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SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



[Systematic Botany. 



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Stilbocarpa folaris, A. Gray 



,, Lyallii, Armstr., var. 



robusta, T. Kirk 



Coprosma ciliata, Hook. f. 

 Olearia Lyallii, Hook. f. 



Pleurophyllum speciosuni, Hook. f. 

 ,, criniferum, Hook. f. 



,, Hookeri, Bucli. 



Celmisia vernicosa, Hook. f. 



„ campbellensis, Chapm. . . 



Cotula lanata. Hook. f. . . 



Abrotanella spathulata, Hook. f. 

 ,, rosulata, Hook. f. 



Senecio antipodus, T. Kirk. 



Gentiana cerina, Hook. f. 

 ,, concinna, Hook. f. 

 ,, antipoda, T. Kirk 

 ,, antarctica, T. Kirk 



Myosotis capitata, Hook. f. 



Veronica odora, Hook. f. 

 Veronica Benthami, Hook. f. 

 Plantago aucklandica, Hook. f. 



Urlica aucklandica, Hook. f. 

 Astelia subulata, Cheesem. 

 Bulbinella Rossii, Benth. & Hook f. 



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Luzula campestris, D.C., var. crinita, 



Buchen. 

 Hierochloe Brunonis, Hook. f. 



\Stilbpcarpa has no near relatives in New Zealand, Australia, 

 or South America, and must be looked upon as the most 

 isolated genus in the flora of the southern islands, occupying 

 a similar position to that of Pringlea in Kerguelen Island. 

 Its occurrence is a most remarkable fact in botanical 

 geography, and no satisfactory explanation of its origin has 

 yet been advanced. 

 Very close to a mountain state of C. parvi flora, abundant in 



the mountains of the South Island. 

 Very nearly related to the New Zealand 0. Colensoi, but a 

 larger-leaved and more robust plant, with the scales of the 

 involucre in many series. 



\ An endemic genus of very distinct habit, but with the floral 

 characters of Aster, Erigeron, Olearia, Celmisia, &c. It has 



'- been compared with the section Oritrophium of Erigeron, but 

 in my opinion its nearest allies are the macrocephalous 



' Olearias of New Zealand. 



j Two species remarkably distinct from the rest of the genus, 

 although very near to one another. Hooker's name of 



I lonopsis should be retained for them as a subgenus. 

 Allied on the one hand to C. plumosa, which extends to 

 Kerguelen, and on the other to the Stewart Island C. Traillii 

 and the Chatham Island C. Muelleri. 



) These seem to be quite as near to the Fuegian A. emarginala, 



I Cass., as to the New Zealand species of the genus. 

 A very distinct species, not closely allied to any other. 



I These four plants form a closely connected series, endemic in 

 the southern islands biit related to the New Zealand forms 

 through G. saxosa, some forms of which come very near to 



I G. cerina. 

 Allied to the New Zealand species of the genus through 



M. albida and M. explanata. 

 A near relative of the New Zealand V. buxifolia, with which it 



was united by Hooker. 



A very distinct species, the nearest relative of which is the 



almost equally handsome V. macrantha of the Southern Alps. 



A remarkably isolated species, the affinities of which are very 



obscure. Hooker compared it with the caulescent P. 



fernandezia, from Juan Fernandez, but this view has been 



objected to by other botanists. It has no near alUes in 



Australia or New Zealand. 



This has not been obtained of late years. It is probably a 



mere form of V . australis. Hook. f. 

 Probably a recent derivative form of A. linearis, which ranges 



from Campbell Island northwards to Ruapehu. 

 The nearest relative of this fine plant is the New Zealand 

 B. Hookeri. These two species are often quoted as evi- 

 dencing an alliance between the New Zealand and the South 

 African floras, to which latter country Bulbinella belongs. 

 But I am inclined to think that the New Zealand species 

 are sufficiently distinct to warrant the re-estabHshment of 

 Hooker's genus Chrysobactron. 



Not far removed from several New Zealand forms of the 

 species. 



A well-marked species, quite distinct from any other found in 

 the Southern Hemisphere, 



