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 forming flattened or rounded masses. The bark is of a dull reddish-brown 
and frequently hangs in long strips from the horizontal branches. The leaves 
are lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 3—5 cm long, thick, stiff, coriaceous and 
bright-green with a yellow midrib. The flowers are very numerous, bright- 
crimson and arranged in short terminal cymes. 
The purely, or almost, endemic species of physiognomic importance are: 
 .— Danthonia antarctica‘), Poa foliosa?), P.litorosa, Chrysobactron Rossi, 2 species 
i of Anisotome, Stilbocarpa polaris, Dracophyllum subantarcticum, Olearia Lyallii 
= and 3 species of Pleurophyllum. 
The 3 grasses of the above list are of the tussock form, all build trunks, 
at times, those of Poa Zitorosa attaining a height of 1.5; m. The leaves of all 
are coriaceous, those af P. foliosa are bright-green and flat, of P. /itorosa rather 
stiff, filiform and involute and of D. antarctica thick, involute and pale or yellow- 
ish green. 
Chrysobactron Rossi Hook. f. (Liliac.) is a summer-green herb with a short, 
stout rootstock and numerous leaves arranged somewhat like those of a garden 
hyacinth. They are linear, 29 cm X 9 cm, bright green and fleshy, the outer 
ones curved outwards and the inner erect but all so bent as to make channels 
down which water is conducted to the long, thick, fleshy roots. The flowers 
, are dioecious, orange coloured, in dense racemes terminating stout scapes 30 cm, 
or more long. The male inflorescence may be 1ocm X5cm and is larger 
and more showy than the female. 
Anisotome latıfolia and A. antipoda (Umbell.) are stately herbs of the 
Acıphylla-form with large, erect, thick, coriaceous, long-petioled, dark-green, 
pinnate leaves, about 60 cm long, and an ulineanehce of compound umbels 
forming a head of great size, borne on a stout stalk 73 cm high. The two species 
are closely related but. A. antipoda has the leaves much more finely divided. 
 Stlbocarpa polaris (Araliac.) much resembles S. Lyallii already described a 
for Stewart Island but there are no stolons, the bright-green, fleshy, coriaceous, 
‚orbicular-reniform leaves, 20 cm long x 30 cm ‚broad, are bristly on both sur- 
faces and there is a stout, branching thizome, 6 6cm Kinver less) i in oc u 2 
. ereeps along the surface of the ground. A 
: Dracophylium subantarcticum®) (Epacrid.) is si ordinary erect Dracı- : 
Phyllum-form and about 1.5 m high; it needs no special description. ss 
Pleurophyllum speciosum (Compos.) is a semi-summer-green herb. of great: 
Size with 4—5 bright-green, fleshy, coriaceous, ovate ’ \ 
= x 39 cm broad, age in a en rosette. On the undersurface of er 
