DR. IT. O. FORBESES NEW GUINEA PLANTS 
only in bud) white in panicles, rhachis and pedicels covered with 
brownish red-pubescence. 
Memecilon conocarpa Laut. & K. Sebum, ex descript. Sogere, 
407. 
Samydaceje. 
Casearia sogerensis Bak. lil., sp. n. Arbor ; ramulis pubescen- 
tibus ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis apice acuminatis apice ipso obtusis 
basi truncatis vel late cuneatis subtus pubescentibus nervis lateralibus 
prominentibus arcuatis utrinque 8-10, lamina 18-20 cm. longa, 
6-7*5 cm. lata, petiolis 3-4 mm. longis; foribus axillaribus viridibus 
pedicellatis; calyce pentamero in toto +5 mm. longo, lobis ovato- 
lanceolatis ; staminibus 10 filamentis pubescentibus ; anther is parvis ; 
fractu pallide viridi purpureo-maculato + 2*5 mm. longo angulato. 
Sogere, 2000 ft., 377. Tree ; flowers greenish white ; fruit pale 
green ; purplish markings on flowers and fruit. Allied to C. cinerea 
Turcz. and C. contermina Miq. 
BEGONIACEJ3. 
Begonia sogerensis Ridley in Journ. Bot. lii. 289 (1914). 
Sogere, 157, 261, 444. Mt. Meroka, 890. Flowers white or greenish 
white. 
Araliaceje. 
Sciiefflera Forbesii Ridley, op. cit. 290. Sogere, Mt. Wori- 
wori, 5000 ft., 297. Moderate tree ; flowers purple-pink. 
S. bractescens Ridley, I. c. Sogere, 2500 ft., 47. Small tree. 
Sogere, 300 ft., 115. 
Polyscias Forbesii Bak. fib, sp. n. Species ad _P. nodosam Seem, 
accedens. Arbor (?) foliis elongatis glabris 40-50 cm. longis 
multijugis, foliolis numerosis lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis mar- 
gine crenato-serratis apicem versus attenuatis apice ipso obtusis basi 
late cuneatis petiolulatis, lamina 8-10*5 cm. longa, 16-20 mm. lata, 
petiolulis 3-4 mm. longis; inflorescentia 16-20 cm. longa foliis sub- 
duplo breviore, umbellulis racemosis numerosis ramis lateralibus 17- 
19 mm. longis; floribus ignotis; umbellularum pedicellis 7-12 
strictis puberulis 4-5 mm. longis; fructu 3-loculari in sicco nigres- 
cente subgloboso 3-4 mm. diam., stylis 3 distinctis demum recurvo- 
patentibus. 
Sogere, 452. 
Eschweileria sessiliflora, comb. nov. ( ddoerlajiodendron 
sessiliflorum Laut.). Mt. Gawada, 4500 ft., 581. Tall tree; fruit 
from green to lake-purple. 
E. novoguineensis Boerlage. Sogere, 915. Meroka Mt., 2500 ft., 
20 . 
Leaves palmate, apparently 7-lobed ; fruit broadly ovoid, glabrous, 
9-10-celled, ribbed, pedicels 10-14 mm. long. Differs from E. Lau- 
terbachii Harms in the umbel not being subracemose. 
Eschweileria gawadensis Bak. fib, sp. n. Arbor vel frut ex ? ; 
ramis cortice lutescente obtectis; stipulis acutis; foliis papy- 
raceis heteromorphis, lamina 20-27 cm. longa et lata saspius pal- 
matim profunde 3-5-lobata, lobis apice acuminatis margine serratis, 
petiolo superne canaliculato 15-17 cm. longo; umbellis compo- 
