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.SPENCER MOORE; GAMO PETAL .1:;. ' 3-15 



NoRMANDiA NEOCALEDONiCA ITook, £• Baie Ngo ; Plaine des Lacs ; 

 serpentine scrub; sea-level — 2C00 ft. 20^,297. Mt. Mou; dry serpentine 

 scrub ; 2000 ft. 430. Bale Kuakue ; seipcntine scrub ; 300 I't, 885. 

 Lowj erect sbrub 2 ft. Flowers white or with a sliglit pink tingOj sceiitlef^s. 



COMPOSnVE. 



Ageeatum conyzoides L. a weed in ditches of town of Noumea. 30, 91 

 Weed of wide distribution. 



LAGENorHORA BiLLARDiERi Oas3. Mt, Mou ; sorpentiue scrub of summit ; 

 3500 ft. 574. Mt. Dore ; frequent in drj serpentine scrub ; 800 ft, 675. 

 fc5. and S.E. Asia and Indian Archipelago. 



L. NEOCALEDONIOA S, Moorc, sp. nov. Acaulis, semispithamea vel fcro 

 spithamea ; /0///5 +2*5 cm. long. G-9 mm. lat. rosulatis caudice crasso 

 hinoso enatis oblanceolatis obtusis in petiolum ±1 cm. long, sensim angustatis 

 nuirgine calloso-dentntis teuuiter coriaccis nuirgiue piloso-ciliatis ulrobique 

 microscopice papillosis ; scapis folia longo superantibus gracilibus mono- 

 cephalis puborulis bracteis paucis 2-3 mm, long, linearibus distantcr j)ra3diiis 

 10-15 em. aU. ; involucri phyllis 3x1*25 mm. 2-3-serialibus ovato-oblongis 



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obtusissimis margine leviter scariosls cilialisque ; receptacido convexo ; radh 

 flosculis 14 disci 2^ his onmibus versimilitor sterilibus ; ligidis albis ovato- 

 oblongis minute emarginatis 4 nnn. long,; stijli ramis angustis nppendicibus 

 lineari-lanceolatis coronatis in toto 1*5 mm. long. ; acJt(cnns radii oblongo- 

 obovoideis apice brevissiine contractis primo insignitcr deinde multo minus 

 comprcssis glabris epapposis 3 mm. long. 



Taom ; rare on bare red serpentine earth; 2500 ft. 2305. 



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Has leaves of thicker texture than those of 7v. Bdlardievi Cass, and a 

 different involucre and ligules, besides smaller, less flattened ripe achenes 

 wutU but sliglit indication of narrowing at the tip. 



Erigeron bonariensis L. Mt. Mou ; 800 ft. 555. A South American 



plant now widely dispersed. 



' E. NEOCALEBONICUS S. Mooro, sp, nov. Herlci sumnuim mctralis ; cauU 

 erecto ramoso striato sicut raniuli graciles microscopice puberulo dein glabro ; 

 foliis inferioribus 3-5 cm. x 2*5-4 mm. superioribus 1-2 cm. long, sessilibus 

 linearibus vel auguste lineari-oblongis acute mucronulatis basi obtusis nccnon 

 subobscure decurrentibus junioribus gradatim imminutis ; capitidis pro rata 

 submediocribus heterogamis radiatis (etsi nequaquam manifeste) circa 30- 

 flosculosis ad nplcem ramulorum in paniculas apertas eopiose bractealas 

 pleiocephalas circa 15x7-8 cm. ordinaLis ; involucri 8x8 mm. campanu- 

 lati 3-serialis phyilis anguste lineari-lanceolatis aculis interiorlbus sensim 



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