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4 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
being placed opposite to the sepals; this latter characteristic, as well as the presence 
of petals and the double number of stamens, removes the plant from Colobanthus. 
It fits fairly well into the section Spergella of Sagina, inasmuch as the petals of 
S. nodosa are also much surpassing the sepals, and as the number of stamens is 
likewise 10. 
Drapetes ericoides, J. Hooxnr, icones plantarum t. 895 (1852). 
Mount Musgrave, and also in the highest region of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges 
up to Mount Victoria. 
The specimens, obtained now, are still taller than that figured from Kini-Balu, 
some measuring nearly a foot in height, but others are partly procumbent and then 
ascendant. 
Rubus Macgregoru. 
Branchlets closely beset with short spreading colourless hairlets and bearing small 
recurved prickles; leaves on short stalks, mostly trifoliolate; stipules narrow- 
lanceolar, almost glabrous, with hardly any denticulations; leaflets comparatively 
small, rather firm, almost sessile, cuneate-obovate or verging into a rhomboid form, 
duplicately crenate-serrate, occasionally short-lobed, often unarmed, above almost 
glabrous, beneath slightly paler and along the there prominent venules beset with soft 
hairlets ; flowers on terminal short peduncles two or three; pedicels and peduncles 
bearing a close vestiture and some prickles; calyx unarmed, outside imperfectly 
beset with short appressed hairlets, its segments acuminate, entire ; petals about as 
long as the calyx, nearly glabrous; stamens somewhat shorter than the petals ; styles 
glabrous; receptacle densely invested with hairlets; fruitlets about fifteen, rather 
large, almost glabrous ; endocarp reticular-rough. 
Mount Victoria. 
To judge from the two specimens received, which are but few inches long, this 
would seem a dwarf almost herbaceous species, in aspect much like R. fragarioides 
and R. Thompsoni, so as to resemble more a strawberry-plant than a bramble. It 
cannot be regarded as identical with either of the two congeners mentioned, differing 
from R. Thomsoni in neither very membranous nor much acuminated leaficts, in 
broader stipules and in not invested fruitlets; while from R. fragarioides it may 
already be distinguished by being provided with prickles, the leaflets not being quite 
glabrous, the stipules being narrower and pointed, and by having more numerous 
fruitlets; from R. alpestris it seems also quite distinct in dwarf growth, rather smaller 
leaflets, more copious and always glandular indument, absence of prickles on the 
calyces (that characteristic perhaps unreliable) and larger petals. The leaflets would 
most likely be sometimes increased to five, as in some of the allied plants. The 
affinity to R. Gunnianus, R. arcticus, R. saxatilis and some other of the dwarf kinds 
of Rubus is more distant still. 
