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the Chatham Islands, and north to New Caledonia; one species is also found 
in New South Wales. The large tropical genus Myrsine, containing above 
eighty species, of which fifty are Brazilian and Indian, and thirty insular,— 
from the West India Islands to the Sandwich Islands and Borneo, and 
southwards in Norfolk Island, New Zealand, and the Antarctic Islands,— 
is not found in Tasmania (where there are no plants of the whole natural 
order) and has only three species in Australia. Geniostoma, a small and 
wholly insular genus of only three species, one of which is found in the Isle 
of Tanna and another in the Isle of Bourbon. Calceolaria (another curious 
instance like that of Fuchsia) is only found besides in western South 
America, where it is common. Veronica, a large cosmopolite genus, is com- 
paratively scarce in Tasmania and Australia ; it abounds however throughout 
the New Zealand group and the Antarctic Islands, and is also found in the 
Falklands. Ovwrisia is found in Fuegia, and has one small species in Tas- 
mania, Myoporum, in Tasmania and south-east Australia. Atherosperma, a 
very small genus containing only three other species, one of which is found 
in Tasmania and one in south Chili. Pimelea is well represented in Aus- 
tralia and Tasmania, while Knightia has only one other species, and that in 
New Caledonia. Drapetes, a small genus of only four species, one of which 
is found in Fuegia, and another as far north as the alpine mountains of 
Borneo. -Australina, a curious small genus of only two species, one of which | 
is in Tasmania. .Elatostemma, another small genus, has a second species in 
the Society Islands. Euphorbia glauca is also found in Norfolk Island. 
Piper excelsum is also found in Norfolk Island, and has allied species in the 
Fiji and other South Sea Islands ; so also has Peperomia. Ascarina, a small 
genus of only two species, one of which is in the Sandwich Islands. Fagus, 
a genus in the southern hemisphere, confined to south Chili, Fuegia, 
Tasmania, and New Zealand. Dammara, a small genus, one species of which 
is found so far north as La Perouse or Vanicolla Island, 11° 40' S., 167° E 
which, with another species said to be in the Fiji Islands, are all that are 
known in the southern hemisphere. Libocedrus (Thuja) doniana is closely 
allied to the *alerse," a highly useful species (Thuja tetragona), found in 
south Chili. Podocarpus is found in south Chili, and one small bushy 
species is found in Australia and Tasmania. Dacrydium has one noble 
species in Tasmania, the celebrated Huon pine, and several in the Polynesian 
Islands. Phyllocladus, a small genus of four species, one of which is in 
Tasmania, and one has lately been discovered so far north as the alpine 
mountains of Borneo. Most of the New Zealand orchideous genera, and 
some of the species, are found in Australia, Tasmania, and the Antarctic 
Islands. Rhipogonum, a genus of only two species, has one species in 
New Holland. Callirene, a genus of only three species, has two species 
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