Manchester Memoirs^ Vol. xlvii. (1903), No. 10. 



X. Report on the Plants obtained by Mr. Rupert 

 Vallentin in the Falkland Islands, 1901-1902. 



By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S. 



Received and read March 17th, igoj. 



The Falkland Islands have been so fully described 

 and their chief botanical distinctions so amply characterised 

 in the exhaustive Flora Antarctica of Sir Joseph Dalton 

 Hooker, that very little remains to be said on the subject. 

 Mr. Rupert Vallentin has made two expeditions to this 

 most interesting group, the first some four years ago, and 

 the second last year, during which, at my request, he kindly 

 collected for me a small series of (mostly endemic) 

 species. In the accompanying catalogue I have appended 

 all Mr, Vallentin's remarks as to individual species ; 

 these add considerably to their interest and value. 



Mr. Vallentin's chief study was zoology, and Mr. 

 Standen and I have already published* the account of the 

 Mollusca obtained during his first voyage, while others 

 have described the Crustacea, etc. On this, his second 

 expedition, he collected a few interesting Mollusks, 

 which have yet to be worked out, and, as already re- 

 marked, the collection I am now exhibiting, which 

 includes nearly one-half of the whole native flora of the 

 Falkland Islands. 



The most striking plants are undoubtedly the Asorella 



* Journal of Conchology, Vol. X., pp. 43 sqq. 

 April 2^rd, ^9^3- 



