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dr. n. o. forbes’s new guinea pi ants 
F agaceje. 
Quercus Junghuhnii Miq. Sogere, 1850 ft., 600. A moderate 
tree, 50 feet more or less. Flowers in yellowish-green catkins. 
Pasania (§ Eupasania ) sogerensis 8. Moore, sp. n. Arbor 
magna ; ramulis subteretibus minute griseo-pubescentibns mox gla- 
brescentibus eorticeque griseo-fusco obductis; foliis brevipetiolatis 
(pet. circa 5 mm. long.) oblongo-ovatis obtusis vel breviter cuspi- 
datis basi rotundatis nisi obtusis integris cito glabris supra griseo- 
brunneis pallidissimeque nitidis subtus subglaucis plerisque 7-0x 
3*5-5 cm. costis lat. tenuibus utrinque 6-8 pag. sup. paruin visi- 
bilibus pag. inf. eminentibus reticulo facie utravis maxime arcto 
fere modo Endiandrarum etsi obscuriore ; spicis simplicibus (anlie 
semper?) glabris verisimiliter circa usque 10 cm. long.; jiorum 
$ solum eognitorum involucro campanula to mox circa 6x4 mm. 
e squamis multiseriatis lanceolatis acuminatis sursum inter se liberis 
sistente; periantliio urceolato minute griseo-lepidote 5 mm. diam. 
hujus limbo 1*5 mm. long, brevissime lobato; stylis 3 substrictis 
induratis fere 1 mm. long. ; cupula pedicello crasso squamoso circa 
5 mm. long, insidente glabra 13 mm. alt. 25 mm. diam. hujus squamis 
inferioribus obscure zonatis omnibus late triangularibus apicibus 
liberis induratis fuscis circa 1 mm. long. ; glande 27 X 25 mm. quad- 
rante inferiori cupula immersa ovoidea apice umbone parvulo 1 mm 
long, donata in sicco lsete brunnea nitida longitrorsum striolata. 
Sogere, 3200 ft., 300. A great tree. Acorns bright green in grey 
cups. 
Nos. 354 from Mt. Meroka, a very large tree with (very early) 
dirty green inllorescences (<5 ) and 527 from Mt. Gawada, 5000 ft., a 
large tree, young involucres pale green, are indeterminable Pasanias. 
MONOCOTYLEDONS. 
By Dr. A. B. Bendle, F.E.S. 
Forbes’s Monocotyledonous plants were enumerated and described 
in 1886 by Mr. H. N. Bidley in this Journal (xxiv. p. 321, 353) ; 
but some revision has been found necessary in the light of more 
recent work. 
BURMANNIACEiE. 
Burmannia longifolia Becc. Sogere, South Cape, no number. 
Orchidaceag. 
^Oberonia iiamadryas Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1886, 322. 
Sogere, South Cape, no number. Flower white, column and lip 
orange. 
Liparis longipes Lindl. Sogere, 1800 ft., 304. 
Dendrobium (§ Cadetia) triquetrum llidl. L c. Sogere, 755. 
Flo we r s ga mboge - green. 
