36 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
Gahnia Favanica ; Zollinger’s systematisches Verzeichniss der im Indischen Archipel 
gesammelten Pflanzen 98 (1854). 
On the crest of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
The plant agrees fairly well with the descriptions, furnished by Hasskarl, 
Steudel, Miquel and Beeckler of the Java-and Sumatra-species, which ascends there 
already to 9000 feet. It approaches among Australian congeners closely to G. 
erythrocarpa. 
Schoenus curvulus. 
Stems thinly filiform, laxe, variously curved, streaked ; leaves extremely narrow, 
somewhat channelled and curved or even twisted, slightly rough towards the summit, 
most of the lower leaves about as long as the stems, the floral leaves also elongated 
but gradually shorter; petioles glabrous, the lower slit, rather dilated, the upper 
closely cylindric, slender and nearly black ; spikelets often in three somewhat distant 
fascicles or short panicles, but the inflorescence occasionally much reduced; 
peduncles very thin, some elongated; spikelets almost black, seldom brownish, 
linear-ellipsoid; bracts usually five, the lower shorter and acute, the upper longer 
and almost blunt; rudimentary sepals thin-capillary, slightly rough, surpassing the 
fruit; stigmas three, longer than the style; fruit trigonous-ellipsoid, the angles 
rather prominently margined. 
Mount Victoria and other summits of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
The species is of near alliance to the South-American Schoenus laxus, but its 
stems and leaves are still thinner and weaker, the spikelets are narrower and still 
darker in colour, the rudimentary sepals are usually numbering less, and the fruit 
is proportionately less broad. The very wide geographic isolation of the two speaks 
against their being conspecifically united. 
Carex fissilis ; Boott, illustrations of the genus Carex II, 86 t. 245 (1860). 
On the Owen Stanley’s Ranges at an elevation of about 9000 feet. 
The Papuan plant agrees in all essential characteristics with specimens at low 
evels collected in Queensland, but has the fruits more distinctly ciliolated. 
Sir William Macgregor collected a second Carex, but in incipient inflorescence 
only. Most likely the genus will be found rather extensively represented in New 
Guinea at elevations still higher than those of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges. 
Uncima riparia ; R. Brown prodromus floree Novee Hollandiz 241 (1810). 
Mount Knutsford. 
The species accords perfectly with the typical plant. 
