486 A. T. GAGE. EUPHORBIACEAE. 
et tenuiores, biglandulosi ; bractearum laminae 2 — 3.5 cm. longae, 3- — 11 mm. latae, nervis 
lateralibus numerosis intra margin arcuitcr anastomosantes et nervum intra-marginalem arcuatum 
formantes; saepe lobi basilares i — 2, parvi, lanceolati vel triangulares cum apice glanduloso 
adsunt. Ramuli floriferi ex bractearum axillis solitarii, brèves, 5 — 8 mm. longi, in cymulas 
nonnullas parvas congestas minute bracteolatas divisi; bracteolae triangulares circa 0.5 mm. 
longae, tomentosae, apice glanduloso. Flores Ç in cymulis centrales, flores cf in ramulis cymulae 
lateralibus. Flores cf pedicellati, pedicellis tenuibus, circa 2 mm. longis, teretibus, glabris vel 
parcissime hirsutis; calyx ovoidea, circa 2 mm. longa; sepala 5, late ovata, tenuiter coriacea, 
intégra, imbricata, utrinque glabra vel extus parce et minute hirsuta ; sepala 2 interiora quam 
exterioribus minora; discus conicus truncatus, subcarnosus, columnam staminalem omnino 
occultans, antheris coronatus; columna staminalis tenuis, glabra, teres, circa 0.5 mm. longa, 
supra discum conicum breviter bifida; connectiva brevissima, lata; antherae 2 arcte oppositae ; 
loculi 4, subglobosi minuti ad peripheriam connectivae positi. Flores 9 brevissime pedicellati; 
calyx circa 3 mm. longa aliter flori masculo similis; discus O; ovarium glabrum trilobatum, 
circa 1.5 mm. crassum et i mm. longum, lobis rotundatis; stylus crassus, trigonus, angulis 
rotundatis, circa i mm. longus, apice abtuso cum apertura triangulari ; ovarii loculi 3, uniovulati ; 
ovula suspensa. Fructus maturus non visus. 
Dutch New Guinea : Nortb River near Bivak Island. [Pulle, n. 48, September 1912]. 
I attribute this plant with some hésitation to the genus Oniphalea. The arrangement 
of the anthers départs from the typical pileiform mass, but on the other hand the foliose 
bracts and the gênerai habit of the plant point to its being an OinpJialea. 
? Botryophora Hook.f. 
? Botryophora sp. 
Dutch New Guinea: North River near Kloof bivak. 30 m. [Pulle n. 230, October 191 2]. 
I place very tentatively in Botryophora this curious plant, which is in maie flower 
only and mostly only in bud. There is the same curious mass of stamens peltately attached 
to a central pistillode looking réceptacle, as Hooker describes in Botryophora, only in this 
case the stamens do not imbricata. 
