706 THE FLORA OF NORFOLK ISLAND, 



UMBELLIFER^. 



43. Apium prostratum, Labill. {S. australe, Thouars).— Called 

 " Wild Celery." 



44. Apium leptophyllum, F.v.M. — New for the Island. 



ARALIACE^. 



45. Meryta latifolia, Seem., Bonplandia, 1862, p. 265. (Syn. 

 Botryodendron latifolium^ Endl., Prod. Korf. 119. See also 

 F.V.M., Fragm. ix. 169).— Called "Shade-tree" on the Island. 

 It is now rare. 



" Here also, as well as in most of the other shady woods throughout the 

 island, Botryodendron latifoUum, a shrub of singular form, allied to the Ivy, 

 but of a very different appearance, prevails. Its figure may be compared to 

 that of a long-leaved cabbage, mounted on a broom-stick. Its stem is about 

 five feet high, and five inches round; its largest leaves are about two feet long, 

 and one foot broad. The prisoners in the out-stations wrap their bread in these 

 leaves, and bake it in the ashes. The fruit is a dense cluster of greenish 

 purple berries, not edible, produced in the centre of the crown of leaves" 

 (Backhouse, p. 270). 



46. Meryta angustifolia, Seem., Bonplandia, 1862, 295. 

 (Syn. Botryodendron angustifoliuvi, Endl., Prod. Norf. 120. See 

 also F.v.M., Fragm. ix. 169). 



EUBIACE^. 



47. CoPROSMA Baueri, Endl., Iconogr. t. 111. — This plant is 

 very common in New Zealand. I did not find it in Norfolk 

 Island; it is probably rare. 



48. CoPROSMA lucida, Forst., Char. Gen. 138. 



Coprosma lucida, Forst., Endl., Prod. p. 60. "I am by no means clear 

 that this plant is not distinct from Forster's plant which I gathered at New 

 Zealand in 1826, in having broader emarginated leaves" (A. Cunn, MSS. ). 



Originally found by Bauer at Anson Bay. 



49. CoPROSMA pilosa, Endl., Prod. Norf. 60. — This is some- 

 times called " Shark wood " on the Island because " after rain the 

 shrub smells like dead shark." 



