claim, what a rich store of vegetable pro- 
ductions remains yet to be laid before us! 
for that here given is, perhaps, but a tithe 
9f what may one day be shown us—but a 
foretaste, to excite our desires to behold 
what the future labours of Botanists may, 
_ itis to be hoped, ere long, lay open to our 
eyes. Long since has that learned Botan- 
ist, Mr. Brown, remarked, that the character 
of the New Zealand Flora, known to us 
chiefly from the materials collected by Sir 
Joseph Banks, is to a considerable degree 
peculiar; although it bears also a certain 
ity to those of the two great countries 
between which it is situated, and approach- 
ing rather to that of Terra Australis, than 
to South America. The following brief 
concluding remarks will confirm these ob- 
servations. 
Tn the vast Order Leguminose, so ex- 
tensively distributed over the globe, so 
widely scattered in South America, and so 
abundant in their characteristic genera on 
the Australasian Continent, that family is 
absolutely limited to five plants in New 
^eaand; and what is worthy of observa- 
tion, three of the genera they constitute 
are almost confined to those islands, viz. 
dwardsia, Carmichaelia, and Clianthus. 
No plant of Mimosee has yet been seen in 
New Zealand, numerous as they are on the 
two continents. 
Of Proteacee, a family so extensive in 
New South Wales, especially between the 
thirty-third and thirty-fifth degrees of lati- 
tude, as to form a very striking feature of 
tts Flora, moreover abundant in southern 
Africa, and not unfrequent in South Ame- 
nea, within the same parallels (witness, in 
latter country, the genera Rhopala, 
rium, Guevina, and Lomatia), 
only one plant has been hitherto known to 
nists to represent that magnificent 
eg in New Zealand, and that has been 
recently, regarded as forming a ge- 
nus? peculiar to that country. 
ice on the Botany of Flinders, Voy. 
* Within the last t 
à genus h 
Australi 
the 
' en years, a species of Persoonia, 
itherto considered entirely confined to the 
an Continent, was observed at Wangaroa on 
coast of New Zealand. The Embothrium 
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The genus Plagianthus of Forster, of 
the family of which Botanists are divided 
in opinion, is perhaps limited? to those is- 
lands, and now consists of three species. 
Among the other remarkable plants con- 
stituting genera not known in other coun- 
tries, may be simply noticed one having a 
close affinity with Brexiacee and Celas- 
trinee, and in habit and general structure 
of flower according with the solitary genus 
of the former, but differing essentially in 
the character of the ovarium : and another, 
equally curious, that may be referred to 
Bombacee, with monadelphous stamens, 
and as far as it has been observed, a five- 
angled, five-celled ovarium ; to which the 
name of Hoheria is here proposed to be 
given. 
The Con:fere, as also the Myrtacee, 
although in neither family are there any 
genera that can be said to be limited to 
New Zealand, still, furnishing as they do, 
each several species, and these affording 
large and valuable timbers, they give a 
very striking character to the sylvan scenery 
of the northern islands especially. 
genera of the former family are refera- 
ble to Dammara, Dacrydium, Podocar- 
pus, and Phyllocladus ; and those of the 
latter, to Metrosideros, Eugenia, and Myr- 
tus. Those Coniferous genera that have 
been referred to Dacrydium (Soland.) and 
Podocarpus, require certainly a further 
examination of more perfect specimens 
than have been hitherto seen by Botanists, 
in order to determine fully the genera to 
which the several species really belong. 
Lying, as the islands of New Zealand 
do, between the two great continents of 
South America and Australasia, in which 
latter may be included Van Diemen's Land, 
it may not wholly be uninteresting to the 
botanical reader to observe the affinities 
strobolinum of M. Labillardiére, a plant, regarding 
ose genus, as also the habitat assigned it by that 
wh 
Botaaists of 
author, doubts have been entertained by 
late years, Mr. Brown has bad an opport 
a oe 3 £ th + 
3 Sir W. J. Hooker has referred a plant of Van 
Diemen’s Land to this genus with a mark of doubt. 
