HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. 7 
specifically connected the name of Dr. Edward von Regel, in congratulatory 
remembrance of his recent semicentenary professional jubilee, and in recognition of 
his vast services for phytography and horticulture, rendered in highly influential 
positions as Councillor of State of the Russian Empire, and as Director of the 
Imperial Botanic Garden of Petersburg. 
Epilobium pedunculare, Cunningham in Annals of Nat. History, ILI., 32 (1838). 
Crest of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
The plant from thence accords better with that above named, than with any 
other form. Critical specific limitation may involve however an alteration of the 
name also for this Papuan plant, if we resort to the former more conservative 
circumscription of what then were called species in this genus. Observations 
concerning this subject were offered 1864 in my publication on the ‘‘ Vegetation of 
of the Chatham-Islands” pp. 15, 16. Professor Haussknecht in his elaborate 
‘* Monographie der Gattung Epilobium ” (1864) has given on Tafel xxiii a good 
delineation of EH. pedunculare. Dr. Beccari mentioned already the occurrence of 
Kpilobium in New Guinea, having found one high up on Mount Arfak, probably this 
species, which then, as isolated, could not be there affected by the otherwise so 
frequent hybridism in this genus. The Papuan plant, here noted, is not cognate to 
any of the Himalayan congeners. As yet no representative of the genus seems to 
have been found in the Sunda-Islands. 
Helicia Cameron. 
Branchlets beset with short crisp greyish hairlets ; leaves comparatively small, 
on very short stalks, scattered, elliptic-or lanceolar-ovate, soon glabrous, entire, 
hardly paler beneath, flat or at the margin slightly curved, their secondary venules 
much concealed; racemes often lateral, short-stalked, closely many-flowered ; 
pedicels very short, connate at their base, as well as the rachis provided with a short 
vestiture ; bracts very small, almost semilanceolar, quickly deciduous; petals long, 
soon glabrous; anthers nearly sessile, slender, conspicuously exceeded by the semi- 
elliptic apex of the connective; style long, as well as the ovulary glabrous; stigma 
rather elongated, not much thicker than the style, faintly furrowed; hypogynous 
scalelets quite connate into a slightly four-lobed disk ; ovules lateral. 
Mount Knutsford. 
The leaves are smaller than those of any other species, measuring, even when 
well developed, only about one inch in length, notwithstanding the flowers being as 
large as those of H. robusta, to which species however this Papuan plant is allied in 
many respects, thus also in the hypogynous disk not being divided into four distinct 
portions. But the nearest systematic position can with certainty only be indicated, 
when hereafter the opportunity arises for obtaining fruits also. 
