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number of them. The Botany of the ** Challenger" contains a complete 
list, with full particulars of the distribution of all the species. There 
are 115 species belonging to eighty-four genera, none of which is 
endemic. guminose are wholly wanting, as they also are in all the 
islands in high southern latitudes, eastward to Macquarie and the 
Chatham group. Bolax glebaria, the Balsam-bog, and Poa flabellata, 
syn. Dactylis epics the Tussock bras are two of the most — 
and remarkable plants in the vegeta 'The former grows in large 
rove 
plant," a dwarf myrtle, bears a usd edible fruit in great abundance, 
and its leaves are used asa substitute for tea. Associated with the 
foregoing are a dwarf Rubus with an edible fruit, common Thrift, and a 
Primrose, the only one in the southern hemisphere, and so closely allied 
to the British Primula farinosa as to have been regarded a variety 
of it 
— GxoncrA.—An uninhabited island, a dependency of the Falk- 
lands, explored and taken possession of by Captain Cook in 1775. I 
Engler, A. Die Phanerogamenflora von Süd- a Jahr- 
biicher, vi, 1886, pp. 281-285. 
pogr iA hes B. Vegetation of South Georgia : Nature, xxxiv. (18 
p. mary ‘of the foregoing, to which is added the eni 
distribution p all the specie 
irteen species were collected; including the Tussock grass and the 
northern Phleum alpinum. None of the plants are peculiar to the 
island, and most of them have a wide range in the southern hemi- 
sphere ; one, ne secant extending from Fuegia to the 
Australian Alp 
7. ADEN, eaten Lag PERIM, AND OTHER co emos: OF 
RED SEA AND ARABIAN COAST 
ApEN.—On the south coast of Arabia, about 100 miles eastward of the 
Strait of Babelmandeb, in 12° 47’ N. lat. Area about 70 square miles, 
and rocky and barren in the extreme. It is excessively hot, and the 
annual rainfall varies from six or seven inches to nothing, hence the 
einai is us sparse, 
Anderson, T. Florula Adenensis: Jouri of the Linnean Society, 
v. (1860), Bappdidiviné pp. xxiv and 47. With six plates. 
. . Marchesetti, C. Ein n Ausflug nach Aden: CEsterreichische Botan- 
se eus 1881, pp. 19-23. A sketch of the aspects of the - 
kn d: Herborisations dans les Montagnes Voleaniques d' Aden 
Bulletin de la Société été Botanique de France, xxxii. (1885), pp. 343- 
356; DEEE pp. 61-69. 
