2IO C. SKOTTSBERG 



buted from Australia to Malays., Melan. and Polyn. with a secondary centre in 

 Hawaii (i8); entirely absent from Amer. 



Hookeri (G. Don) \V. R. B. Oliver {1^2). Forms a separate monotypical section. 



pyrifolia (Hook, et Arn.) Skottsb. Belongs to a section of 8 Polyn. sp. (4 

 Tahiti, i Cook Is., i Rapa, 1 Pitcairn, i J. Fern.). 



CaliiDH L. World-wide, essentially boreal. Over 500 have been described, almost 

 ^'4 of these Medit.-Orient.; about 50 in S. Amer., mostly along the Andes and 

 extending south to Fueg., Falkl. and S. Georgia. 



masaftierantim Skottsb. Related to C criocarpuin Bartl., DC. and tricJiocar- 

 pu))i DC. (both Coquimbo-Cord. Linares), the fruit as in masafueraimm covered 

 with straight bookless hairs. 



Campanulaceae. 



Wahlciibergia Schrad. l^ssentially S. African; about 230 sp. (9 S. Amer., 10 S. 

 Fur.-Oricnt.. 2 or 3 St. Helena, 20 trop. Afr., 6 Madag.-Mascar., 150S. Afr., 9 As., 

 I \. (iuin., 8 Austral., 8 N. Zeal, 5 J. Fern,). 



Larrainii (Bert, ex Colla) Skottsb., fern andeziana A. DC. p. p. and Grahamae 

 Hemsl. are closely related to each other. 



Masafuerae (Phil.) Skottsb. approaches the former, but has the large tuber 

 of the following. 



Berteroi Hook, et Arn. occupies a rather independent position. 



Most African species are annuals and quite unlike the island species, and 

 these have little in common with the single Chilean or the other American forms, 

 nor with those from Australia or N. Zealand, even if there is a superficial likeness 

 between /['. Masafuerae and a couple of perennial S. African species such as 

 //'. lickloiiii Buek and oxypJiylla A. DC. On the other hand, the resemblance 

 between the J. Fernandez and St. Helena species is quite striking, and in spite of 

 the difference in the number of carpels, the ovary being trimerous in the former 

 and dimerous in the latter, the possibility of a common origin cannot be dismissed. 

 The number of carpels in the genus varies between 2 and 5; in most species 

 tiiey arc 3. Hkmsi.ev {i2y. 61) regarded the St. Helena species as allied to African 

 and Juan I^Y'rnandez species. 



Lobelia L. 350-370; particularly numerous in Amer. and Afr., less so in As., 

 Austral, and Oceania, 2 in Juir. 



alata Labill. S. Chile, S. Afr., Austral. A sea-side sp. 



Compositae. 



Lagenop flora Forst. A biccntric austr.-subantarct. genus of 16 sp., most numerous 

 in Austral. -N. Zeal.; Fiji, Rapa, extending north to Philipp. Is. and Hawaii. 



JIario/i I^Vanch. Andes of S. Chile to Fueg. 

 ]-j-io;ero}i L. A large bor.-temp. genus. Ind. Kew. lists about 700 sp. as valid, 

 half of them in X. Amer. and about lOO in S. Amer., where the genus is richly 

 developed along the Andes, south to Patag., Fueg. and Falkl. Not few are known 

 from tro{). mountains in the W. and P2. hemispheres; very few reported from 



