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than of an Hrechthites, it is placed with the former, although estaminate flowers 
occur constantly in rather conspicuous numbers. The extreme shortness of the 
stiomas even in the estamininate flowers, rendering the style almost undivided, seems 
quite anomolous in this large genus and even in the whole order. 
Senecio evechthitoides. 
Scantily beset with hairlets ; leaves lax, upper elliptic-lanceolar in outline, sessile, 
somewhat clasping, rather deeply indented; flowers comparatively small, terminally 
clustered ; involucre before expansion about thrice as long as broad ; its constituting 
bracts ten to twelve; accessory bracts two or three, much shorter, quite narrow ; 
estaminate flowers several, ther corolla extremely thin, their style enclosed ; their 
stigmas capillary without any terminal dilation; corolla of the bisexual flowers 
eradually and very moderately dilated upwards, the denticulation quite short ; anther- 
base lobeless; achenes very slender, closely streaked, somewhat beset with minute 
appressed hairlets, marginally dilated at the top; pappus-bristlets extremely tender, 
minutely denticular-rough. 
Crest of the Owen Stanley's Ranges. 
The plant bears considerable resemblance to S. radiolatus (F. v. M. Vegetation 
of the Chatham-Islands 24 pl. IV.) but the outer flowers are erechthitoid ; these 
however number too few for placing it exactly into Hrechthites, unless for its reception 
a new section within that genus was purposely instituted. 
Taraxacum officinate. 
G. H. Weber in Wiggers primitiz flore Holsaticz 56 (1780). 
Mount Knutsford, bedded into the turf, constituted by various other plants. 
There occurring only in the very small form, distinguished as a Himalayan alpine 
plant under the name Leontodon parvulus by Wallich. This undoubtedly must be 
regarded as indigenous in the Papuan Highlands. It has been found neither on the 
high mountains of the Sunda-Islands nor in the Australian Alps. In our continent 
here the plant is clearly an immigrated one. 
Vaccinium acutissimum. 
Glabrous; leaves on very short stalks, elliptic-lanceolar, ending in a pointed 
long acumen, entire at the margin, biglandular at the base ; racemes short, generally 
several together at and near the end of branchlets; bracts basal, somewhat deltoid, 
pointed; pedicels nearly as long as the flowers; undivided portion of the calyx 
