Fig. 461. Montane region, upper belt, and Alpine region, lower belt, of the South 

 Island of New Zealand, at 660 meters above sea-level. Valley of the river Craigieburn. 

 In the background : beech-forest. To the left on the top of the mountain : screes 

 with shrubby species of Veronica, Celmisia, Dracophyllum, Coprosma, Podocarpus 

 nivalis. From a photograph by Cockayne. 



To face p. 760] 



