Oliver. — Vegetation and Flora of Lord Howe Island. 161 



Damllia dubia : Bentham, Fl. Austr. vii, 716, 1878; Tate; Hemsley. 



(= Hypolepis tenuifolia.) 

 Damllia flaccida : Moore, Lord Howe Id. Official Visit, 26, 1870. 

 Pteris Milneanum : Moore, Lord Howe Id, Official Visit, 26, 1870. 

 Stipa micrantha : Hemsley, Ann. Bot. x, 258, 1896. (= Dichelachne crinita.) 

 Chloris pumilio: Moore, Lord Howe Id, Official Visit, 26, 1870 ;• Hemsley. 

 Smilax purpurata: Tate, Macleay Mem. Vol. 217, 1893. 

 Peperomia leptostachya : Tate, Macleay Mem. Vol. 217, 1893. 

 Celtis paniculata: Tate, Macleay Mem, Vol. 219, 1893. (= C. amblyphylla.) 

 ElaeodendroK australe: Hemsley, Ann. Bot. x, 234, 1896. (= E. curti- 



pendubnn.) 

 Calophyllum inophyllum : Hemsley, Ann. Bot. x, 232, 1896. 

 Nephelium semiglaucum : Tate, Macleay Mem. Vol. 220, 1893. (= Guioa 



coriacea.) 

 Cupania anacardioides : Hemsley, Ann. Bot. x, 234, 1896. (= Guioa coriacea.) 

 Xanthoxylum howeanum : Tate, Macleay Mem. Vol. 220, 1893. 

 Myrsine crassifolia : F. Muell., 'Fragm, Phytogr. Austr. viii, 48, 1873; Tate ; 



Hemsley (= Rapanea platystigma.) 

 Sideroxylon australe : Tate, Macleay Mem. Vol, 220, 1893. (= S. howeanum.) 

 Plantago varia : F. Muell., Fragm, Phytogr. Austr. ix, 78, 1875 ; Hemsley. 

 Ipomoea bona-nox : F. Muell., Fragm, Phytogr. Austr. ix, 74, 1875 ; Tate ; 



Hemsley. (= /. grandiflora.) 

 Brachycome diversifolia : Tate, Macleay Mem, Vol. 221, 1893. (= B. seg- 



mentosa.) 



Art. IX. — Botanical Results of an Excursion to the Upper Makarora 

 Valley and the Haast Pass, supported by a List of the Species observed. 



By D. L. Poppelwell. 



[Rear] before the Otayo Institute. 1st August, 1916 ; received by Editors, 30th December, 



1916 ; issued separately, 9th Jidy, 1917.] 



During the Christmas and New Year holidays of 1915-16 a party of four, 

 consisting of Messrs. G. Biggar, of Gore, 0. V. Davies and C. Seelye, of 

 Dunedin, and myself, visited the Upper Makarora Valley and Haast Pass 

 with the object of examining the flora and vegetation of that area. The 

 locality is of special interest from a phytogeographical point of view inas- 

 much as it was supposed to form the connecting-link between L. Cockayne's 

 Western and Fiord South Island Botanical Districts. (See p. 65 of this 

 volume, where the whole of Cockayne's proposed " districts " are defined.) 

 An investigation of the flora was therefore of great importance from the 

 standpoint of plant -distribution, since up to the present, so far as I know, 

 no botanical work whatever has been undertaken in the above area. 



The Haast Pass is situated about seventeen miles from the head of 

 Lake Wanaka, and is reached by following the Makarora Biver up to the 

 junction of the Fish River with the main stream. The Fish River is then 

 followed until the pass is encountered. The saddle is only about 1,850 ft. 

 above sea-level, and is clothed in forest. It is the watershed between the 

 Fish River and the Haast. 



In addition to examining this forest, we climbed the mountains 

 above the east side of the pass, reaching a height of 6,000 ft., noting 

 the plant-covering as we went. The upper line of the forest is about 



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