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pleasure in asso(;iatiiig the plant with the name of Mr. Cox, who for very 

 many years has supplied New Zealand botanists with copious suites of the 

 endemic plants of the Chatham Islands, often at considerable trouble to 

 himself. 



Angelica Gingidium Hook. f. 



Limestone rocks by the Rakanui River, Kawhia ; E. Phillips Turner I 

 Not previously recoi-ded from any station to the north of the Taupo countrj'. 



XXXVII. RUBIACEAE. 



Nertera Cunninghamii Hook. f. 



Wangapeka Valley, Nelson ; F. G. Gibbs ! 



XXXVIII. COMPOSITAE. 



Brachycome Thomsoni T. Kirk var. membranifolia. 



Cobb Valley, north-west Nelson ; F. G. Gibbs ! A slight northwards 

 extension of the range of this variable plant. 



Olearia virgata Hook. f. 



Attains its northern limit in the Ohinemuri Valley, Thames, between 

 Karangahake and Waitekauri ; T. F. C. 



Cotula pectinata Hook. f. 



Mount Ollivier and other mountains in the Mount Cook district, 



5,000-6,500 ft. ; T. F. C. 



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XLI. Campanulaceae. 



Pratia perpusilla Hook. f. 



Outlet of the Waikato River, Lake Taupo ; T. F. C. Low grounds in 

 the Thames Valley, near Te Aroha ; P. H. Allen ! 



XLV. Myrsinaceae. 



Myrsine divaricata A. Cunn. 



Mr. F. G. Gibbs forwards specimens of this species, from some locality 

 in the Nelson Provincial District, in which the leaves are coarsely and 

 irregularly toothed or almost lobed. 



XLVI. Sapotaceae. 

 Sideroxylon costatum F. Muell. 



This appears to be a very local plant on the west coast of the North 

 Island. So far as my own observations go, it is found in only two localities 

 — the first in the vicinity of Maunganui Bluff (between Hokianga and 

 Kaipara) ; the .second on the coast-line north of the Manukau Harbour, 

 when it occurs in scattered localities along a stretch of eight or ten miles of 

 coastal cliffs. On the eastern side of the Island it is much more generally 

 distributed, although nowhere abundant. 



The late Baron Mueller separated the New Zealand plant from that 

 found in Norfolk Island, giving it the name of Achras novo-zealandica 

 (Fragm. Phyt. Austral, vol. 9, p. 72). In this he was probably right, as has 

 been pointed out by Mr. Hemsley (" Kew Bulletin," 1908, p. 459). Under 



