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EXPLANATION OF PLATES XII TO XXIIL 

 Plate XII. 

 Path of a hurricane tlxrough forest in Denham Bay, Sunday Island. The fallen trees 

 are Metrosideros villosa. Li centre, young shrubs of Myoporum Icetiim. 



Plate XIII. 



Ngaio scrub. Terraces. Sunday Island, showing ngaio {Myopormn Icetum) killed bj' 

 burrowing shearwaters (Puffinus chlororliynchus). The undergrowth is 3Iacropiper 

 excelsum major. 



Plate XIV. 



Gravel-flat vegetation, Denham Buy, Sunday Island. Ipomoea pes caprce in flower. 



Beyond, Scirpus nodosus. 



Plate X^'. 

 Vegetation on inland rocks. Terraces, Sunday Lsland. The ferns are Asplenium 



Shuttleworthianum. On right — below. Lobelia anceps ; above. Cydophortis serpens. 



Plate XVL 



Interior of dry forest, Denham Bay, Sunday Lsland. On left, Cyathea Milnei ; on 

 right. Rapanea kermadecensis. 



Plate XVII. 

 Literior of palm (Rhopalosfylis Baiiert) forest, Big Hill, Sunday Island. 



Plate XVIII. 

 Literior of wet forest on Momit Junction, Sunday Island. Trunks of Cyathea ker- 

 madecensis covered with Hymenophyllum demissum, and other ferns. 



Plate XIX. 



Landslip, Denham Bay, Sunday Island, showing rounded shrubs of Myoporum Icetum and 

 Coriaria sarmentosa. 



Plate XX. 

 Interior of pohutukawa {Metrosideros) forest, crater, Sunday Island. (Photo, W. L. 

 Wallace. ) 



Plate XXI. 

 Cyathea Milnei, Sunday Island. 



Plate XXII. 

 Cyathea kermadecensis. Sunday Island. 



Plate XXIIL 

 Flowering branch of Rapanea kermadecensis, Sunday Island, showing rolled leaves. 



