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sometimes sessile; the whole leaf reaching 11 — 25 by 

 7—17 cM. ; main petioles 2^1^—9 cM., the petioles of 

 each pair of leaves being joined by a narrow line of hairs; 

 inflorescences terminal, paniculate, pyramidal, lax, very 

 large, 15—50 cM. long and wide; flowers small, sub- 

 sessile; calyx white-tomentose, 0.1 cM., for Vs O"^ Vs 

 5-toothed, teeth deltoid; in fruit enlarged, tube 0.2 cM., 

 lobes oblanceolate, obtuse, 0.5—1 by 0.15—0.3 cM., 

 somewhat hairy, especially near the base, 3-nerved; 

 corolla greenish white, minutely pubescent, 0.2 cM., for 

 Vs 5-lobed, lobes subequal, a fissure almost down to the 

 base of the tube between two of them; throat villous; 

 stamens 4, inserted in the throat, exserted, 1.2 cM.; 

 anthers rather broad; style slender with bifid stigma, 0.2 

 cM.; ovary glabrous, somewhat hairy at the top. 



Amboyna: Forsten, Laha, in H. L.-B. sub. no. 

 908.266-1241. 



New-Guinea: v. Romer no. 122, flow, on 7-IX-1909. — 

 Pulk no. 1-218, Kloofbivak, a tree?, ± 20 M. high, flow, 

 on 24-III-1913. — Versteeg no. 1026, N.-Dutch-N.-G., flow, 

 on 8-V-1907. — - Schlechter no. 16944, climbing, near 

 Tanebo, 450 M., flow, on 3-XII-1907 — Weinland no. 

 261, on the shore near the Bumi-estuary, near Finsch- 

 hafen, with fruits in May 1909; id. no. 164^ (or no. 46?), 

 on the shore near the Bossum-river, Finschhafen, flow, 

 in March 1890. 



New-Ireland (Neu-Mecklenburg); Peekel no. 743, 

 Namatanai, Salsal, 10 M. in alt., with fruits on 28-XI-lO; 

 id. no. 503, Namatanai, Salimun, flow, on 9-VII-1910, 

 and no. 536, same locality, flow, on 6-VIII-1910; native 

 name: harharalamas. 



New-Britain (Neu-Pommern): Schlechter no. 13737, 

 near Masawa, with flow, and fr. in Nov. 1901. 



Distribution: Buru (Oliver Forbes), Amboyna!, Saparua, 

 Aru-isl. {Hall.), New-Guinea!, New-Ireland!, New-Britain! 



