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DR. H. O. FORBES’S NEW GUINEA. PLANTS 
Freycinetia sogerensis Rendle, sp. n. Frutex scandens vel 
ascendens, ramo 6 mm. crass, in sicco nitente, internodiis 7-11 mm. 
long. ; foliis ascendentibus, subflexuosis, submembranaceis, anguste 
lineari-lanceolatis 2*5-3 dm. long. 9-13 mm. lat. superne sensim 
attennatis inferne ad basin amplectentem paullo angustatis; auriculis 
2*5-3 cm. long, cito in fibras solutis ; lamince marginibus in parte 
inferiore et snb apice sparsius denticulato-spinulosis, costa media 
supra impressa infra prominente et sparse spinulosa; spadicibus 
foe mine is ternis in apice ramulorum brevium, pedicellis ad 1*5 cm. 
long, snbangulatis plus minus spinuloso-rugosis ; syncarpiis imma- 
turis elliptico-oblongis 1-1*4 cm. long. 8-10 mm. crass., pistillis 3 mm. 
longis apice subconicale annulo pallidiore coronato, stigmatis ssepius 
2-4, interdum 5. 
Sogere, 2500 ft., 75. Climbing or ascending shrub, fruit green. 
From the description apparently closely allied to a New Pome¬ 
ranian species, Freycinetia nova-pomeranica Martelli, which differs 
among other points in having smooth pedicels to the syncarps. 
ArACE2E. 
Epipremnum magnificum Engler. Sogere, 2000 ft., 128, 828. 
Fruit green to orange and scarlet. 
Raphidophora Forbesii Rendle, sp. n. Herba scandens, cau- 
dice (3 dm. ab apice) 13 mm. crass, e nodis radicante in sicco 
rugoso ; foliorum petiolo laminam paullo excedente, specimine 23-27 
cm. long., vagina membranacea mox lacerata inferne latiuscula sur- 
sum angustata baud ad geniculi basin attingente instructo ; lamina 
late obovato-elliptica apice breviter acuta basi late cuneata inaequi- 
laterale 22-23 cm. long. 11-13*5 cm. lat., altero latere circa Ip 
latiore, nervis lateralibus primariis quam nervi secundarii numerosi 
vix crassioribus angulo circa 60°-70° a costa subtus prominente 
abeuntibus marginem versus arcuatis; pedunculo 3 cm. long, crasso; 
spadice haud stipitato cylinclrico sursum paullo attenuato apice rotun¬ 
da to, 6 cm. long, basi 1*5 cm. crass. ; pistillis prismaticis vertice 
pluri-angulatis 5 mm. long, stigmate orbiculari in stylo 1 mm. longo 
elevato ; ovulis e placenta membranacea oriundis funiculo longo 
elevatis. 
Sogere, 2500 ft., 323. Fruit (very young) grejdsh white. 
Doubtfully referred by Ridley, l. c. 309, to B. Beepla Schott, but 
a broader-leaved species, and characterised by the stigma being con¬ 
spicuously elevated on a stylar process of the top of the pistil. 
Aponogetonacejel 
Aponogeton Lori^ Martelli, forma. Sogere, in an affluent of 
the Laragi, sine no. 
Th is was determined by Ridley, l. c. 359, as A. crispus Thunb., a 
species from Southern India and Ceylon. I have seen no authentic 
specimen of A. Lorice , which is recorded by Martelli from South-east 
Guinea and North-east Queensland, but, judging from Martelli’s 
description, I think Forbes’s plant may be a small form of the 
species. The narrow linear-lanceolate leaves are about 10 cm. long 
