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7. The Egmont-Wanganui District (Central province). 5 
Here again the boundaries, as shown on the map, are quite uncertain, but 
the district includes the Wanganui coastal plain together with Mount Egmont. 
It was originally occupied by most extensive forests, Beulschmidia tawa forest 
being very characteristic. Cliff-vegetation of river-gorges is a striking feature 
of the district. Mt. Egmont bears quite a rich vegetation, but the alpine species 
number only about 100; Ourisia macrophylla and Ranunculus nivicola are 
extremely abundant. The species number 517; Senecio Turneri, Celmisia glan- 
dulosa var. latifolia, a var. of Carmichaelia australis and a var. of Veronica 
salwifolia are confined to the district. 
8. The Ruahine-Cook District (Central province). 
This comprises the Ruahine-Tararua-Rimutaka Mts. and the area to the 
eastern sea-board together with the small coastal plain W. of the Tararua Mts., 
the islands in Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds area, in the South 
Island, as shown on the map‘). Thegg are extensive taxad and beech forests, 
the. latter both lowland and Subafie The mountain-flora contains nearly all 
the species of the North Island mountains, and, in addition others belonging 
to the South Island but absent elsewhere in the North Island, e.g. — Des- 
champsia tenella, Triodia australis, Uncinia fusco-vaginata, Droseti stenopetala, 
Aciphylla conspicua, Pimelea Gnidia, Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium, Olearia 
excorticala, O. lacunosa, Celmisia hieracifolia and Senecio Adamsü. The total 
number of species for the district is 800, or more, of which the following are 
confined thereto: — Gahnia robusta, Carmichaelia odorata, Epilobium Cockayni- 
anum, Aciphylla  oreophila, Anisotome dissecta, Myosotis Astoni, Scutellaria 
novae-zelandiae (S.Island only), Veronica salicijolia var. Atkinsoni, V. rotundata, 
V. venustula, V. Colensoi, V. evenosa, V. Astoni, V. Olseni, Coprosma Buchanani, 
Helichrysum Loganii, Abrotanella pusilla, Senecia GreA and S: 
9. The North-eastern South Island’) Distsiet (Southern p 
This includes all the Marlborough Provincial District, excı 
area, together with that part?) of the Nelson Provincial District 2 
I) The sonen boundary, according to my recent observations, must be extended: to the 
north bank of the R. Wairau (Marlborough). This will bring in the high mountains forming - the 
northern watershed of the Wairau, so far as they lie Bet the average limit: a the western 
rainfall. This extension of the S. Island a of the R -Cook. distriet leads leads to sucha 
eonsiderable Abs 0 the number fa alpine lants, that the part o A the district i in question 
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