ADDITIONS. 



AEALIACEiE. 



HeDEBA CRASSIFOLIA. 



A. Gray, Botany of Wilkes's Unit. Stat. Bxplor. Exped. 718 ; Aralia crassi- 

 folia, Banks & Soland, accord, to All. Cunn. in Annals of Nat. Hist. ii. 

 214; Walp. Eepertor. Bot. Syst. ii. 430; Hook. Icon. Plant, t. 583 ; J. 

 Hook. Plor. Nov. Zeel. i. 96. 



Chatham-Island. Dr. Dieffenbach. 



A fragment of this plant appears also to be extant in Mr. Travers's 

 collection. 



This and the two following plants have been introduced into this 

 work on the authority of Dr. J. Hooker. 



RUBIACEiE. 



CoPROSMA PEOPINQUA. 



All. Cunn. in Annals of Nat. Hist. ii. 206 ; Walpers, Repert, Botan. Syst. ii. 

 463 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 109. 



Chatham-Island. Dr. Dieffenbach. 



Probably one of the species found by Mr. Travers is referable to 

 this plant. 



VERBENACE^. 



AVICBNNIA OFFICINALIS. 



Linne, Spec. Plant, edit. prim. 110 (1753) ; J. C. Schauer in Cand. Prodr. xi. 

 700 ; A. resinifera, Forst. Prodr. 246 ; Plant. Esculent. 72 ; A. Eich. Voy. 

 de 1' Astrolabe, 195 ; Deoaisne, Herb. Timor. 74 ; A. tomentosa, E. Br. 

 Prodr. 518 ; WaUioh. Plant. Aeiat. Earior. iii. 44, t. 271 ; Miquel in Lehm. 

 Plant. Preiss. i. 353 ; Wight, Icon. Plant. Ind. Orient. 1481; J. Hook. 

 Elor. Nov. Zeel. i. 204. 



Chatham-Island. Dr. Dieffenbach. 



The plants constituting the genus Avicennia are deserving of a 

 new critical exposition, but for which the material in our collection 

 proves insufficient. Apparently only one species exists in. Asia and 

 Australia. In Continental Australia it fringes widely many tracts 



