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niferum, Hook. fil.; a still more noble species, 5 and 6 feet 
high, with leaves often 2 feet long and 1 foot wide. It 
covers a great extent of ground, and forms the larger propor- 
tion of the food of the hogs which run wild upon the islands. 
of Lord Auckland's group. ‘Tabs. 26 and 27, Celmisia verni- 
cosa, assuredly one of the most lovely of all composite plants, 
with rosulate leaves leoking as if varnished, and flowers 
having white or pale rose-coloured rays and a deep purple 
disk, or eye. Tab. 28, a second species of Forstera (Ord. 
Stylidiee), and constituting a subgenus, “ Helophyllum,’ the 
F. clavigera, Hook. fil. Tab. 29, Pratia arenaria. Tab. 30, 
Androstoma (nov. gen. of Epacridee) empetrifolia, Hook. fil. 
Tabs. 31 and 32, Dracophyllum longifolium, Br., a noble spe- 
cies, with long, narrow, fasciculated leaves, like those of a 
Monocotyledonous plant, and a stem or trunk from 15 to 25 
feet long. Tab. 33, D. scoparium, Hook. fil. Tab. 34, Sut- 
tonia divaricata, Hook. fil. (Myrsine divaricata, A. Cunn.) 
Tab. 35, Gentiania concinna, and 36, G. cerina, two exqui- 
sitely beautiful species. Tab. 37, Myosotis capitata, Hook. 
fil. Tab. 38, M. antarctica, Hook. fil. The well known 
Veronica decussata of our Gardens, we find changed to V. el- 
liptica, on the authority of Forster’s Herbarium. "Tabs. 39 
and 40, Veronica Benthami, Hook. fil. (V. finaustrina, Hombr. 
et Jacquinot), a splendid shrub, with large dark blue flowers, 
worthy of bearing the name of one who has laboured so suc- 
cessfully in the family of plants to which it belongs. Tab. 41, 
V. odora, Hook. fil., remarkable for the delicious fragrance 
of its flowers. Tab. 42, Plantago Aucklandica, Hook fil. Tab. 43, 
Plantago carnosa, Br. Tabs. 44 and 45, Chrysobactron Rossii, 
Hook.fil.(Veratrum Dubouzeti, Hombr. et Jacquinot). Since the 
plate has been known to the author, and finding that Messrs. 
Hombron and Jacquenot had referred this plant to Melantha- 
cee, he has been led again to examine its claims to be placed in 
Veratrum, and he has to remark upon it that “the abortive - 
ovaria of the male flowers, bearing three points or styles, con- _ 
stitute the only ground of resemblance. As, however, in the — 
fertile ovaries, the style is distinctly a solid, elongated column, — 
