412 SUBANTARCTIO ISLANDS 01' NEW ZEALAND. [Systematic Botany. 



Coprosma repens, Hook. f. 



Coprosma repens, Hook, i., Fk Antarct., i, 22, t. 16a (1844). 



Auckland, Campbell, and Antipodes Islands : Abundant from sea-level to an 

 elevation of at least 1,200 ft. ; Hooker and all subsequent collectors. Macquarie 

 Island : Not uncommon ; Scott, Hamilton. (New Zealand, from the East Cape and 

 Tongariro southwards ; mountains of Victoria and Tasmania.) 



The specimens I have examined show no points of difference from the usual 

 state of the species in New Zealand. 



Nertera depressa, Banks & Sol. 



Nertera depressa, Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn. Fruct., i, 124, t. 26 (1788) ; 

 Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 23 (1844). 



Auckland Islands : Common amongst moss in the woods, and also on the open 

 hillsides ; Hooker, Kirk ! Cockayne, Aston ! Tennant ! Campbell Island : Appa- 

 rently not uncommon ; Buchanan, Cockayne. (New Zealand, mountain districts 

 from the Ruahine Bange southwards ; mountains of Victoria and Tasmania ; 

 America, from Mexico along the Andes to Peru, Chili, Fuegia, and the Falkland 

 Islands ; Tristan d'Acunha.) 



The distribution of Nertera is most remarkable. In addition to N. depressa, 

 with the exceptionally wide range quoted above, there are three other species in 

 New Zealand, one of which is said to occur in the Philippine Islands ; an endemic 

 species in Australia {N. reptans, F. Muell.) ; another in Tristan d'Acunha {N. assur- 

 gens, Thouars) ; a species in Java and Borneo, very closely allied to N. depressa ; 

 and one in China {N. sinensis, Hemsl.). It is worthy of remark that the Bornean 

 and Javan species (which is considered by Stapf to be identical with N. depressa) 

 occurs on the summit of Mount Kinibalu, in north Borneo, at an altitude of 

 over 10,000 ft., associated with such southern genera — " austral- antarctic types," as 

 Dr. Stapf calls them — as Drimys, Coprosma, Pratia, Gaultheria, Podocarpus, Dacry- 

 dium, and Phyllocladus ; and, what is equally extraordinary, in company with 

 alpine species of Vaccinium, Rhododendron, and other northern genera. For fuller 

 particulars reference should be made to Dr. Stapf's memoir on the " Flora of Mount 

 Kinibalu " (Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. ii, vol. iv, p. 69 et seq.). 



COMPOSITAE. 



Lagenophora pumila, Cheesem., n. comb. 



Calendula pumila, Forst., Prodr., n. 305 (1786). Microcalia australis, 



A. Rich., Fl. Nov. Zel., 231 (1832). Lagenophora Forsteri, D.C., Prodr., 



v., 307 (1836). 



Auckland Islands : Probably not uncommon : Port Ross and other places ; 



Kirk. Enderby Island, on sand-dunes ; Cockayne, Tennant ! Carnley Harbour, at 



sea-level ; Aston. Campbell Island : Cockayne, Chambers ! Antipodes Island : 



Kirk, Cockayne. (Common throughout New Zealand, from the Kermadec Islands 



to Stewart Island.) 



Mr. Tennant's specimens, which are the only ones I have seen in flower, are in 

 poor condition, but agree fairly well with the ordinary form found in New Zealand. 



