2 
The plant figured and described above is one of the most interesting 
of the species represented in a collection made in Fiji by Sir Everard 
im Thurn, when Governor of the group. The accompanying field-note 
is :— Yellow-flowered tree in the jungle beyond the tennis court. 
Very conspicuous.’ 
his is the first member of the natural family Proteaceae to be 
recorded from Fiji; it also extends the known distribution of the 
family in an easterly direction. 
The genus Kermadecia is a small one, till now believed to include 
only five species, four endemic in New Caledonia, one in Queensland. 
and all the leaves distinctly pinnate. K. austro-caledonica, Benth. 
leaves, while the Australian K. Bleasdalei, Benth. et Hook. f., has com- 
ound leaves with serrated leaflets and short racemes with nearly 
sessile flowers.—W. B. Turrit. 
Fic. 1, a pair of flower-buds; 2, a single open flower; 3, upper portion of a 
perianth segment with stamen ; 4, a pair of of pistils, in situ, the perianth removed ; 
5, longitudinal section of a pistil. All enlarged. 
