16 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
almost hemispheric, lobes semi-ovate and minutely ciliolated; corolla urceolar, its 
tube from about the middle upwards gradually constricted, its lobes several times 
shorter than the tube, rhomboid-roundish; stamens hardly half as long as the 
corolla; filaments about twice as long as the anthers, beset with crisp hairlets ; 
anthers without posterior appendages, the pointed empty apices only about half as 
long as the polliniferous cells; style reaching the lobes of the corolla, glabrous ; 
stigma very small, truncate ; ovularly depressed, five-celled, multiovulate. 
Mount Musgrave. 
Ripe fruit unknown yet. 
From the description, offered by De Beccari (Malesia I, 209), V. paradisearum 
must be specifically distinct from this in not glabrous branchlets, much longer 
racemes, pedicels not jointed under the calyx, corolla-lobes linear and longer than 
the tube. The leaves of our plant are in form very similar to those of V. Duna- 
lianum, which however has mostly axillar solitary racemes, pointed calyx-lobes, 
elabrous filaments, anthers much longer than the filaments with posterior appendages 
and long empty tubes, also a less shortened ovularly. The leaves of the new Papuan 
species again are very much like those of V. Korthalsi (Miquel Annal. Mus. Lued. 
Batav. I, 40, but that Java-plant has larger flowers on longer pedicels, a calyx-limb 
with but slight sinuation and without ciliolation, anther-cells about as long as the 
filaments and rather shorter than the terminal tubules. ; 
Vaccinium Helenae. 
(Agapetes Helenae, F.v.M. MSC.) 
Branchlets beset with short colourless spreading hairlets ; leaves comparatively 
small, of very thick texture, short-stalked, from orbicular-to elliptic-ovate, blunt, soon 
glabrous, almost flat or at the margin slightly recurved, entire, shining on both sides, 
irregularly glandular-dotted beneath, their thin venules visible on the surface only ; 
pedicels scattered or two or few together, finally lateral, about as long as the calyx or 
somewhat longer, recurved, rather robust, very angular, as well as the calyx bearing 
scattered hairlets ; bracts basal, pointed; calyx semiellipsoid-campanulate, its lobes 
several times shorter than the tube, almost deltoid; an articulation between the 
pedicel and calyx; corolla large, three times longer than the calyx, cylindric but 
towards the base gently narrowed, nearly glabrous outside; lobes deltoid semi-lanceolar, 
many times shorter than the tube; stamens inserted towards the base of the corolla, 
enclosed ; filaments almost glabrous, equal in length to the anthers, downward dilated; 
anthers nearly half as long as the corolla, glabrous, slightly rough without any 
posterior appendages, their base blunt, curved inward, protruding somewhat beyond 
the point of insertion, the empty slender at last longitudinally dehiscent tubules twice 
as long as the polliniferous cells; style glabrous, slightly exserted; stigma depressed, 
