 cM.. glabrous, lobes IV2— 2 

 cM. long with sometimes fimbriate margins; stamens white, 

 inserted in the throat, glabrous, 5V-2 cM. long; style 

 slender, 5V2 cM. long, with shortly bifid stigma; ovary 

 white-hairy, 4-furrowed. 



Var. a typica H. J. Lam. nov. var. — folia basi cor- 

 data, apice obtuse acuminata, 10— H cM. longa, 8 cM. lata. 



Distribution : New-Guinea. 



Var. /3 angustifoUa H. J. Lam, nov. var. — folia basi 

 cuneata, apice acuta, 12 — 15 cM. longa, S'/s— 6 cM. lata. 



New-Guinea: Ledermann no. 13021 and 13022; Fels- 

 spitze near Kais.-Aug.-river, in the woods of the moun- 

 tains, 1400—1500 M., flow, on Aug. 20th, 1913. 



Distribution of the species: New-Guinea. 



5. F. nervosa H. J. Lam, nov. spec. — Arbor magna, 

 30 M. alta; folia elHptico-oblonga, coriacea, basi subacuta, 

 apice obtusiuscule acuminata, supra glabra, subtus glabra 

 praeter nervos (puberulos), nonnullis pihs crassis vestitos; 

 nervis utrinque 12— 15; 13Vo — 19cM. longa, 6V2— 8V2 cM. 

 lata, petiolo 173—272 cM. longo; inflorescentia ignota; 

 calycem per anthesin non videmus; corolla alba, glabra, tubo 

 brevi, 1 .7 cM. longo, cylindrico, lobis lato-rotundatis, interdum 

 bilobis, IVo^ — 2 cM. longis; stamina 4, fauce inserta, fila- 

 mentis glabris, 4 — 5 cM. longis; stylus filiformis, stigmate 

 subulato; ovarium non videmus; fructus maximus, 4 vel 

 abortu 3—1 pyrenis basi connatis, elongatis, monospermis, 

 glabris, nonnullis glandulis magnis tectis, 2 — 8 cM. longis, 

 0.6—2.5 cM. latis; calyx fructifer usque ad basin bilobus, 

 lobis minute puberuhs, acuminate bifidus, glandulis 

 magnis tectus. 



New-GuineA: Lauterbach no. 2822, Bismarck-plain, 150 

 M.; flowers (corollae) found on the soil on Sept. 9*, 1896. 



Our species, though based upon an incomplete specimen, is 

 well distinguished by its many-nerved leaves, and shows an 

 affinity with F. dimorpha, which, however, has only 5' — 7 pairs 



