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ae Tages OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA. 
need the Bulletin (1897, p. 112), Sir William 
Macürague te a small collection of dried plants, — b 
Mr. iulianetti on Mount Scratchley. e has since pre- 
sented zortio collection made by the same rer and 
Mr. A. C. English, chiefly in the Vanapa Valley and the Wharton 
nge. 
The collection from Mount Scratchley consists of about 120 
species of flowering plants, nine species of, ferns, one Zsoetes, 
2 i i i 8 8 ,900 
x seed of vascular plants (flowering-plants and ferns) have already 
been recorded from New Guinea, this collection is numerically 
small ; pen n Tap great altitude at ipis most of the plants 
were found, it a highly LN one; and it contains a 
relatively large n radiber of novelties. It is i trn that only two 
new generic types are insluded. among them ; but many generic 
novelties were not expected from such elevat tions, where the 
vegetation is of an alpine or ipea character, 'and largely 
composed of genera having a wide ran 
Beginning with the cellular eryptogams, the lichens are only 
represented by quite common species. ‘There are two new species 
—T'rachylejeunia Giulianettii and Cololejeunea hirta—among the 
liverworts. On the other hand, nearly half of the mosses are new. 
They belong mostly to genera characteristic of humid mountainous 
regions within the tropics. Two out of the nine ferns are new, 
as well as one of the four Selagine llacew—Isoetes neoguineensis, 
As will be seen from the following enumeration, the flowering 
wn to exist elsewhere. Better specimens of many of the 
undetermined eee would doubiless considerably augment the 
number fs described. 
The smaller Vatiitin Valley and Wharton Range collection, 
iive“ in 1898, includes a remarkable new species Elwo- 
carpus-—E. aberrans—and a new species of Triplostegia, a small 
genus of the Dipsacex, previously only known to inhabit the 
mountains of Northern India and Western China. There is also 
a considerable number of specimens of Veronica, which have all 
been Enge referred to V. Lendenfeldit, but it is possible 
that m an one species is concerned. It is an instance of one 
very ee en, or several very closely allied species. Ferns 
relatively numerous, and, though there are two new species 
of Davallia, they are mostly common Malayan types. One of 
these, D. lanceolata, differs widely from all previously described 
Species, in having small lanceolate fronds two to four inches 
lon 
In dealing with a fragment of a flora it is not safe to generalise ; 
pat apart from the fact that most of the endemic species belong 
wide distribution, their affinities are with those 
inh bine the mountains of Celebes and Borneo. Indeed, some 
of the species are identical, and not known beyond the Archi- 
pelago ; whilst others, endemic respectively in, say, Kinabalu, 
rneo, and Mount Scratchley, British New Guinea, are very 
closely allied. Specially interesting among the new plants of this 
