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not. Probably many years will elapse before the peculiar plants 

 and birds are in any way interfered with by human residents. 



Descriptions of the new Species. 



1. Pittosporum fairchildi, n. sp. 



A small tree, 8-15 feet in height; branches rather slender, 

 bark brownish. Young branchlets and peduncles more or less 

 covered with whitish tomentum, which gradually disappears 

 as they mature. Leaves entire, alternate, often crowded, 

 variable in shape, obovate, elliptic- obovate, or elliptic-oblong, 

 2-4 inches long, obtuse or acute, gradually narrowed into 

 short stout petioles, coriaceous, bright-green and glossy above, 

 paler below, margins flat, veins finely reticulated, covered with 

 silky white hairs when young, but quite glabrous when old. 

 Flowers purplish, J inch long, in terminal 2- 4-flowered fas- 

 cicles, pedicels rather long, slender, decurved. Sepals linear- 

 oblong, acute, tomentose. Petals much larger, recurved. 

 Capsules terminal, 3-valved, J - 1 inch in diameter, depressed, 

 broader than long, glabrous, even when half-grown, valves 

 hard and woody, dark-brown, very finely wrinkled and pitted. 



I have named this fine species after Captain Fairchild, of the 

 s.s. Stella, through whose kindness I was enabled to land on 

 the islands. It is allied to P. crassifolium and P. umbellatum. 

 From the first it differs in the broader flat leaves, which are 

 quite glabrous when mature, and in the capsule, which is smaller 

 and much broader and flatter, besides being glabrous when com- 

 paratively young. From P. umbellatum it can at once be distin- 

 guished by the silky tomentose young leaves and branchlets, less 

 numerous flowers, and by the much larger differently-shaped 

 capsule. 



2. Coprosma macrocarpa, n. sp. 



A robust, leafy, glossy-green shrub, 5 -12 feet in height, 

 quite glabrous in all its parts ; bark dark greyish-brown. 

 Leaves coriaceous, but hardly so much so as in G. robicsta, 

 large, 4-7 inches long, 1| - 3£ inches broad, ovate-oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong, acute or apiculate, rather suddenly nar- 

 rowed into a short stout petiole, margins thickened ; veins 

 conspicuous, very finely reticulated. Stipules large, on the 

 young leafy shoots often sheathing the branch for some dis- 

 tance. Flowers not seen. Fruit much the largest of the genus, 

 very abundantly produced, in axillary fascicles of 3 - 7, | - 1 inch 

 long, broadly ovoid or oblong, or sometimes nearly orbicular, 

 not seen perfectly ripe. 



A very distinct plant, at once recognised by the large fruit, 

 which is more than twice the size of that of C. grandifolia or C. 

 robusta, which are its nearest allies. The leaves are often as 



