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Lythraceae. 



Lyihrum hyssojrifolium L., M. 35. 



A palaearctic plant, and almosl certainly introduced. Occurs at Emily 

 Bay and Bloody Bridge. 



Myrtaceae. 



Maiden records Rhodomyrtus psidioides, M. 34, an Australian rose- 

 myrtle. He regards it as only doubtfully indigenous. I did not get it, 

 and think that it has been possibly an escape from cultivation. The com- 

 plete, or almost complete, absence of the Myrtaceae from the island is note- 

 worthy. 



^.RALIACEAE. 



138. Meryta latifolia (Endl.) Seem., M. 45. (= Botryodendron latifolium 



Endl., E. 119.) 



Apparently becoming less common on the island. 

 Endemic. 



139. Meryta angustifolia (Endl.) Seem., M. 46. {= Botryodendron angusbi- 



folium Endl., E. 120.) 



Common in moister forest. 

 Endemic. 



Umbelliferae. 



140. Apium prostratum (Thouars.) Labill., M. 43. 



A common coastal plant. The form on the island is var. a of Cheeseman. 

 Kermadecs, Lord Howe. New Zealand, and widely in the Southern 

 Hemisphere. 



Apium leptopkyllum F. v. M. is a common weed, generally found in 

 gardens, and is probably naturalized — M. 14. 



141. Daucus brachiatus Sieb. 



Collected by H. C. Quintal!, and forwarded me by Mr. W. R. B. Oliver. 



I add this tentatively to the list of natives. It seems cpiite possible 

 that it may be indigenous, and that it may have been overlooked by previous 

 collectors. 



New Zealand. Chatham Islands. Australia (?), western America. 



Myrsinaceae. 



142. Rapanea crassifofia (R. Br.) Mez.. M. 63. ( = Myrsine crassifolia 



Endl., E. 95.) 



One of the common trees on the island. 



Australia, and close to the Kermadec Rapanea kermadecensis Cheesem. 

 1 know nothing of Suttonia (?) tenvifolia Mez. ("Pflanzenreich," heft 9, iv, 

 p. 335). 



Plumb aginaceae. 



I cannot accept Plumbago zeylanica Linn., E. 87, M. 11, as indigenous. 

 1 only saw it in garden hedges. Dr. Metcalf and other old residents told 

 me it was certainly imported, and never found except on land that had 

 been occupied by gardens. It was introduced in the convict days, and may 

 possibly have escaped from cultivation to some extent at one time, but there 

 is no sign of it now outside certain hedges. Cunningham found it on Phillip 



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