56 Transactions. 



Celmisia Macmahoni T. Kirk. Mount Richmond. A. Morris Jones ! 



glandulosa Hook. f. Ruahine Mountains. 



GnapTialium subrigidum Col. Moawhango Gorge, near Taihape ; near 



Dannevirke ; Cape Turnagain ; near Martinborough. Miss M. E. 



Farrow ! This last is the most southerly station yet recorded. 

 Senecio Colensoi Hook. f. Cape Turnagain. 



reostylidium subulatum Bergg. Kaimanawa Mountains, 4,100 ft. 

 Cyathodes pumila Hook. f. Ruahine and Kaimanawa Mountains, 5,000 ft. 

 Sebaea ovata R. Br. Cape Turakirae, Palliser Bay. 

 Myosotis Forsteri Lehm. Kaimanawa Mountains. 

 Veronica angustifolia A. Rich. Kaimanawa Mountains. 



parviflora Vahl. Kaimanawa Mountains. 



Teucridium parviflorum Hook, f . Taumarunui. 



Elytranthe Colensoi Engl. Growing on forty-year-old oak, Takapau, Whara- 



ungo, Havelock, Marlborough. A. Morris Jones ! 

 tetrapetala Engl. Parasitic on Dracophyllum subulatum, in Kaimanawa 



Mountains, at 3,500 ft. 

 Korthalsella Lindsayi Engl. Wainuiomata mouth, on Muehlenbeckia Astoni. 

 Paratrophis Banksii Cheesem. Mana Island. 

 Fagus Menziesii Hook. f. Absent from the Ruahine Mountains from 



2,000-4 500 ft. 

 Potamogeton pectinatus L. In creek near Cape Turnagain. 

 Oreobolus strictus Bergg. Ruahine Mountains, 5,000 ft. 

 Uncinia compacta R. Br. Kaimanawa Mountains ; Disappointment Island, 



and Port Ross, in Auckland Island group. 

 Microlena polynoda Hook. f. Waihi Falls, near Weber ; Whiskers Bush, 



near Feilding. 

 Lomaria fluviatilis Spreng. At 3,600 ft. on Ruahine Mountains. 



Art. XL — On a Subalpine Element in the Flora of Banks Peninsula. 



By R. M. Laing, M.A., B.Sc. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 6th August 1913.] 



There is to be found on the hill-tops of Banks Peninsula a plant association 

 of a totally different character from that which clothes, or has recently 

 clothed, the lower portions of the hills. This association, though consisting 

 of species which often reach sea-level in the southern parts of New Zealand, 

 may be termed " subalpine," in that on Banks Peninsula it is generally 

 found at altitudes of 2,000 ft. and upwards, though in places some of the 

 species belonging to it extend downwards to 1,500 ft. (as on Cooper's Knobs), 

 or even lower. There are traces of it on the Lyttelton Hills, it is more 

 conspicuous on Cooper's Knobs, and it is abundant on Mount Herbert, 

 Mount Fitzgerald, and Mount Sinclair, the highest points of the peninsula. 

 It is found, as a rule, most fully developed on the southern sides of the 

 hills. These are generally rockier and steeper than the northern flanks, 

 and, being exposed to the south-westerly winds and rains, are generally 

 colder and moister than the drier northern faces, which are exposed more 

 fully to the rays of the sun. 



