HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. : 25 
Leaves one and a half to two inches long, two-thirds to one inch broad. Corolla 
probably red, its total length about one and a third inches. Fruit unknown yet, 
which like in other instances of this genus may afford some of the best characteristics 
for diagnosis. 
Readily to be distinguished from R. Lochae by smaller and somewhat pointed 
leaves and much narrower carolla; the latter is more like that of BR. retusum, which 
species in some respects resembles that of Correa speciosa. From R. Keysii chiefly 
distinguished in shorter petioles, scanty inflorescence, more curved and downward 
more attenuated corolla-tube, but larger corolla-lobes. Perhaps this new plant is 
nearest to R. spondylophyllum, of which it has the flowers, although the leaves are 
very different in form and as well as the branchlets smoother, while the pedicels and 
style are longer. 
Styphelia montana ; BF. v. M., Fragmenta Phytographie Australie, VI. 45 (1867). 
On Mount Victoria and on others of the loftiest elevations of the Owen Stanley’s 
Ranges. 
All the specimens, obtained there, belong to the variety Hookeri; amone them 
are some with broadish, others with narrow corolla-tube. Sir George Verdon found 
this species also lately on the summit of Mount Macedon, which is a locality of 
lesser height than any, from which within the colony of Victoria this plant was brought 
before. It may be added, that the leaves of Styphelia Tameiameiz are undistinguish- 
able from those of the broad form of Styphelia montana, unless they are more 
narrowed towards the base; the precise relation of these two plants to each other 
requires further to be investigated. Good material of the Hawaian plant is not 
available to me here for comparison. Leucopogon Colensoi may be conspecific. 
Decatoca. 
Sepals five. Lobes of the corolla five, broadly overlapping. Stamens five, 
placed below the corolla-lobes; filaments very short; anthers narrow-ellipsoid. 
Style short. Stigma dilated. Ovulary ten-celled, with one ovule in each cell. 
Disk deeply lobed. Fruit indehiscent; endocarp separating into ten pyrenaceous 
divisions. 
A genus, distinct from Trochocarpa and Decaspora in the important charac- 
teristic of not valvular preflorescence of the corolla; from Brachyloma significantly 
in not consolidated putaminous endocarp. ‘This genus therefore stands precisely in 
the same position to Trochocarpa (in wider sense) as Brachyloma to Styphelia. 
