Ecological Botany.'] 



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Siilbocarpa polaris is a far-spreading evergreen herb. It has a very stout 

 rhizome, 6 cm. (more or less) in diameter, which creeps along the surface of the 

 ground, giving off numerous orbicular-reniform leaves. These are bright green. 



Fio. 3. — Stilbocarpa polaris koruinu a cuikk-obowino mass in the I'leiirophyiluin Meadow, 



Adams Island. 



Juvenile Dracophylliim loiigi/oliiim iu tlie background. 



fleshy, coriaceous, about 20 cm. long by 30 cm. broad, strongly ribbed beneath, and 

 raised on stout, hollow petioles about 50 cm. long (fig. 3). The flowers are small, 

 fleshy, greenish in colour with a brown centre, very numerous, and arranged in 



