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MoNIMIACE^E. 



Hedycarya arborea, Forst. 



Forest, Preservation Inlet. This habitat is cited because 

 the neighbourhood of Jackson's Head is given in the " Forest 

 Flora " as the then-known southern limit of this plant on the 

 west of the South Island. 



Ckucifer^ . 



Cardamine enysii, Cheeseman. 



On rocks, source of Nigger Creek, Candlestick Mountains, 

 northern Canterbury, at altitude of about 1,400 m. 



Rosacea. 

 Acsena glabra, Buchanan. 



A frequent plant of subalpine shingle-slips and dry stonv 

 ground in all parts of the eastern climatic region of the Wai- 

 makariri, Canterbury. 



Geum uniflorum, Buchanan. 



An extremely common plant . of subalpine and alpine 

 meadows and moist, shady, rocky places in Westland. 



LEGUMlNOSiK. 



Swainsonia novae-zelandiae, Hook. f. 



Growing on shady side of a shingle-slip facing east, in fine 

 stony debris which is rather moist ; some of the plants under 

 shade of stunted beech-trees, Mount Torlesse Range, at alti- 

 tude of 1,010 m. I also saw it at 1,050 m., growing on 

 summit of a rock in very shallow soil in shade, and again at 

 1,100 m. as a plant of the alpine meadow growing on a steep 

 slope of dry stony loam facing north and north-east. 



Rutace^. 



Melicope mantellii, Buchanan. 



In low forest near River Hapuka. Kaikoura district, Marl- 

 borough. 



EL.EOCARPACE.E. 



Elaeocarpus hookerianus, Raoul. 



Forest on Bluff Hill, Southland (Captain and Mrs. J. 

 Bollons). 



Araliace^. 



Nothopanax simplex (Forst. f.), Seem., var. parvum, Kirk. 



(1.) On river-flat, Kelly's Creek, Westland (D. Petrie and 

 L. Cockayne). (2.) Now forming a portion of the new growth 

 where the forest was cleared some years ago for the Midland 

 Railway, near the River Teremakau, Westland. 



