420 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Systematic Botany. 



One of the chief components of the forest which clothes the lower slopes of the 

 Auckland Islands, also of the scrub of Campbell Island. According to Hooker, it 

 sometimes attains a height of 25 ft., with a trunk 1| ft. in diameter. The majority 

 of the specimens from the Auckland Islands agree with those from Stewart Island 

 and the sounds of the west coast of Otago, but others, with shorter and narrower 

 leaves, answering to the var. retortum, figured by Hombron in the " Voyage au Pole 

 sud," come much nearer to the mountain form so common in the Southern Alps, 

 and show a marked approach to D. Urvilleanum. 



It is curious that neither Gaultheria nor Pernettya occur in the Auckland Islands, 

 seeing that in South America species of these genera advance as far south as Cape 

 Horn, S. lat. 56°. 



Dracophyllum scoparium, Hook. f. 



Dracophyllum scoparium, Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 46, t. 33 (1844). D. 

 Urvilleanum, var. scoparium, Hook, f., Handb. N.Z. FL, 182, in part 

 (1853). 



Campbell Island : Common near the sea ; Hooker, Kirk ! Cockayne ! Laing ! 

 Chambers ! (Chatham Islands.) 



Two forms of the species, as I understand it, occur on Campbell Island: one 

 is the plant figured by Hooker in the " Flora Antarctica," which has the margins 

 of the leaves conspicuously ciliate and the upper surface densely pubescent ; the 

 other has smaller and narrower less -pubescent leaves. Kirk restricted the species 

 to the first (see his account of the botany of Campbell Island, pubL'shed in the re- 

 port of the Australasian i^ssociation for 1891) ; the second, which is much the 

 more common, in many places constituting the greater portion of the scrub, he 

 referred to D. Urvilleanum. This view can hardly be accepted, for they are 

 certainly much more closely connected with one another than either of them is 

 with D. Urvilleanum. That species has decidedly less-pubescent leaves, with less- 

 evidently-ciliate margins, and the top of the leaf- sheath is much more truncate or 

 even auricled. I regard it as sufiiciently distinct from both of the Campbell Island 

 plants. 



Primulaceae. 

 Samolus repens, Pers. 



Sheffieldia repens, Forst., Char. Gen., 18 (1776) ; Prodr., n. 67 (1786). 



Samolus repens, Pers., Syn. Plant., i, 171 (1805) ; T. Kirk in 



Report Austr. Assoc, 1891, 222. S. littoralis, R. Br., Prodr., 428 

 (1810). 



Auckland Islands : Rocks on Adams Island, Carnley Harbour ; Kirk ! Cockayne, 

 Aston. (Shores of New Zealand, from the Kermadec Islands and the North Cape 

 southwards ; Australia ; Tasmania ; New Caledonia.) 



Mr. Kirk's specimens, which are the only ones I have seen, agree very well with 

 the ordinary state in New Zealand. 



