Description of an unrecorded Ardisia of New 
Guinea. 
By Baron Ferp. Von Muetter, K.C.M.G., M.D., Pu.D., F.R.S., 
F.LS., &e. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 2 June, 1886.)] 
ARDISIA PORANTHEREA, F. y. M. & C. Moors. 
Glabrous ; Bech large, chartaceous, lanceolar, somewhat i- 
nate wed into a short petiole, shining on both sides, aaa 
pale Monon entire at the margin, copiously pervaded by trans- 
parent short lineoles and dots ; umbels crowded into short terminal 
flowers pentamerous ; segments of the calyx elliptical, membranous 
at the margin ; corolla pale-bluish or almost lilac-coloured, nearly 
twice as long as the calyx, its lobes about three times longer 
than the pale tube, broad-oval; filaments hardly half as long 
as the anthers; the latter yellow, from a somewhat pe obed 
base broad- Ainear gradually attenuated upwards, opening in- 
veg by two terminal confluent pores, considerably sorte 
han the corolla ; style hardly surpassing the stamens, setaceous, 
as well as the ovary glabrous. 
New Gurea.—Cultivated in the Botanic Gardens of Sydney 
by Chas. Moore, Esq., F.L.S. A large elegant plant, of seem- 
ingly climbing habit; leaves dark green, to 7 inches long an 
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aring umbel-stalks already from near the base. 
mostly twice as long as the flowers. Bracts conspicuous, 
cymbous-lanceolar, at first outside soft-hairy, soon deciduous. 
ents of the calyx about 4 inch long, densely lineolar and 
resets spotted except towards the hyaline margin. Corolla 
tender-membranous, its resinous lineoles and dots dark. brownish, 
its lobes quite blunt. Anthers about } inch lung. Stigma 
not broader than the summit of the style; fruit as yet not 
obtained. In its affinity this new approaches to A. 
rosa from Malacca and the ‘Sunda slands forming with that 
plant and with A. paludosa fro’ m Madagascar the section Mono- 
in 
resinous-glandular leaves and in racemously arranged flowers of 
smaller size from the new Papuan congener. 
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