Laing. — Yegefdfimi of Bunl-s Peninsula. 397 



Family Aualiaceak. 



Nuthopanax arboreum Seem. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 



One of the most abundant of forest-trees. Sometimes called '" fig- 

 wood '' by the settlers, or '' New Zealand fig. The surveyors' ugly 

 name of the North is here unknown. 



^Nothopmiax Colensoi Seem. [J. B. A.] 



Long Bay, in the beech forest, not common ; ]\Iount Herbert, in the 

 svibalpine scrub. 



Nothopanax anomalum Seem. 



Mount Pleasant (a few specimens only), and Caton's Bay. 



J. F. A. and J. B. A. record (")P. simplex, but the record does not 

 seem to have been confirmed. 



Schefflera digitata Forst. | J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 

 Abundant ; called " ohau "' at Akaroa. 



Pseudopavax crassifolium C. Koch var. unifoliolahmt Kirk. [J. F. A. : 

 J. B. A. ; L. C] 

 Not uncommon in the forest. 



Pseudopanax ferox T. Kirk. [J. B. A.] 



Little Akaloa ; Caton's Bay: R. M. L. Lake Forsyth: T. Kijk. 

 Stony Bay : J. Andersen ! And elsewhere, but quite uncommon. 



Family Umbelliferae. 



Hijdrocotyle elongata A. Cunu. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Mount Pleasant ; Barry's Bay ; not common. 



H ijdrocotyle americana Linn. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Lyttelton Hills ; Stony Bay ; and doubtless elsewhere. 



Hydrocotyle americana Linn. var. heterorneria Kirk. [J. B. A.; L. C] 

 Cashmere Valley. 



Hydrocotyle novae-zealandiae DC. |L. C. ; J. B. A.] 



Lyttelton Hills. I have not seen this on Banks Peninsula, but 

 doubtless it occurs. 



Hydrocotyle moschata Forst. f. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Lyttelton Hills (and doubtless elsewhere), common. The most 

 abundant species of H ydrocot i/le in the neighbourhood. 



Hydrocotyle microphylla A. Cunn. (?). 



As Cheeseman points out, this may not be Cunningham's plant ; 

 but a small and very distinct form of Hydrocotyle agreeing with the 

 description of this sj)ecies in the Manual is found very commonly on 

 the tracks and in the bush, usually above 1,000 ft. I append a brief 

 description : Leaves four- or five-lobed, to the middle or slightly 

 beyond, about 5-7 mm. across, glabrous or occasionally slightly farinose, 

 lobes sometimes again notched. Petioles rather long (15-20 mm.), some- 

 times with a few isolated hairs. Umbels with 2-5 rays, almost sessile, 

 enclosed at the base by several translucent minute rotundate or broadly 

 oblong bracts. Flowers almost sessile, but peduncle elongatnig in fruit 

 to length of carpel. Fruit laterally compressed, with a rather promi- 

 nent lib on each face. Carpels rounded at the back. This differs from 

 H. americana in the rounded carpels and uniformly smaller size, and 



