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CoNVOLVULACEiE, 



Ipomoea pes caprae (L.), Roth. 



Flowers November to April. Fasciation was noted in one plant on tlie 

 north coast of Sunday Island. Fourteen stems were joined in one. 



Gravel flat, sand dunes, coastal rocks, Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Australia, Tonga, tropics. 



Ipomoea palmata, Forsk. 



Sea-clifis, bufialo-grass meadow, Sunday Island. 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, 

 tropics. 



Calystegia sepium (L.), R. Br. 



Waste places on Simday Island (Cheeseman). 

 New Zealand, Australia, cosmopolitan. 



Calystegia Soldanella (L.), R. Br. 



Coastal rocks, gravel flat, Sunday Island. 

 •Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, cosmopoUtan. 



SOLANACE.i:. 



Solanum aviculare, Forst. f. 



Forest, Sunday Island. Macauley Island (Cheeseman). 

 Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia. 



Solanum nigrum, L. 



A pubescent and a glabrous variety were noticed, the former on the 

 Herald Islets, the latter in waste places on Sunday and Meyer Islands. 

 Macauley Island (Cheeseman). Mariscus slopes, Curtis Island (pubescent 

 variety). 



Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, 

 cosmopolitan. 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 



Veronica breviracemosa, n. sp. 



V. fruticosa, 1-2 m. alta, ramis ultimis subcompressis, puberulis. Folia 

 sessilia, patula, 80-115 mm. longa, 20-27 mm. lata, elUptico-lanceolata v. 

 oblongo-Ianceolata, acuta, Integra, glabra. Racemi 4-5 cm. longi, dense- 

 fl-ori, puberuli, foliis breviores. Calyx 4-partitus, lobis ovato-lanceolatis, 

 acutis, puberulis. Corolla 4-partita, calyce ^ longior ; tubo breve calyce 

 h breviora ; lobis ovatis, acutis. Capsula 6 mm. longa, calyce h longior, 

 late ovata, acuta, compressa, glabra. 



An irregularly laxly branched shrub, about 1 m. high ; branchlets green, 

 2-angled, puberulous. Leaves sessile, spreading, 115 x 27 mm., 57 x 19 mm., 

 80 X 20 mm., elUptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, narrowed at the 

 base, entire, Ught green, glabrous, minutely puberulous on the midrib and 

 margins near the base. Racemes 4-5 cm. long, shorter than the leaves, 

 flowers crowded ; rachis, pedicels, and bracts puberulous. Flowers 5 mm. 

 in diameter, white to pale hlac. Calyx 4-partite, the two inner divisions 

 smaller than the two outer, segments lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 puberulous. Corolla 1| times the length of the calyx ; tube short, about 

 half the length of the sepals ; limb 4-lobed, lobes ovate, acute, 3 outer 

 opposed to 1 inner. Capsule 1| times the length of the calyx, 6 mm. long, 

 acute, broadly ovate, compressed, glabrous. 



