HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. ob 
Korthalsia Zippelu ; Blume, Rumphia IT. 171 t. 180 (1886). 
Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
This seems to have been collected in the upper regions, to which it is however 
elsewhere not restricted. Ifit advances to high elevations, it would be one of the 
hardiest of all palms. 
Astelia alpina; R. Brown, prodromus flore Nove Hollandiz 291 (1810). 
Mount Knutsford. 
From tufts of other plants some few leaves of this were disentangled, and as 
they are very characteristic, there can hardly be any doubt about the identification ; 
those of the narrowest variety of Aster celmisia certainly are also similar, but have 
not the many longitudinal venules, nor does the almost scarious indument disintegrate 
into straightish and flattened but into lanuginous hairlets. 
Carpha alpina; J. Brown, prodromus florz Nove Hollandiz 230 (1810). 
Summits of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges, particularly on Mount Knutsford. 
A true representative of an alpine flora, as the specific name implies. The 
stigmas soon wear away. 
Scirpus caespitosus; Linné, species plantarum 48 (1753). 
Summits of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
The few specimens from thence have the two lowest bracts hardly larger than 
any of the floral bracts, and the fruits nearly thrice longer than broad. Otherwise 
the Papuan plant does not differ from the ordinary state of this in the northern 
hemisphere so widely distributed species. Moreover, in some Swedish specimens | 
find the spikelet fully of double the length of the lowest bract, and bearing also more 
numerous flowers than usual, while in dwarf states, for instance from Corsica, when 
the spikelet is much reduced in size, the outer bracts become also quite small, 
whereas furthermore in specimens, collected in the Dukedom of Schleswig by mysell 
nearly 50 years ago, the fruit is almost as elongated as that of the New Guinea plant. 
Should nevertheless this plant, as a variety or perhaps even as a species, require 
separation from the genuine S. caespitosus, then the name heleocharoides would be 
an apt one. In the last monography of Cyperacex, that by Boeckeler, the varied 
characteristics of this plant are still not fully met. See Garcke’s Linnewa XXXVIIT, 
434 (1874). I find exceptionally a second spikelet developed from the basal bracts. 
Another Scirpus is contained in the collections, as gathered on Mount Knutsford 
and Mount Musgrave ; it is an aged state of fructification, and may perhaps belong 
to the variety fluviatilis of S. maritimus. 
