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the side ones, those on the panicle examined only in the early-bud stage, but 
probably female. The lateral or male flowers—bracts imbriecate, orbicular, 
scarcely 1 line in diameter. Sepals rather longer with somewhat longish hairs 
on the margins. Petals valvate, twice as long as the sepals. Stamens numerous, 
over 86 in the flowers examined, surrounding what appeared to be a sterile 
ovary or style. Fruit only one obtained, purple, exocarp juicy; endocarp 
5-sulcate or 5-ribbed, about }-in. long. Albumen not deeply ruminate. 
Hab. : Swamp off Mambare beach, New Guinea, May, 1898. In some respects this palm 
somewhat approaches Ptychosperma angustifolia, Blume, Rumphia IT, 122. 
Suznrreme CARYOTIDE. 
ARENGA, Labill. 
A. gracilicaulis (n..sp.) Stem slender, arising. from the centre of numerous 
radical leaves, seldom exceeding 10 ft. Radical leaves—petiole 34 ft., . 
mealy-scabrous, sheath clasping the stem below and produced above the 
petiole into a ligula about 1 ft. long. Rhachis about 4 or 5 ft. long, bearing 
on either side about 25 alternate segments, besides the several confluent 
ones which form the terminal fan, and the lowest which are in clusters of four; 
those at the centre of the leaf about 13 ft. long, and from } to 1 in. broad, 
linear, mealy on the underside, midrib prominent, contracted at the base 
almost into a petiolule, attached to the sides of the rhachis, the apex a broad 
blunt orsharply-toothed point, the terminal ones nearly truncate. Inflorescence 
at first terminal, afterwards from the axils of the leaves down the stem, 
probably dicecious; sheathing bracts numerous, narrow, lanceolate, 1 ft. or 
more long, quite enclosing the peduncle. Panicle (male) short, the branches or 
spikes of flowers about 1 ft. long. Bracts 3, orbicular. Calyx very short, the 
segments forming a 8-lobed cup. Petals valvate, 3, hard, horny, ovate, 3 lines 
long. Stamens numerous, having a curious appearance from many hanging 
down from between the petals; filaments much shorter than the anthers: 
Spikes of female peduncle often exceeding 3 ft. long. Stigmas on the young 
fruits 3-lobed, quite sessile. Ripe fruit said to be red, globose, and 1 in, 
in diameter, but none ripe at the time of our visit (24th May, 1898). 
Hab. : At the top of a small bay, foot of Mount Trafalgar. The horsehair-like fibre produced 
at the upper part of the leaf-sheath by species of this genus, isin the present one straight and 
slender, and might probably be found useful in the manufacture of brushware, 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order MUSCI. 
LEUCOBRYUM, Hampe. 
L. strictifolium, Broth. in Ofver. Finska Vet. Soc. Férh. Bd. LV. Dicecious; 
slender, exspitose, tufts somewhat loose, depressed, broadly spreading, 
glaucous-green, stems elongated, creeping and rooting throughout their whole 
length, foliage dense, arranged in five rows, somewhat densely branched, 
branches short; leaves dense, acute, cuspidate, sub-erect, straight, oblong- 
lanceolate, the upper ones with large teeth on the back, mucronate, margins 
erect, conniving in the upper part, bordered, border hyaline, formed by 5-6 
series of cells, produced continuously to the apex; laminz composed of two 
strata of equal cells; perichetial bracts acuminate, arising from a narrow 
