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RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
Possibly this species may yet become identified with some already known, when 
fuller material is obtained, but the writer did not like passing this opportunity of 
giving at least a preliminary account of a plant geographically so interesting, as only 
one Myosotis is known as peculiar to the Himalayas and none from the Sunda 
Islands. The remarkable elongation of the corolla-tube in proportion to the lobes is 
shared by this species with M. variabilis, irrespective of some of the section Exarrhena. 
The recent restoration of Waldstein and Kitaibel’s Myosotis suaveolens has led 
to the change of tie name of Labillardiere’s plant into M. exarrhena, as effected in 
the “Second Census of Australian Plants” instituted in 1889 and just published. 
Phyllocladus hypophylla ; J. Hooker, icones plantarum 889 (1852). 
Mount Musgrave. 
Of this ‘‘ fern-leaved pine”’ only the foliage is available; but as others of the 
Kini-Balu plants have now been traced to the highlands of New Guinea, we have 
good reason for supposing, that it is the Borneo-species, to which our present one 
should be referred. The pseudo-phyllodes of the Papuan species are longer and 
more acuminated, than those delineated by Fitch, but seemingly other differences do 
not exist, so far as the branches and frondlike dilatations, the latter formed by 
connate leaves (not leaflets) are concerned, as viewed by Sir Joseph Hooker and as 
thus far comparable to those of Gingko also. 
Libocedrus Papuana. 
Branchlets much compressed, broadish; leafy internodes from nearly twice to 
finally rather more than thrice longer than broad; lateral leaves several times 
shorter than the marginal leaves, almost rhomboid ; marginal leaves much connate, 
rather acute, sometimes partially glaucous; staminate amentaceous spikes very small, 
several crowded together at and near the summit of branchlets, almost ellipsoid and 
sessile; rhacheoles minute, glabrous, nearly rhomboid and sessile; anthers generally 
four occasionally three or rarely two to each rhacheole, almost globular. 
On Mount Victoria and on others of the highest elevations of the Owen Stanley’s 
Ranges. Breadth of leafy internodes to one quarter of an inch. Marginal leaves 
‘somewhat keeled, their length from one-eighth to fully one-third of an inch. 
Staminate spikes about one-quarter of an inch long, mostly opposite; rhacheoles 
spirally arranged in a few rows. Pollen-grains yellowish, smooth, ovate-globular. 
Ovulary and fruit unknown. 
Considering, that all the other Conifers, hitherto known from New Guinea, are of 
mainly or entirely southern type, I have ventured, to assign accordingly a generic 
position to this plant; but it is quite possible that it will become transferable to 
Thuya or some other allied genus, when the fruit will have been secured, though the 
