HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. 19 
Mount Musgrave. 
The result of the dissection rests on one remaining unexpanded flower, so that 
some allowance must be made for the shortness of the description of the anthers and 
other floral organs. The leaves in size are disproportionate to the flowers, being one 
and a half to two and a half long, while the nearly developed flowers measure 
hardly above a quarter of an inch in length. Fertilisation takes place, whilst the 
flowers are yet unopen. This Vaccinium approaches the section Dimorphanthera 
(F’. v. M. in Britten’s Journal of Botany XXIV, 290), which indeed may constitute a 
distinct genus. In leaves and flowers this new plant resembles V. Teysmannii ; but 
I find the calyx of that plant conspicuously lobed, the stamens monomorphous, the 
filaments densely beset with hairlets, the anthers almost devoid of tubules, and both 
differ likely also in characteristics of the ripe fruit. Some affinity exists also to V. 
Jaurifolium and V. ellipticum. The resemblance of some of these plants to species of 
Medinilla is significant. 
Vaccinium ambyandrum. 
Dwarf; branchlets beset with spreading soft whitish hairlets; leaves very small, 
on extremely short petioles, from oval-to elliptical-lanceolar, slightly crenulated or 
almost entire, glabrous, at the margin flat or somewhat recurved ; flowers small, in 
axillar few-flowered racemes or solitary, bent downward ; rachis or peduncle beset 
with hairlets ; pedicels very short, concealed by minute imbricate bracts ; bracteoles 
hy pocalycine, conspicuous, semilanceolar-deltoid, ciliolated, somewhat connate ; tube 
of the calyx hemiellipsoid, glabrous; lobes nearly deltoid, ciliolated, three times 
shorter than the tube ; corolla membranous, of somewhat greater leneth than that of 
the calyx, ovate-urceolar, outside glabrous, inside at and towards the orifice beset with 
hairlets; its lobes almost semiovate, several times shorter than the tube; stamens 
glabrous, about half as long as the corolla; filaments twice as long as the anthers, flat 
towards the base, finely narrow towards the upper end ; anthers yellow, ellipsoid-ovate, 
glabrous, almost centrifixed, devoid of posterior appendicles and of conspicuous 
terminal empty tubules, broadly opening at the summit of the polliniferous cells ; 
style angular, glabrous, as long the corolla; stigma truncate, without any dilatation ; 
epigynous disk glabrous, slightly crenulated ; placentaries turgid ; ovulary five-celled; 
ovules numerous. 
Summits of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
Leaves mostly a quarter to one third of an inch long. Total length of flowers 
rather above one third of an inch. Filaments inserted at the base of the corolla. 
Ovulary totally enclosed within the calyx-tube and connate with it. 
This plant can rightly not be excluded from the genus Vaccinium, of which it has 
the normal completely inferior ovularly, although the aspect is more that of some 
species of Pernettya and Gaultiera. The anthers are almost those of Diplycosia 
