6 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
Owen Stanley’s Ranges and Mount Musgrave from 8000 to 138,000 feet 
elevations. 
P. Mooniana can be distinguished by a less close indument, by more regularly 
developed smaller leaflets interjacent to the larger, by less pointed denticles of the 
leaflets, by usually entire stipules and bracts, as well as by almost paniculate flowers ; 
P. Siemersiana is similarly different, except that it shows the silk-like vestiture of 
P. leuconota also. §. peduncularis has the flowers and fruitlets larger. It was the 
intention to describe this as a new endemic species, because the flowers in the 
Papuan specimens are not subumbellate and much more than one-third inch in 
diameter and the fruitlets very numerous. But as Sir Joseph Hooker refers a 
Potentilla, gathered at an elevation of 11,000 feet on Kini-Balu, also to P. leuconota, 
it would seem, that the Papuan plant belongs to the same specific cyclus of forms in 
a genus, acknowledged to be particularly prolific in varieties. Imperfect specimens 
of a similar Potentilla with less dense but longer indument have been gathered along 
with P. leuconota, of which it may be an extreme form. A new disposition of the 
species of Potentilla has been indicated by Dr. W. O. Focke this year (Abhandl. 
naturwiss. Verein Bremen x, 411-420 t. vii.) 
Metrosideros Regelii : 
Glabrous ; branchlets quadrangular ; leaves small, very firm, short-stalked, from 
cuneate-to orbicular-ovate, flat or at the margin somewhat recurved, conspicuously and 
somewhat pellucidly dotted, shining and dark-green above, paler beneath ; flowers in 
the axils of the uppermost leaves solitary, on very short stalks; bracteoles minute, 
appressed to the calyx, almost ovate, slightly ciliolated, deciduous ; tube of the calyx 
towards the base hemispheric and faintly triangular, towards the summit expanding 
beyond the ovularly ; lobes of the calyx very short, semiorbicular ; petals quite small, 
membranous, roundish, very slightly contracted at the base, rosy-red ; stamens much 
longer than the petals, about 15, all in one row; filaments red ; anthers ovate-ellipsoid, 
yellowish, almost centrifixed, horizontal; style about as long as the filaments ; 
ovularly three-celled ; ovules several in each cell. 
On Mount Musgrave at an altitude between 7000 and 8000 feet. 
Although the fruit remains unknown, a generic position can be allotted to this 
plant with fair safety; it is probably of dwarf stature. Leaves 4 to 4 inch long. 
Petals measuring only about 4 inch. Stamens and style fully 34 inch long. 
Ovules fixed to axillary placentaries. The plant in some respects reminds of M. 
scandens, M. hypericifolia and M. buxifolia. The ovularly and fruit of a few 
congeners are five-celled. Whether Myrtella also belongs to this genus, must 
hereafter be shown, when the fruit has become known. It is worthy of remark, that 
no species of Metrosideros has been discovered anywhere in continental India. With 
this new elegant and comparatively hardy plant of probably easy raising, I have 
