236 HOSEA. 



Lauterbach, Nachtrage I.e. gives only F. papuana. In his 

 Flora D. SUdsee he expressed the opinion that F. splendida 

 and F. papuana should be identical. Probably by mistake, the 

 author of F. splendida was mentioned as K. Schumann. In that 

 case the F. papuana should be the older one; and this is 

 probably the reason why Lauterbach mentioned only F. papuana 

 in the Nachtrage, in the supposition, that this was the older 

 species. As F. splendida, however, is named by F. v. Mueller 

 in 1865, this name should be retained. 



9. F. ternifolia F. v. Mueller, Descr. notes on pap. 

 plants, VIII, 46, (1886). — A climbing shrub; leaves 

 ternate, sometimes subopposite, oblong-lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, subchartaceous, lower side with few or without 

 glands; petioles short; inflorescences shorter than the 

 leaves, pedicels very short; calyx small, in the bud pear- 

 shaped, shortly acuminate, 2-lobed; corolla minutely 

 puberulous; stamens inserted near the base of the corolla- 

 tube: filaments densely villous at their base; ovary 

 4-furrowed, minutely pubescent. 



Distribution: Southern New-Guinea. 



Its affinity is with F. splendida and F. Albertisii, but its 

 leaves are not narrower above the middle than beneath it, and 

 its calyx is much shorter. 



It has a general resemblance with F. Vitiensis, from the 

 Fitchi'Islands. 



XX. HOSEA Ridley in Journ. As. Soc. Straits 50, 

 124. (1908). — Climbing shrubs; leaves opposite, petioled, 

 simple, the upper ones of each branchlet reddened; cymes 

 long peduncled, axillary from the axils of the upper leaves, 

 spreading, dichotomously branched; calyx campanulate, 

 spathaceous, bilobed, lobes ovate; coro//a-tube slender, long; 

 limb 4-lobed, 3 lobes obovate, 1 linear, oblong; stamens 

 4, filaments far extruded, anthers rounded; style as long 

 as the stamens, stigma lanceolate; ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled, 



