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Willcoxu and Senecio southlandicus. The western highlands of the district 
possess a number of species otherwise confined to the Fiord district‘). 
15. The Fiord District (Southern province). 
This district occupies all the area pierced by the Otago fiords and subject 
to the extremely heavy westerly downpour. Its eastern and northern bound- 
aries as given on the map are not to be relied upon. The chief characteristics 
are the presence of Nothofagus-taxad forest on the W. and almost pure Notho- 
Fagus forest on the E.; the well-defined coastal shrub of Olearza operina, Tr 
rotundifolius, Veranda elliptica and other shrubs; the extensive herb-field 
er the mountains with abundance of Celmisia Petriei, C. verbascifolia, Ourisia macro- 
7 carpa var. cordata and Dracophyllum Mensziesii and Ranuneiulhs Buchanani on 
stony ground at high levels. The total number of species for the district 
is probably over 700 of which possibly the following are confined thereto: 
— Agrostis magellanica, Danthonia ovata, D. planifolia, Poa oraria, Poa ie 
sp. ‚(decumbent on rock in drip of a. Elaeocharis acicularis, Uneinia 
fenella, Carex plesiostachys, Colobanthus Buchanani, Ranunculus Maske 
R. Basen, Pimelea Crosby-Smithiana, Epilobium arcuatum, Aciphylla " 
multisecta, A. congesta, Anisotome Lyallüi, A. capillifolia, Myosotis Lyallüi, an 
Gentiana Matthewsi, G. flaccida, Veronica Matthewsii, Ourisia macrocarpa, 
var. cordata, ÖOlearia operina, O. Crosby-Smithmana, Celmisia holosericea, 
Raoulia Buchanani and Senecio bifistulosus. 
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16. The Stewart District (Southern province). 
This comprises Stewart Island and its adjacent islets zagekker with all the 
islands of Foveaux Strait and the Solanders. 
The most characteristic features of the vegetation are, — two u of 
forest, the one a rimu-kamahi association and the other swamp-forest of Da- 
 erydium intermedium; scrubs of Senecio rotundi, ifolius and Olcaria angustifolia 
on the coast; lowland en a moor; 
Olearia Colensoi scrub an d her 
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