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IV. Mountain Region. Wet and wooded between the lower and 
higher cloud level, 3500—6000 feet. 
Metrosideros polymorpha (dwarf). Vittadinia (several species). 
Gunnera petalo a ea. Hedera platyphylla 
Coprosma pube Astelia Meyeniana. 
Labordea ELE, : 
V. Upper Mountain Region. A small region on the summits of 
West Máui and Kauai, which lies above 6000 feet, and which is not 
wooded. 
Viola eis es Wilkesia gymnoxiphium. 
V. Mavi Raillardia montana. 
testing exis var. hololeucum. Lobelia Gaudichaudii. 
Drosera longi Vaccinium at 
Acsna exigua. Oreobolus tus 
Lagenophora Maviensis and some Graminez. 
Argyroxiphium (two Loy 
(From the Memoirs of the Boston Society, vol. i. part iv. 1869.) 
REPORT OF THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BOTANIST 
AND DIRECTOR OF THE MELBOURNE BOTANIC 
Botanic Garden, Melbourne, 
14th September, 1868. 
SIR, : 
In compliance with your request, I have the honour of transmit- 
ting to you a succinct general Report on the work more recently per- 
formed in the Botanic Garden and its scientific institutions. Simul- 
taneously, I beg to point out what measures of progressive improve- 
ments might most advantageously oceupy the attention of the establish- 
ment during the next year. 
Since the great excavations at the Garden lake, and the earthworks 
connected therewith, were completed, it became possible, within the 
means available, to finish the various lines of walks, which now extend 
in the aggregate over 224 miles. All of these are lined with trees, 
unless they pass along special garden land. 
A considerable extent of these walks requires, however, yet to be 
