82 ME. H. N. EIDLEY ON PLANTS 



inflorescentia necnon foliorum pagina inferior tomento fulvido arete induti. Folia 

 plerumque opposita vel subopposita, breviter petiolata, anguste ovato-oblonga, 

 obtusa vel obtusissima, integra, coriacea, supra cito glabra nitidaque, pleraque 

 4-7 longa, l'3-2'8 cm. lata. Capitula mediocria, in corymbos laxiusculos 

 peduucuJatos oligocepbalos raribracteatos ex axillis superioribus ortos folia ssepius 

 superantes disposita. Fedimculi proprii capjftulis plane longiores, ssepissime 

 l'5-3'5 cm. longi. Involucrum campanulatum', 4-seriale, 6 mm. longum ; pbylla 

 extima abbreviata, lanceolato-subulata, 3 ram. longa, intermedia oblongo-lanceolata, 

 4 mm. longa, intima oblonga, 5 mm. longa, omnia obtusiuscula, dorso sparsim 

 pubescentia margineque prcesertim sub apice ciliata, brunnea, nervo lato mediano 

 fusco percursa. Flosculi 16-17 ; radii ligulae 9-10, oblongae, tridentatse, 4-5 mm. 

 longse, ex involucro plane eminejites ; disci corollas 7, 4-5 mm. longiB, inferne 

 anguste cylindricse, superne campanulatse ; lobi oblongi, glabri. Antherce basi 

 caudiculis minimis tenuibus prsEditae, 2 mm. longse. Achoenia adhuc cruda com- 

 pressa, paucistriata, glabra, 2 mm. longa. Pappi setae pauca), inter se fere 

 aequilongse, scabridoe, sordide albse, 4'5 mm. longge. 

 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 cm. in length, though often only 3-4 mm. long, the uppermost 

 passing into the involucral leaves. Seads expanded about 10 X 13 mm. Corollas of 

 disk-florets with the narrow tubular part (2 mm. long) microscopically puberulous ; the 

 campanulate part split nearly § of its length into 6 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. 



Ebigeron Klossii, S. Moore, sp. uov. 



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 cm. longa, 1 mm. lata. 

 Capitula mediocria, 4-5-flosculosa, longe pedunculata, caulem ramulosve solitatim 

 coronantia sed revera subterminalia, circa 12 X 15 mm. FeduncuU folia sa^pissime 

 longe excedentes, bracteis anguste linearibus + 5 mm. longis hac atque iliac onusti, 

 griseo-pubescentes, plerumque 6-10 cm. longi. Involucrtmi hemisphsericum ; 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. 



