HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. 3 
there prominently and ascendingly costulated ; flowers small, several or only few in 
mostly axillary racemes; stalklets hardly longer than the sepals and as well as these 
and the peduncles closely beset with brownish hairlets ; sepals lmear-semilanceolar ; 
petals fringed to nearly one-third of their length, imperfectly invested with appressed 
colourless hairlets outside; stamens 16-20; anthers pointed, about as long as the 
filaments; ovulary as well as the lower part of the style beset with appressed 
hairlets. 
On the Musgrave-Range, at an elevation of about 8000 feet. 
H. coriaceus (Hooker icon. 154, E. obovatus, Arnott 1836 not G. Don 1831) 
approaches in form of leaves and in several other characteristics to this Papuan 
subalpine species ; but the absence of copious vestiture, the shorter petioles, the mostly 
terminal racemes, the somewhat larger flowers, the shorter filaments and the blunt 
anthers distinguish that Ceylon congener well ; the fruit of our new plant is not yet 
known, and may also be very different. E. foveolatus possesses the vestiture of 
E. latescens, but is otherwise still more distinct from it. H. ferrugineus, which 
comes evidently near Blume’s E. tomentosus, is larger in all its organs and has 
acuminate leaves. H. Jackii (Monocera ferruginea, Jack in Hooker's bot. 
Miscellany II., 86) differs in much larger and pointed leaves, and is likely also 
distinct in its flowers, they remaining hitherto undescribed. EH. montanus is easily 
separable by its larger leaves with foveoles at the midline beneath and with lesser 
vestiture, by somewhat broader sepals, by longer petals much beset with hairlets on 
both sides, by blunt anthers and perhaps also by its fruit. 
What Miquel mentions as conspecific with EH. reticulatus from Timor, is 
probably referable to HK. Arnhemicus. 
Sagina donatioides. 
Cushionlike-tufted, glabrous ; stems very short, slightly rough ; leaves crowded, 
rigid, quite short, spreading, with broad base sessile, linear-semilanceolar, 
channelled, pungent, thickened and paler at the margin ; flowers solitary, terminal, 
on very short stalks; bracteoles none; sepals linear-semilanceolar, concave, very 
acute, somewhat turgid at the base; petals hardly semiemersed, from a cuneate base 
ovate, very tender, long-persistent; stamens ten, considerably shorter than the 
petals; anthers yellowish ; fruit ellipsoid, five-cleft; seeds renate-ovate, dark-brown, 
slightly rough. 
Summits of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
Leaving the flowers out of consideration, the aspect of this plant is precisely 
that of Colobanthus Benthamianus. On first sight it might be placed generically 
into Arenaria, on account of its close resemblance to species of the sections 
Dolophragma and Eremogone; but the fruit in all instances, which come under 
my notice, is regularly five-cleft, precisely as in Colobanthus, the valves however 
