Systematic Botany.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 447 



Campbell Island : Slopes of Mount Dumas ; Aston ! (Mountain districts in 

 New Zealand from the East Cape and Taupo southwards ; temperate Australia, and 

 Tasmania.) 



This is the first record from the southern islands. The specimens represent a 

 rather small state of the species, with small heads ; but similar forms are common 

 in New Zealand. 



Taraxacum officinale, Wigg. — ^Judge's Chair, Campbell Island ; Aston ! 



Samolus reopens, Pers. — Enderby Island ; Aston ! Not previously recorded from 

 this part of the group. 



Veronica odora. Hook. f. — In Mr. Aston's collections I find numerous specimens, 

 in flower and in young fruit, of a Veronica which is clearly identical with Hooker's 

 V. odora, as described and figured in the " Flora Antarctica " (p. 63, t. 41). A study 

 of these specimens has fully convinced me that I was mistaken in referring V. odora 

 to V. elliftica in the Manual, and that it must be regarded as a distinct species, closely 

 allied to V. huxifolia, to which it was afterwards referred by Hooker, but differing 

 in the rather larger and much more laxly placed leaves (which hp,ve very peculiar 

 minutely crenulate margins), in the absence of the concave bracts which are so con- 

 spicuous in V. huxifolia, and in the shorter corolla-tube. There is, however, one 

 discrepancy. Hooker refers to the " delicious fragrance " of the flowers, but Mr. 

 Aston informs me that he could detect no scent whatever. This is puzzling, inas- 

 much as the specimens so exactly correspond in all other respects that no doubt can 

 be entertained of the identification. 



Rumex neglectus, T. Kirk. — Head of Laurie Harbour ; Aston ! 



Thelymitra longifolia, Forst. — Flowering specimens undoubtedly referable to 

 this species were collected in the Auckland Islands by Mr. Aston. 



Thelymitra uniflora, Hook. f. — Flowering specimens of this were also obtained 

 by Mr. Aston. 



Corysanthes oblonga, Hook. f. 



Nematoceras oUonga, Hook, f., Fl. Nov. Zel, i, 250, t. 57b (1853). Cory- 

 santhes oblonga. Hook, f., Handb. N.Z. Fl., 266 (1864). 



Auckland Islands : North Arm of Carnley Harbour ; Aston ! (New Zealand, 

 from the North Cape southwards.) 



Now recorded for the first time from the southern islands. 



Uncinia australis, Pers. 



Uncinia australis, Pers., Syn., ii, 534 (1805) ; Hook, f., Fl. Nov. Zel., i, 

 287 (1853). 



Auckland Islands : Exact locality not specified ; Aston ! (Throughout New 

 Zealand ; also said to occur in the Sandwich Islands.) 



It is curious that this species has not been previously observed. Can it have 

 been recently introduced ? 



