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serratus, Sophora microphylla, Griselinia littoralis, Aristotelia racemosa. At 
times the shrubby Urtca ferox is common. 
e. Southern coastal forest. 
Throughout much of Southern botanical province the forest near the sea 
is merely the ordinary lowland tree-association of the neighbourhood, but, in 
exposed positions, with certain wind- and spray-resisting members more abun- 
dant. Macropiper is still extremely plentiful on Banks Peninsula; Myoporum, 
in many places, dominates the shore-forest of the South Otago district; along 
the whole E. coast where forest can exist, Melicytus ramiflorus is an important 
gregarious tree. 
On the flat ground above the cliffs to the S. of Westport, the forest is 
wind-shorn Nothofagus-taxad with stunted, dense N. Solanderi dominant. Other 
important constituents are: — Phyllocladus alpinus, N. fusca, Weinmannia 
racemosa, Metrosideros robusta and Dracophyllum longifolium. The principal 
lianes are, — Freycinetia and Metrosideros scandens. 
Along the coast of the northern part of the Western district, there is a 
narrow strip of strongly wind-shorn forest. This, between Greymouth and 
'Hokitika, consists of stunted taxad-forest with Podocarpus dacrydioides and 
Dacrydium cupressinum, 6—9 m high, dominant and the branches of the first- 
named are much more widely-extended than usual, also Carpodetus, Wein- 
mannıa racemosa, Aristotelia racemosa, Fuchsia excorticata, Rapanea salicina, 
Coprosma lucida, C. foetidissima, C. areolata. Griselinia lucida and Astelia 
Cunninghamii are common epiphytes. Metrosideros scandens and Aubus 
australis are the principal climbers. ; Pen 
In the southern part of the Western district, where the shingle-beach 
slopes upwards to the land, as near the mouth of the Paringa and at Bruce = ’ 
Bay, a girdie of trees stands in front of the taxad-forest, which itself bears 
not the slightest evidence of 5 proximity to a wind-swept coast. The asso- 
ciation consists of: — ee australis, Hedycarya arborea, Sophora 
Sa Coriaria ruscifolia, Weinmann:  Plagianthus betulı. 
tus ramiflor ea ERPUIEFAONER scoparium, Be Ana IC) 
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