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Halorrhagidace.iE. 



Halorrhagis erecta (Murray), Scliindler. 



Landslip (Denham Bay), buffalo-grass meadow, Sunday Island. Mac- 

 auley Island (Cheeseman). 

 New Zealand, Australia. 



ARALIACEiE. 



Nothopanax arboreum (Forst. f.), Seem, 



Wet forest, Sunday Island. 

 New Zealand. 



Umbellifer^. 



Hydrocotyle moschata, Forst. f. 



Damp banks, open spaces in tutu scrub (crater), Sunday Island. 

 New Zealand. 



Apium prostratum, Lab. 



Coastal rocks, sand dunes, Sunday Island. 



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

 S. Africa, S. America. 



Myrsinace^. 

 Rapanea kermadecensis (Cheeseman), Mez. 



Seedling. The exocarp is raised above the ground on tke top of the 

 kypocotyle before being cast off. Hypocotyle erect, terete, reddish, 3 cm. 

 high. Cotyledons 2, or sometimes 3, broadly obovate or orbicular, 8-10 mm. 

 long, obscurely serrate, dark green. First leaves broadly obovate, cuneate 

 at the base, obtuse, distal half bluntly serrate, green, petiolate ; lamina 

 12-15 mm. long. Following few leaves similar, but larger, and serrations 

 more pronounced. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, small, greenish with dark spots ; calyx 5-lobed ; 

 lobes triangular, 1 mm. long, the edges beset with short thick hairs. Corolla 

 divided nearly to the base into 5 lobes ; lobes 2 mm. long, revolute, oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, edges fringed with short thick hairs. Anthers sessile 

 on the lobes of the corolla, sagittate, 1 mm. long. Ovary globose ; stigma 

 large, sessile, capitate, lobed. 



Fruit globose, sunken at the top, dark purple, 1-seeded, 7-8 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Flowers from August through the summer, ripe fruit February to June 

 (chiefly). Flowers and ripe fruit may be seen on the same twig. 



Forest, Sunday Island. Scrub, Meyer Island. 



Endemic. Allied to R. crassifolia (R. Br.), Mez., of Norfolk Island and 

 Australia. 



Primulace^. 



Samolus repens (Forst.), Pers., var. striata, Cockayne. 



Coastal rocks, Sunday Island. Dayrell Islet. 



Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Austraha, New Caledonia (distribution 

 of the species). 



