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The fifty-five species in the foregoing table consist of twenty-nine flowering plants 

 and twenty-six ferns and lycopods : most unusual proportions, and probably not repeated 

 in an)- other part of the globe. Out of the twenty-nine flowering plants sixteen are 

 endemic: three, Lagenophora, Chevreulhi, and Empetrvm, are Sonth American, and not 



1 A very small form. 



2 Scarcely specifically different from the widely spread Yittaria lineata. 



