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Finschia Warburg 
(Emended description) 
Flowers hermaphroditic. Petals (perianth seg- 
ments) curved and united in the bud stage, 
soon free. Anthers sessile or nearly so within 
the concave laminae or tips of the petals, con- 
nective broad, not produced beyond the anther 
cells, anther cells slightly divergent towards the 
base. Torus oblique. Hypogynous gland fleshy, 
entire, horseshoe-shaped or nearly annular; ovary 
stipitate, style slender or narrowly clavate, 
usually long and protruding from the split on 
the lower side of the perianth tube in the later 
bud stage. Fruit an indehiscent drupe; exocarp 
thin, fleshy; endocarp bony, rough; cotyledons 
2, thick and fleshy and filling the seed. Trees, 
trunk buttressed, often raised on stilt roots. 
Leaves entire. Inflorescence racemose, racemes 
axillary or on the older wood below the leaves. 
Type species: F. rufa Warb. ( 1891 : 297 ) . 
Four species in the rain forests of Micronesia 
(Caroline Islands), New Guinea, Solomon 
Islands, and the New Hebrides. 
Key to the Species 
Leaves densely rufous- or ferruginous -pubes- 
cent beneath. 
Leaves 28-35 cm. long, 11-13 (to 17) 
cm. wide; inflorescence to 40 cm. 
long 1. F. rufa 
Leaves 18-25 (to 28) cm. long, 6-9 cm. 
broad; inflorescence 24-26 cm. long 
2. F. Carrii 
Leaves glabrous. 
Flowers very densely ferruginous-pubes- 
cent; fruit globose, not laterally com- 
pressed, over 4 cm. diam. 
3. F. ferruginiflora 
Flowers thinly ferruginous-pubescent in 
the bud stage, almost glabrous when 
fully developed; fruit laterally com- 
pressed, not above 4 cm. diam 
4. F. chloroxantha 
In the following account of the species the 
letters B.S.I.P. and N.G.F., preceding the col- 
lectors’ numbers, stand for British Solomon 
Islands Protectorate and New Guinea Forests, 
respectively. The first precedes all specimens 
collected in the Solomon Islands by F. S. Walker 
and myself in 1945-1946 and the latter those 
made in New Guinea under the direction of 
Major J. B. McAdam, C.R.E., New Guinea 
Forests, by officers and men of his unit head- 
quarters and two associated forest survey com- 
panies. 
1. Finschia rufa Warburg (1891: 298) 
Grevillea rufa (Warburg) Sleumer (1939: 
128). 
Tree. Leaves large, coriaceous, shortly petio- 
late, apex obtuse or rotundate, base acuminate, 
entire, adult leaves glabrous above, the midrib 
and main nerves rather prominent, rufous- or 
ferruginous-tomentose beneath, the midrib, lat- 
eral nerves, and the veins very prominent, lateral 
nerves about 20 on each side of the midrib, not 
markedly curved, joined below the margin and 
united with an intramarginal vein close to the 
edge; blade 25-35 cm. long, 11-13 (to 17) cm. 
wide; petiole 2 cm. long. Racemes 17-40 cm. 
long; rachis, pedicels, and flowers densely clothed 
with red-brown hairs (rufous-villous). Flowers 
solitary or in pairs, pedicels 1 mm. long; petals 
( perianth segments ) about 1 cm. long, glabrous 
on the inner face; ovary stipitate, seated ob- 
liquely on a 3 -mm. long stipes, style 7 mm. long; 
torus oblique, hypogynous gland annular or 
nearly so. Fruit unknown. 
Northeast New Guinea: Only known from 
the neighbourhood of Sattelberg where, accord- 
ing to Sleumer, loc. cit it has been collected 
several times. {Warburg 20496, type: Hellwig 
531 , Clemens 2234 and 8094 A.) 
Unfortunately I have not seen specimens and 
the above description is drawn from that of 
the author’s original and from the few notes in 
Sleumer’s key. According to Warburg, the 
pedicels are only 1 mm. long, which would 
give the inflorescence almost a spicate appear- 
ance which, apart from the larger leaves, should 
distinguish it from the next species. 
2. Finschia Carrii (Sleumer) C. T. White 
comb . nov. 
Grevillea Carrii Sleumer (1939: 128). 
Tree, about 12 m. high, branchlets densely 
