82 MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON PLANTS 
inflorescentia necnon foliorum pagina inferior tomento fulvido arcte induti. Folia 
plerumque opposita vel subopposita, breviter petiolata, anguste ovato-oblonga, 
obtusa vel obtusissima, integra, coriacea, supra cito glabra nitidaque, pleraque 
4-7 longa, 1:3-2:8 cm. lata. | Capitula mediocria, in corymbos laxiusculos 
peduneulatos oligocephalos raribracteatos ex axillis superioribus ortos folia ssepius - 
superantes disposita. Pedunculi proprii capitulis plane longiores, szepissime 
1:5-3:5 em. longi Involucrum campanulatum, 4-seriale, 6 mm. longum; phylla 
extima abbreviata, lanceolato-subulata, 3 mm. longa, intermedia oblongo-lanceolata, 
4 mm. longa, intima oblonga, 5 mm. longa, omnia obtusiuscula, dorso sparsim 
pubescentia margineque presertim sub apice ciliata, brunnea, nervo lato mediano 
fusco percursa. Flosculi 16-17; radii ligulæ 9-10, oblongæ, tridentatæ, 4-5 mm. 
longæ, ex involucro plane eminentes; disci corollæ 7, 4-5 mm. longæ, inferne 
anguste cylindricæ, superne campanulatæ; lobi oblongi, glabri. Anthere basi 
caudiculis minimis tenuibus predite, 2 mm. longs. Achenia adhuc cruda com- 
pressa, paucistriata, glabra, 2 mm. longa. Pappi setæ paucæ, inter se fere 
æquilongæ, scabridæ, sordide albæ, 45 mm. longæ. 
Camps XII to XIII, 10,500 to 11,000 ft. 
Leaves rigidly coriaceous ; nerves on the upper face impressed, on the lower prominent, 
including the reticulum ; tomentum a short close felt of centrally fixed hairs; petioles 
stout, tomentose, 5 mm. more or less in length. Corymbs up to 10 x 7 cm., often about 
7-9 x 5-6 cm., heads as many as 15 per corymb, but usually fewer. Bracts very few, 
linear or oblong, up to 1 em. in length, though often only 3:4 mm. long, the uppermost 
passing into the involucral leaves. Heads expanded about 10x 18 mm.  Corollas of 
disk-florets with the narrow tubular part (2 mm. long) microscopically puberulous ; the 
campanulate part split nearly $ of its length into 5 oblong lobes. Style protruding 
beyond the anthers, nearly 4 mm. long, its arms rather more than 1 mm. 
Olearia monticola, Bail. hitherto the only broad-leaved species described from New 
Guinea, differs, so far as can be made out by the description alone, from the present 
plant in the following particulars :—Its leaves are nearly twice as broad, the corymbs 
are dense, the involucres are much broader (hence its heads would appear to be larger), 
and the leaves linear, the corollas of the disk-florets have hairy lobes and the achenes 
are hairy. 
ERIGERON Krossir, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Fruticulosa verisimiliter circiter spithamea. Caulis rigidus, erectus, simplex vel . 
sparsim ramosus, ut ramuli dense foliosus, cito glaber. Folia imbricata, sessilia, - 
linearia, obtusiuscula, margine revoluta, coriacea, glabra, 1 em. longa, 1 mm. lata. 
Capitula mediocria, 4—5-flosculosa, longe peduneulata, caulem ramulosve solitatim 
coronantia sed revera subterminalia, circa 12 x 15 mm. Pedunculi folia seepissime 
longe excedentes, bracteis anguste linearibus + 5 mm. longis hac atque illac onusti, 
| griseo-pubescentes, plerumque 6-10 cm. longi. Involucrwm hemispheericum ; phylla 
4-5-serialia, intus gradatim longiora, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, microscopice 
puberula, extima 4-5 mm. longa, intermedia 7-8:5 mm., intima 10 mm. longa. 
