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is only again met with in Norfolk Island and New Holland. Edwardsia 
(Sophora) grandiflora is common in Chili, Chiloe, and Juan Fernandez ; but, 
euriously enough, the genus is not found in Tasmania or Australia, where 
plants of the same natural order are so very common : this small genus only 
possesses some six or seven species, two of which, according to De Candolle, 
are confined to the Isle of Bourbon. -Acena has two species in Tasmania 
and Australia (one of them being the common New Zealand one), 
and several in South America, and in the Antarctic and Kerguelen's 
Islands. Fuchsia, a large genus; yet, out of New Zealand, is only 
found in South America, from Mexico to the Straits of Magellan. 
Epilobium, an extensive European genus, is also found in south-east 
and south-west Australia, in western South America, in the Antarctic 
Islands, and in Tasmania; but “is more abundant in New Zealand 
than in any other part of the globe;"* the six species found in Tas- 
mania are all natives of New Zealand. Haloragis is found in south-east 
Australia, Tasmania, and Juan Fernandez. Metrosideros, in south Chili, the 
Cape, and Australia. Leptospermum, in south-east Australia and Tasmania. 
Myrtus, in Chili and at Cape Horn. Montia fontana, the only plant of this 
genus, is also abundant at Cape Horn, Kerguelen’s Land, the Antarctic 
Islands, and Tasmania. Weinmannia, at the Cape, Madagascar, the Isle of 
Bourbon, Tahiti, and south Chili. Ligustiewm and Angelica, several species 
in the Antarctic Islands. Panaz,—our New Zealand species have close 
alliance with species in the Antarctic Islands and Chili ; one small species 
alone of this genus is found in Tasmania, the only representative in that 
island of the natural order (Araliacee) to which it belongs; of which 
order, also, only eight or ten species are found in Australia. Meryta, a 
singular genus of only four or five species, two of which are found in Nor- 
folk Island and one in Tahiti. The fine composite genera, Olearia and 
Celmisia, are also found in Australia and Tasmania ; the latter genus, how- 
ever, so well developed in New Zealand, is only feebly so by a single species 
in each of these two countries. Of the smaller Composite, Lagenophora, a 
small genus, is also found in Antarctic America, the Falkland Islands, Aus- 
alia, and Tasmania. Abrotanella is confined to New Zealand, Tasmania, 
the Antarctic Islands, Fuegia, and Kerguelen’s Land; and Microseris, a 
genus of only two species, is found in Tasmania and west Chili. Olea has 
a closely allied species in Norfolk Island, and others at the Cape, Mauritius, 
and Bourbon. Sapota costata is also found in Norfolk Island. Forstera is 
confined to New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fuegia. JDracophyllum, so well 
developed in New Zealand, extends south to the Antarctic Islands, east to 
