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R. album (R. Br. Prodr. 293) extends from East Gipps-Land to 

 the tropic of Capricorn through the forest of East Australia. Two 

 other species or perhaps varieties are likewise found in subtropical 

 East Australia, which need further examination on the spot for the 

 purpose of ascertaining their relative position to R. album. (Conf. 

 F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. i. 44.) 



PALMiE. 



Aeeca sapida. 



Solander in G. Porst. Plant. Esculent. Insul. Ocean. Austr. Comment. Botan. 

 66 ; G. Forst. Prodrom. 592 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov, Zeal. i. 262, t. 59 ; A. 

 Banksii, Martins, Gen. et Spec. Palmar. 172. 



Common on Pitt-Island, but rare on Chatham-Island. 



The fruit responds to the description of the New Zealand palm. 

 The rachis of the leaves is tomentose. 



Dr. Hooker justly observes, that A. sapida presents the most 

 southern member of the noble order of Palms. In East Gipps-Land 

 the species second in its extent to the south occurs, Livistona Aus- 

 tralis ; and more, there at a latitude of 37° 30' S. this majestic palm 

 raises itself still to a height of fully 80'. 



JUNCE^. 



LUZULA CAMPESTRIS. 



Candolle et Lamark, More Frangaise, iii. 161 ; E. Brown, Prodrom. 591 ; 

 Biclieno in Transact. Linn. Soc. xii. 334, t. 9, fig 4 ; E. Meyer, Synops. 

 Luzular. 17 ; Harpe, Essai d'une Monogr. des Joncees, 88 ; Spach, Suites 

 a Bufibn, t. 113 ; Kunth, Bnumer. iii. 307 ; E. Meyer in Lelim. Plant. 

 Preiss. ii. 48 ; J. Hook. Flor. Not. Zeel. i. 264 ; Fl. Tasm. ii. 68 ; Steud. 

 Glumac. ii. 293 ; Benth. Handbook of the Brit. Flora, 541 ; L. picta, Ach. 

 Bich. Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, i. 147 ; L. Banksiana, E. Meyer in Linnasa, xx. 

 412 ; L. crinita, J. Hook. Flor. Antarct. 85, t. 48 ; L. Oldfieldii, J. Hook. 

 Flor. Tasm. ii. 68 ; Juncus campestris, Lian. Spec. Plant. 468 ; Luciola 

 campestris. Smith, English Flora, ii. 181. 



Chatham-Island on open places. 



The species is widely diffused through temperate Australia, but 

 has not yet been found in our tropical or even subtropical regions. 

 All the plants of the genus contained in our extensive Australian 

 collection are referable to L. campestris, and to this species a host 

 of plants appearing under various specific names in the works on 

 the plants of different countries and resting on imreliable characters 

 are to be restored. 



