HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. 
Or 
Rubus diclinis. 
Branches elongated, bearing numerous minute prickles and a dense vestiture 
consisting of spreading short pale-brownish hairlets ; leaves mostly trifoliolate ; leaf- 
lets on conspicuous stalklets, almost or quite unarmed, of firm texture, ovate or 
verging somewhat into a roundish form, often short-acuminate, narrowly and closely 
denticulated, above much wrinkled and bearing scattered hairlets, beneath pro- 
minently costulated as well as reticular-venulated and bearing a short soft vestiture ; 
racemes axillary, irregular, densely beset with short spreading hairlets; peduncles 
prickley, bearing besides the pale-brownish indument also dark glandular-tipped 
bristlets; bracts narrow; flowers quite small, only imperfectly bisexual; calyx 
unarmed unless at the base, its segments deltoid-semilanceolar, without any 
acumination, also inside invested; petals enclosed or hardly exserted, beset with 
hairlets towards the base; receptacle with a penicillar indument; stamens rather 
numerous; filaments ciliolated; pistillate flowers containing only very minute 
rudimentary stamens around the disk; ovularies about twenty, densely invested ; 
styles glabrous upwards; pistils of the perfect staminate flowers diminutive or 
rudimentary. 
Mount Knutsford and Mount Musgrave. 
The diclinism, though not quite absolute, brings this species systematically near 
to R. Australis and R. Moorei, from both of which however it is already separable in 
form, denticulation and lesser rigidity of the leaflets, further in simpler inflorescence 
and perhaps also in fruit, that of R. diclinis remaining unknown. 
Potentilla leuconota; D. Don, prodomus florae Nepalensis 230 (1835). 
Rhizome thick, somewhat tortuous and woody ; stems erect or in some instances 
partially depressed, occasionally dwarfed, as well as most other parts of the plant 
bearing close appressed vestiture of whitish or greyish rather shining hairlets ; 
leaves more numerous at the base of the stem, fewer and distant upwards ; stipules 
broadish, incised at the upper end, some much dilated ; leaflets rather small, sessile, 
mostly obovate-elliptical, by pointed ascending denticles serrulated, invested on both 
sides, the upper gradually decreasing in size, with few or without any intervening 
smaller leaflets, those of the lower leaves rather numerous, those of the successive 
upper leaves less in number or but few; flowers rather small, never numerous ; 
peduncles one-flowered slender, somewhat elongated, singly terminal or one or more 
axillary ; involucellar bracts about as long as. the segments of the calyx, usually 
somewhat incised at the upper end; receptacle densely beset with short hairlets ; 
petals yellow, slightly surpassing the calyx; stamens uniseriate; filaments very 
short, glabrous, broader towards the base; styles glabrous, very short, without any 
turgidity, inserted near the middle of the ovularies, early deciduous; fruitlets 
numerous, very small, oblique-ovate, glabrous. 
