8 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
This Papuan species is the only known as yet from a subalpine region ; whether 
it descends to lower elevations, and then assumes a greater height and also larger 
dimensions of the leaves, remains to be ascertained. The genus extends far beyond 
the tropics, thus one species to the Manning-River in 32° S., another to a region in 
Japan at 38° N. This, the only Papuan congener as yet known, is dedicated to J. 
B. Cameron, Hisq., the second in command during Sir W. Macgregor’s expedition, 
who aided much in obtaining in the course of that enterprise many botanic specimens, 
and from whom, as a professional surveyor, we may expect further and perhaps early 
geographic discoveries in the great Papuan Island. 
Galium Favanicum; Blume Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie, 948 (1826). 
Crest of Owen Stanley’s Ranges among Epilobium. 
To this is very closely cognate our G. australe ; when De Candolle described the 
latter (1830), he had not seen Blume’s plant; in Java it occurs also only on high 
mountains. 
Mikania scandens ; Willdenow, species plantarum III, 1748 (1808). 
Mount Musgrave. 
Recorded previously from New Guinea by Martelli; not yet found in Australia. 
The only one of numerous American species, which wandered away to the eastern 
hemisphere, where it has retained as an isolated species its constancy since centuries, 
not developing, as might have been expected, new forms. 
Anaphalis Mariae. (Leontopodium Mariae, F. vy. M. Coll.) 
Procumbent or ascendent, sometimes rather extensively creeping; stems 
slender, simple or few-branched, bearing a dense white vestiture; leaves small, 
spreading or turned downward, from lanceolar to broadish-linear, always acute, 
entire, sessile, recurved along the margin, above glabrous or glabrescent, beneath 
densely beset with somewhat cottony white hairlets; headlets of flowers few, at or 
near the upper end of the stem or branches, occasionally two or solitary, mostly 
short-stalked ; involucral bracts white at least upwards, the majority narrowly 
lanceolar-elliptical, glabrous except near the base, soon spreading; the inner 
radiating, towards the base brownish cuneate and almost stalk-like ; receptacle small, 
depressed, glabrous; flowers numerous, the perfect staminate towards and at the 
centre, the extremely thin perfect pistillate flowers towards and at the periphery ; 
achenes cylindric, laxely beset with minute hairlets; pappus-bristlets fully as long 
as the corolla or rather longer, uniseriate, white, delicate-capillary, slightly scabrous, 
those of the staminate flowers denticularly. somewhat thickened towards the 
upper end. 
Mount Knutsford with Trigonotis. 
