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média et in costis lateralibus et in nervulis parce liirsuta; cum glandulis basilaribus duobus 
parvis ellipticis; costae latérales utrinque lO, leviter arcuatae, parallelae, prope marginem 
inter se anastamosantes; nervuli numerosi, transversi, paralleli ; reticulatio ultima dense et 
subregularis; petiolus in laminae basi insertus, subteres, + tomentosus, 2.5 — 3 cm. longus; 
stipulae caducae, lanceolatae, fulvo-tomentosae. Inflorescentiae cf in paniculis axillaribus pauce- 
ramulosis tenuibus bracteatis quam foliis multo brevioribus dispositae; bracteae circa 2 mm. 
longae, infra ± pubescentes, tenuiter carnosae, trilobatae, lobo central! triangulari in pagina 
superiore dense glandulis polygoniis obsito. Flores cf in bractearum axillis glomerulati, minuti, 
subsessiles, obpyriformes, circa 0.5 mm. longi, glabri ; sepala 3; stamina 3, minutissima, libéra. 
Inflorescentiae 9 axillares, pedunculatae, pedunculis ad apices paucos flores subsessiles et 
congestos gerentibus ; pedunculi 3 — 7 mm. longi, teretes, gilvo-tomentosi ; calyx in diametro 
circa 3.5 mm. irregulariter 3 — 5-lobata, extus + tomentosa, intus glabrescens; ovarium sub- 
globosum, biloculare, circa 4 mm. in diametro, papillosum, papillis gilvo-tomentosis ; styli 2, 
ovarium aequantes, recurvati, extus + gilvo-tomentosi, intus irregulariter papillosi, ovarii 
loculis uniovulatis; capsula rubra longe-echinata, compresso-globosa, echinis subulatis, circa 5 
mm. longis, gilvo-tomentosis ; semina subglobosa circa 5 mm. in diametro, irregulariter cor- 
rugulata. 
Dutch New Guinea: North River near Kloofbivak, 30 m. Q. [Pulle n. 177, October 1912]; 
North River near Bivak Island. cf. [Pulle n. 132, October 1912]. 
Homalanthus A. Guss. 
Homalanthus megalanthus Gage n. sp. 
Tab. CLXXXIV. 
Arbor, circa 8 m. alta. Ramuli teretes, cinereo-nigri, 2 — 4 mm. crassi, glabri vel parce 
gilvo-pulverulenti. Folia breviter petiolata; lamina tenuiter coriacea, ovata, 2.5—5 ^^nga., 
1.5 — 3 cm. lata, apice acuto, margine subundulato hyalino, basi rotundata vel subacuta ; pagina 
superior flavo-viridis, glabro, nonnunquam parce pustulata; pagina inferior flavo-viridis, glauca, 
glabra vel parce pulverulenta ; costae latérales utrinque circa 12, leviter excurvatae, intra 
marginem anastomosantes ; nervuli transversi numerosi subparalleli ; reticulatio ultima irregu- 
lariter polygonalis ; petiolus — -1.5 cm. longus, tenuis, subteres, supra canaliculatus et glandulis 
apicalibus parvis ovatis subpeltatis obsitus; stipulae membranaceae, magnae, lanceolatae acu- 
minatae, integrae, circa 2 cm. longae, longitudinaliter nervosae. Spicae ad 10 cm. longae, 
subteretes, glabrescentes vel parce flavo-pulverulentae ; bractea minutae, transverse ovatae, 
circa i mm. latae, extus cum glandulis 2 basilaribus minutissimis ovatis. Flores monoici. 
Flores numerosi, ex bractearum axillis solitarii ; pedicelli teretes, glabri, circa 3 mm. longi; 
sepala 2, reniformia, membranacea, intégra, glabra, circa 3 mm. transverse; stamina circa 11, 
biserialia, opposita, filamentis brevissimis. Flores $ pauci ad basin spicarum dispositi pedi- 
cellati, ex bractearum basilarum axillis solitarii ; pedicelli teretes, glabri vel parce pulverulenti, 
circa 8 mm. longi; sepala 2, transverse ovata, membranacea, glabra, intégra, circa 3 mm. in 
diametro transverso; ovarium ovoideo-compressum, circa 4 mm. longum, glabrum vel + flavo- 
pulverulentam ; stylus crassus, subteres, circa 2 mm. longus; stigmata circa 5 mm. longa, 
apice recurvata. 
