HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. 13 
establish a subgenus under the name Hecatactis, which—if deemed preferable— 
could be raised to generic rank. Myriactis in its typical forms, as occurring in Persia, 
Iberia, Turkestan, the Nilgerries, the Himlayas, Java and Sumatra belong there also 
mainly to the cool or even cold regions, reaching in Sikkim according to Sir Jos. 
Hooker elevations of 12,000 feet. Moreover small states of M. Wightii are externally 
not at all dissimilar to our new Papuan plant, their rhizome being also quite woody 
and clearly perennial, and as such the species is already noted by De Candolle. The 
material, which served now for dissection, had suffered in transit, like many of the 
other specimens, brought under so much difficulty and peril from the Papuan 
Highland, so that on the present descriptions may perhaps be improved in future from 
ampler supplies. 
In Sir William MacGregor’s collection from the same spot occurs a plant, 
congeneric and possibly conspecific with the one, just described, for which the 
designation rvadicans might be chosen ; its stem is partly creeping and much rooting ; 
its leaves are much narrower, indeed broad-linear and almost or quite glabrous, but 
the stems bear some indument, and the ligular expansions of the peripheric flower, 
are somewhat broader. 
Lagenophora Billardierit. 
Cassini in Bulletin de la Société philomatique 34 (1818). 
Summit of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
The fruit on the only specimen obtained is in a very young state, but so far as 
can be judged from the material before me, the plant is identical with the typical 
species, the terminal cylindric elongation of the fruit being observable. 
Ischnea. 
Involucral bracts about eight, almost biseriate, of equal height, nearly elliptical, 
somewhat scarious. Bracts between the flowers none. Peripheral flowers in one row, 
estaminate, their corolla ligulate ; corolla of the rest of the flowers with five deltoid 
‘short lobes. Anther-cells without any basal appendage. Stigmas of the peripheric 
flowers extremely short, quite blunt. Fruits of the peripheral flowers seed-bearing, 
almost dimidiate-ellipsoid, slightly incurved, streaked-angular, the circular apex placed 
almost laterally. Fruit of the other flowers remaining undeveloped. Pappus none. 
Ischnea elachoglossa. 
Summit of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. A glabrous weak herb, a few inches 
high. Root extremely thin, somewhat creeping, its fibrelles capillary-thin. Stems 
unbranched. Leaves narrow-linear, entire, flat or along the margin incurved, the 
lowest rather crowded and to about one inch long, the upper distant and gradually 
