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24. Coprosma petiolata, Hook. f. 



Shores of Sunday, Macaulay, and Curtis Islands ; plentiful. 

 New Zealand, Lord Howe's Island, Norfolk Island. 



25. Coprosma acutifolia, Hook. f. 



Plentiful all over Sunday Island. The female flowers, 

 which were not known to Hooker, are on slender peduncles 

 \ - f inch long, which are either simple or trichotomously 

 divided, and bear from 4 to 12 flowers. Calyx with 4-5 

 linear teeth. Corolla tubular, 3- 5-lobed. Drupe oblong, 

 \ inch long, reddish orange. Distinguished from my 

 C. tenuifolia by its more slender habit, paler bark, smaller, 

 thinner, and more acuminate leaves, with different venation, 

 and by the much less compact inflorescence. Endemic. 



17. Composite. 



26. *Ageratum conyzoides, L. 



Sunday Island ; abundant, especially in abandoned 

 cultivations, where it forms a dense mass 2-3 feet high. 

 Known by the local name of " Cherry Pie," or " Wild 

 Heliotrope." Perhaps introduced, but it is truly native in 

 many parts of Polynesia. Abundant in the tropics of both 

 hemispheres. 



27. Lagenophora forsteri, D.C. 



Cliffs in Denham Bay, Sunday Island. New Zealand. 



28. Lagenophora petiolata, Hook. f. 



Kermadec Islands, Sir J. D. Hooker ("Handbook," 

 p. 137). Not observed by me. New Zealand. 



29. ' ;: Siegesbeekia orientalis, L. 



Sunday Island ; common in open sunny places in the 

 bush. Tropical Australia, Polynesia, India, China. 



30. Bidens pilosa, L. 



Sunday Island ; plentiful everywhere in open and rocky 

 places. New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, and tropical 

 countries generally. 



31. Cotula australis, Hook. f. 



Sunday Island ; not uncommon in waste places. New 

 Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, and Tristan d'Acunha. 



32. Gnaphalium luteo-album, L. 



Sunday and Macaulay Islands ; common. New Zealand, 

 Norfolk Island, Lord Howe's Island, Australia, and most 

 parts of the world. 



3. Gnaphalium involucratum , Forst. 



Sunday and Macaulay Islands ; not rare. New Zealand, 

 Norfolk Island, Lord Howe's Island, Australia, Japan. 



