234 Faradaya. 



observation, that the leaves of the ternate form should, in shape 

 and in dimensions, be different from those of the opposite form, 

 should agree with this supposition. 



7. F. chrysoclada K. Schumann in K. Schum. u. Lau- 

 terb.. Fl. D. Schutzgeb. Sudsee, Nachtr. 370,(1905). - 

 A shrub; branchlets, cymes and petioles densely golden- 

 yellow tomentose; leaves opposite, coriaceous, obovate, 

 base cuneate, sometimes cordate, apex obtuse or subrotun- 

 date, upper side glabrous except on the nerves, lower 

 side with a dense golden-yellow texture; pairs of nerves 

 6—8; 13—18 cM. by 9—10 cM.; petioles I'/s— 2V2 cM.; 

 inflorescences terminal, cymes crowded towards the top 

 of the branchlets, the peduncles perpendicular to the 

 rhachis; rhachis 1 cM. in diam. or more; panicles 6 cM. 

 long, 10 cM. wide; calyx for V2 3-lobed, glabrous or 

 with some hairs; inner side glandular; 1.3^ — 1.5 cM.; the 

 1, 2 or 3 lobes often shortly 2-toothed; corolla glabrous, 

 tube 1.7 cM.; lobes obovate, 1.3 cM. long, 1.1 cM. broad; 

 stamens 5 — 6 cM., filaments slender, thickened near the 

 base, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube, glabrous; 

 anthers, when ripe, with nearly free cells, which are often 

 divaricating at an angle of 180° or more; style 6— 6V2 

 cM., with funnel-shaped stigma; ovary glabrous. 



Distribution: New-Guinea (Astrolabe Range). 



8. F. splendida F. v. Mueller, Fragm. phyt. V, 21 

 (1865); Bentham and v. Mueller, Fl. Austr. V, 69; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 7187; Schumann u. Lauterbach, Fl. D. Schutzgeb. 

 Sudsee, 524; Schumann u. Hollrung. Fl. Kais.-Wilh.-land, 

 122; Burck. Ann. J. bot. Btz. X. tab. VII, fig. 2. - 

 F. papuana Scheffev, Ann. Jard. bot. Buitzg., I, 42; 

 Schumann u. Lauterb., Nachtrage zur Fl. D. Sudsee, 370. — 



A shrub or little tree; sometimes climbing (Schlechter, 

 Ledermann); branchlets, inflorescences and petioles minu- 

 tely hairy, glabrescent ; leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous. 

 opposite, oblong-elliptical or subrotundate, base rounded 



