ENUMERATION OF THE PLANTS. 



PHANEROGAM^}.— ANGIOSPEPvMvE. 

 DICOTYLEDONES.— POLYPETAL.E. 



MAGNOLIACE^E. 



Drimys confertifolia, Philippi. 



Drimys confertifolia, Philippi in Bot. Zeit, 1856, p. 641. 

 Drintij* chilensis, Gay, Fl. ChiL, i. p. 61, partim. 



Drimys fernandeziana, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist., 1S5S, ser. 3, ii. p. 48, et Contrib. Bot., i. p. 137, 

 t. 27. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. One of the commonest trees of the woods on the hills 

 and mountains — Bertero; without remarks — Germain; Cuming; Reed; here and there 

 — Moseley. 



Until recently this tree, in books at least, has been associated with the sufficiently 

 distinct Drimys chilensis ; yet Bertero, who made the earliest considerable collection of 

 plants in the island that has been used for the purposes of this report, recognised it as 

 different from the Continental species. The label accompanying his specimens in the Kew 

 Herbarium bears the following inscription — "Drimys a ehilensi, DC. diversa. Vulcjo 

 Canelo. In sylv. coll. et mont." 



Drimys comprises about ten or a dozen species, whereof one or two are American, 

 ranging from Chili to Brazil and Mexico ; one inhabits New Zealand, two Australia, four 

 or five New Caledonia, and one the mountains of Borneo. As a genus it is very distinct, 

 and it affords an example of those southern generic types which are neither peculiarly 

 American nor Old World ; and besides being represented in South America and Austral- 

 asia, extend considerably northward in both hemispheres. 



BERBERIDE^E. 

 Berberis paniculata, rihlippi. 



IU rln •/•/»■ paniruiata, Philippi in Descr. Nuevas Plantas, 1872, p. 6. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. A single shrub found — Philippi. 



Philippi states that this is easily distinguished from Berberis corymbosa by its 

 coriaceous, narrower, reticulated leaves, glaucous below, by the shorter petiole, the leafy 

 peduncles, &c. 



