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DR. IT. O. FORBES’S NEW GUINEA PLANTS 
ZlNGTBERACEiE. 
Curcuma sp. Sogere, 1050 ft., 244. Erect herb. Flowers bright 
orange in purple spathes. 
This specimen was formerly assigned (Ridl. 1. c. 356) to C. aro- 
watica L., but Mr. Ridley agrees with me that it does not represent 
that species. It is about 5 dm. high, and bears a pair of long- 
stalked leaves with base tapering into the petiole, the blade 22-25 cm. 
by 9-13 cm., between which springs a rather dense flower-spike, 
11 cm. long, excluding the stalk, by 3 5 cm., greatest width. The 
spike is lanceolate in outline, with a very blunt apex. The upper 
bracts still show the purple colour in their upper halves. The flowers 
have dropped. 
Rie delta decurva Valet, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. lii. 77 (1914). 
Alpinia decurva Ridl. 1. c . 357. Sogere, 2000-2800 ft., 41, 53, 57, 
229, 231, 253. 
R. affinis K. Schum. in Pflanzenreich, iv. 46, 373 (1904). 
A. affinis Ridl. 1. c. Sogere, 2500 ft., 2, 58. 
Costus speciosus Sm. var. iiirsuta Bl. Sogere, Korkoko 
Range, 2500 ft., 797. 
Tapeinochilus pubescens Ridl. 1. c. 356. Sogere, 3000 ft., 
143 b 144 a. 
T. pungens Miquel. Sogere, 3000 ft., 142, 143 a, 144, 145. 
Marantaceje. 
Don ax c ANNJ3FORMI9 K. Schum. Clinogyne grand is Benth, 
(Ridl. 1. c. 357). Sogere, river-side, 1750 ft., 683. 
Piirynium aff. pedunculato Warb. Sogere, 326. Flowers too 
young for determination. 
DlOSCOREACEiE. 
Pioscorea pentaphylla Lam. Sogere, Meroka Mts., 2500 ft., 
888 . 
LlLIACEiE. 
Smtlax. Three species are represented in the collection. One 
(Sogere, 2500 ft., 178, 189) was determined by Mr. Ridley (/. c. 358) 
as S. leucophylla BL, but is probably not that species ; the specimen 
is in very young fruit. A second, bearing fruit (Sogere, 2500 ft., 63, 
334, 338), is perhaps S. papuana Lauterb. (in Engl. Jahrb. 1. 300), 
which is described from a male specimen only. A third (Sogere, 
1700-2500 ft., 70, 214, 263) is also represented by fruit only. 
Dracjena angustifolia Roxb. Sogere, 2000 ft., 274, 754. 
Cordyline termtnalis Kunth. Sogere, 2000 ft., 18. Fruiting 
specimen. 
C. angustissima K. Schum. in Nachtr. FI. deutsch. Schutzgeb. 
Siidsee 63 (1905). A specimen without flowers from Sogere, 3000 ft., 
no. 177, perhaps belongs to this species. It is an erect shrub with 
scarlet fruit and long narrow leaves rather wider than in the type, 
to 12 mm. broad. 
