. Journal of botany, British and foreign. ^ Wallace. Sucha conclusion, Mr. Bentham justly also observed (p. 14), was pre-mature in the present state of our knowledge; and he added, onthe authority of Sh Joseph Hooker, as an example of the want ofidentity of the rcs^Dective floras, that no Diptcrovarpecc had beenfound to the oast of Borneo. This remark was, of course, onlyintended to apply to the Malayan Archipelago, since the family is Anniversary Address to the Linneau Society, IbT-i, p. V\. \ Tai. D-BlourTL tD. dfiletlitli IviuLterjaBro* map. G ax^ d e in a^ Kallo r eve n . R - e rr, D
. Journal of botany, British and foreign. ^ Wallace. Sucha conclusion, Mr. Bentham justly also observed (p. 14), was pre-mature in the present state of our knowledge; and he added, onthe authority of Sh Joseph Hooker, as an example of the want ofidentity of the rcs^Dective floras, that no Diptcrovarpecc had beenfound to the oast of Borneo. This remark was, of course, onlyintended to apply to the Malayan Archipelago, since the family is Anniversary Address to the Linneau Society, IbT-i, p. V\. \ Tai. D-BlourTL tD. dfiletlitli IviuLterjaBro* map. G ax^ d e in a^ Kallo r eve n . R - e rr, OF NEW GUINEA. 90 known to be well represented in the Philipx^nes. But even withregard to New Gruinea, it was not absolutely true, since a singlespecies, Anisoptera pulyandnc, had been described by Blume fromthat island. The explorations of Beccari have, however, conclusively shownthat though Dipterucarjjew are not absent from the New Guineaflora, they are very poorly represented in it. His collections, infact, in marked contrast to the unrivalled suites of specimenswhich he was able to obtain from Borneo, only comprise veryimperfect and fragmentary specimens of three species, the repre-sentatives of as many genera. Two of these are from MountArfak, on the northern coast, a locality which is particularlyinteresting, as on the same mountain Beccari detected, at aheight of 6000 feet, the first species of Epacridece known from NewGruinea—Styphelia trochocarpoides, F. Muell.* The occur
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