Laixg. — Vegetation of Banks Peninsula. 395 



Family Passifloraceae. 



Tetrapathaea australis Raoul. [R. ; J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Becoming extinct on the Lyttelton Hills. Maori Pa, Port Levy ; 

 Pigeon Bay ; Aylmer's Valley ; Checkley's Bush, Akaroa, common ; 

 Barry's Bay ; Caton's Bay. Here at its southernmost limit on this coast. 



Family Thymelaeaceae. 



*Drapetes Dieffeiibachii Hook. 



Common above 2,000 ft. Leaves hairy at the tip but not on the 

 margin. In specimens from Mount Brasenose the perianth-lobes are 

 as long as the tube and externally villous. Dr. Berggren has identified 

 this with the Tasmanian D. tasmanica, which it resembles,! but in the 

 absence of specimens of the latter it must be left as it is. 



1 have seen no pimeleas on the peninsula ; but J. B. A. lists {^)P. pro- 

 strata, thouoh J. F. A. oives it merely as an inhabitant of Canterburv 

 swamps. 



Family Myrtaceae. 



Leptospermum scoparium Forst. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Everywhere common in heaths. 



Leptospermum ericoides A. Rich. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Abundant, and in the Kaituna Valley growing into trees more than 



2 ft. in diameter at the bole and 50 ft. high. 



Metrosideros hypericifolla A. Cunn. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Not common on the Lyttelton Hills, but plentiful in the forest 

 elsewhere on the peninsula. 



According to J. B. A., {'')M. scandens and (')M. Colensoi also occur 

 on the peninsula, but these records are almost certainly erroneous. 



Myrtus ohcordata (Raoul) Hook. f. [R. ; J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 

 Common in forest and scrub. (Akaroa is the type-locality.) 



*Ml/rt)(s peduHCulata Hook. f. [J. B. A.] 



Kaituna Valley and elsewhere ; but not nearly so common as the 

 preceding. I do not think it occurs on the Lyttelton Hills. 



Family Onagraceae. 



*Epilohiuni Billardierianum Ser. [J. B. A.] 



'' At sea-level in Sleepy Cove, between Long Bay and Stonv Bay " : 

 A. AVall. 



Epilobium junceum Sol. var. chtereum Haussk. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 

 Lyttelton Hills, and elsewhere ; common. 



Epilohixm junceum Sol. var. macrophyllum Haussk, 



Wainui Cashmere Valley : R. M. L. Between Little River and 

 Port Levy Saddle, in damp places : A. Wall. 



Epilobium puhens A. Rich. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 

 In many places ; common. 



t Cheeseman, Manu'il, p. 165. 



