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is only again met with in Norfolk Island and New Holland. Sdwardsia 

 {Sopliord) grandiflora is common in Chili, CMloe, and Juan Fernandez ; but, 

 curiously enough, the genus is not found in Tasmania or Australia, where 

 plants of the same natural order are so very common : this small genus only 

 possesses some six or seven species, two of which, according to De CandoUe, 

 are Confined to the Isle of Bourbon. Accena has two species in Tasmania 

 and Australia (one of them being the common New Zealand one), 

 and several in South America, and in the Antarctic and Kerguelen's 

 Islands. Fuchsia, a large genus ; yet, out of New Zealand, is only 

 found in South America, from Mexico to the Straits of Magellan. 

 Epilolium, an extensive European genus, is also found in south-east 

 and south-west Australia, in western South America, in the Antarctic 

 Islands, and in Tasmania ; but " is more abundant in New Zealand 

 than in any other part of the globe ;"* the six species found in Tas- 

 mania are all natives of New Zealand. Saloragis is found in south-east 

 Australia, Tasmania, and Juan Eernandez. Iletrosideros, in south Chili, the 

 Cape, and Australia. Le]jtospermum, in south-east Australia and Tasmania. 

 Myrtus, in ChiH and at Cape Horn. Montia fontana, the only plant of this 

 genus, is also abundant at Cape Horn, Kerguelen's Land, the Antarctic 

 Islands, and Tasmania. Weinmannia, at the Cape, Madagascar, the Isle of 

 Bourbon, Tahiti, and south Chili. Ligusticum and Angelica, several species 

 in the Antarctic Islands. Panax, — our New Zealand species have close 

 alliance with species in the Antarctic Islands and Chili ; one small species 

 alone of this genus is found in Tasmania, the only representative in that 

 island of the natural order (Araliacecs) to which it belongs ; of which 

 order, also, only eight or ten species are found in Australia. Meryta, a 

 singular genus of only four or five species, two of which are found in Nor- 

 folk Island and one in Tahiti. The fine composite genera, Olearia and 

 Celmisia, are also found in Australia and Tasmania ; the latter genus, how- 

 ever, so well developed in New Zealand, is only feebly so by a single species 

 in each of these two countries. Of the smaller Compositse, Lagenophora, a 

 small genus, is also found in Antarctic America, the Falkland Islands, Aus- 

 tralia, and Tasmania. Alrotanella is confined to New Zealand, Tasmania, 

 the Antarctic Islands, Euegia, and Kerguelen's Land ; and Microseris, a 

 genus of only two species, is found in Tasmania and west Chili. Olea has 

 a closely allied species in Norfolk Island, and others at the Cape, Mauritius, 

 and Bourbon. Sapota costata is also found in Norfolk Island. Forstera is 

 confined to New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fuegia. Dracophyllum, so well 

 developed in New Zealand, extends south to the Antarctic Islands, east to 



* Mora Tasmauiae, Vol. I., p. 116. 



