2 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
aromatica in the mild valleys attains a height of fully 30 feet, whereas in our sub- 
alpine zone it becomes dwarfed to a very small shrub, the length of the leaves varying 
from one to four inches correspondingly. D. Hatamensis in the lower regions is less 
acrid-aromatic than in the higher. In all specimens, now examined, the number of 
sepals and of petals is two; the former are ovate-orbicular, the latter hardly as long as 
the sepals; the stamens number from 20 to 30. In the staminate flowers occasionally 
also two pistils occur. 
Hypericum Macgregori. 
Glabrous; stems erect or ascending, somewhat lignescent towards the base ; 
angules of the branchlets slightly prominent; leaves copious, smali, sessile, of 
rather tender texture, from oval to lanceolar-elliptical, blunt, flat or somewhat 
incurved, equally green on both sides; flowers on short stalks, singly terminating 
branchlets ; sepals lanceolar-elliptical, entire ; petals twice or thrice as long as the 
sepals, elliptic-cuneate ; stamens about twenty; filaments disconnected, unless at 
the base; hypogynous glandules none; styles three, free, about three times shorter 
than the filaments; ovulary completely three-celled; placentaries axillary; fruit 
ovate-ellipsoid, faintly streaked ; seeds cylindric-ellipsoid. 
At the highest elevations of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges among Styphelia and 
Potentilla. 
From a few inches to 13 foot high. 
H. gnidioides differs in more rigid and somewhat longer leaves, shorter petals, 
one-celled ovulary and therefore sutural placentaries; H. Aegyptiacum has the 
leaves blunter, the flowers smaller, the stamens distinctly connate into three sets, the 
hypogynous glandules developed, the styles shorter and the ovules less numerous ; 
H. quadrangulatum is a larger plant in all its parts with cymous inflorescence, with 
more numerous and fasicular stamens, longer styles and streaked pericarp; 
H. avicularifolium, H. Aucheri and ~H. saturejifolium are at once distinguished by 
their glandularly ciliolated acute sepals. H.Phrygium has biovulate fruit-cells ; 
H. cuneatum possesses broader leaves and mostly axillary flowers; H. repens is 
very distinct already by its glandularly fringed petals, and all these species differ 
variously in respective other characteristics. Blume in 1825 and 1852 indicated 
several species from Java, irrespective of H. Japonicum, but they belong to a section 
of the genus (Norysca) different to that (Huhypericum) of our new and probably 
endemic Papuan species, the genus Cratoxylon being more developed in the Sunda 
Islands than Hypericum. 
Elaeocarpus latescens. 
Leaves conspicuously stalked, of very firm texture, mostly obovate but rounded 
towards the upper end or even somewhat truncate, almost flat, minutely and distantly 
denticulated, above soon glabrous, beneath bearing a brownish close vestiture and 
