34 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. Thickets and open woods — Bertero ; Scolder ; Douglas ; 

 Reed; Moseley. 



There appears to be but one species in the islands, but it varies very much in stature 

 and in foliage, according to the situation in which it grows. Remy (1. c.) states that Colla 

 records his Eseallonia rubricaulis from the central provinces of Chili, and Engler repeats 

 it; yet Colla cites only the following remark: " Hab. in fruticetis et sylvaticis apricis 

 collium insular Juan Fernandez," which is almost an exact copy of Bertero's label in the 

 Kew Herbarium. 



Escallonia numbers between forty and fifty species, restricted to South America, and 

 finds its greatest concentration in Chili. 



HALORAGE^E. 

 Haloragis alata, Jacq. 



Haloragis alata, Jacq., Ic. PL Rar., i. t. 69 ; Hook, f., Handb. Fl. N. Zeal., p. 65 ; Benth., FL Austr., 



ii. p. 479. 

 Haloragis cercodia, Ait., Hort. Kew, ed. 1, ii. p. 37; Gay, Fl. Chil., ii. p. 362. 

 Cercodia erecta, Murr. ; DC., Prodr., iii. p. 67. 



Juan Fernandez. — Amongst grass and bushes on the hills — Bertero, 1464 ; without 

 locality — Scolder; Cuming, 1347; Mrs Graham; Reed; Moseley. 



Also in New Zealand, New South Wales, and Victoria, but not on the mainland of South 

 America, where the genus is unrepresented. Haloragis numbers about forty-two species, 

 thirty-seven of which inhabit Australia, where thirty-three of them are endemic. Four 

 species, one of which is peculiar, occur in New Zealand ; one species is found in New 

 Caledonia, and two or three species in the Indian Archipelago, while Haloragis micrantha 

 ranges from New Zealand and Australia northward to India, China, and Japan. It is by 

 mistake that Mr Bentham (Flora Australiensis, ii. p. 473) records the genus as South 

 African. 



Gunnera insularis, Thilippi. 



Gunnera insularis, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, p. 6-12. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic (ex Philippi). 



There are no specimens at Kew answering to the description of this species, which the 

 author states is allied to Gunnera magellanica, " differt foliis baud crenatis, sed obscure 

 lobatis, dentibus distantibus munitis, nee non statura multo majore." 



Gunnera bracteata, Steud. (Plate LIV.) 



Gunriera bracteata, Steml., fide R. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Bar., p. 75; Walp., Rep., ii. p. 100. 

 Gmmera glabra, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, p. 643? 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. Damp, shady places in the higher mountains — 

 Bertero, 14G3, at least in part; Germain. 



