54 



Bot. Eegistr.- 1630, Hook. Botan. Magaz. 3294) of Chiloe seems the 

 only other spociea known but those mentioned on this occasion. 



LILIACB^. 



Phormium tenax. 



J, E. and G. Porster, Charact. Gen. 24; Linn. fil. Snppl. Plant. 204; Cook's 

 Voyage, ii. 96, with lUustr. ; Mill. Pascic. tab. 1 ; Thunberg, Nov. Plant. 

 Gener. p. 94 ; Eedout^, Liliao. t. 448 & 449 ; Desvaux, Joum. iv. tab. 

 17 & 18 ; Thouin in Annal. du Mus. Paris, ii. 224 & 474 ; St. Fond in 

 Annal. du Mus. xix. 40, t. 20 ; Thibaud in Annal. Soo. Linn. Paris, iv. 57, 

 t. 7; Diction. Soieno. Natur. t. 51; Herbier Amat. t. 120; Eerner, Gen. 

 t. 116 & 117 ; Act. Eioh. Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. 153 ; Bot. Magaz. 3199 ; 

 Endl. Prodrom. Flor. Inaul. Norfolk. 27; Kuntb, Enumer. Plant, iv. 275; 

 J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 156 ; P. Cookianum, Le Jolis, Mem. sur. le 

 Lin de la Nouv. Zel. ; Ohalmydea tenaeissima. Banks & Soland. in Gsertn. 

 de Fruct. & Semin. i. 71, 1. 18 ; Lachenalia ramosa, Lamark, Encyolop. iii. 

 373. 



Recorded by Dr. Dieffenbach and all subsequent visitors as in- 

 digenous to the Chatham-group. 



ASTELIA BanKSII. 



AH. Cunn. in Hook. Compan. to the Bot. Magaz. ii. 374 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. 

 Zeel. i. 260 ; A. Bichardi, Endlich. accord, to Kunth Enumer. iii. 365 ; 

 Hamelinia veratroides, A. Bich. Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. 158, t. 24. 



On open places of Chatham-Island, not common. 



Mr. Travers's collection contains the female plant in fruit. 



Steudel unites with our plant (Synops. Plantar. Glumac. ii. 312) 

 an allied but evidently distinct plant of the Sandwich-Islands, A. 

 veratroides, Gaiadich. in Freycen. Voy. de TUranie 420, t. 31. 



SMILACE^. 



Rhipogostum scandbns. 



Forst. Charact. Gener. 50, t. 25 ; Edit. German. Kerner. 51, t. 25 ; Lamark, 

 Enclyclop. t. 254 ; A. Eich. Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. 151 ; J. Hook. Flor. 

 Nov. Zeel. i. 253 ; E. parviflorum, E. Br. Prodr. 293 ; Kunth, Enum. PI. 

 V. 271 ; Smilax Rhipogonum, Forst. Prodrom. 372. 



Common in woods of Chatham-Island. "Hartwhan" of the 

 natives ; " Supplejack" of the New Zealand colonist. 



Of this genus three other species are known, all East- Australian, 

 the B. dubium (Endl. Flor. Insul. Norfolk. 30) being a Clematis. 



