172 
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Ford, C. List of Additions to i sree Flora: Report to His 
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Forbes, F. B. and Hemsley, W. B. Index Flore Sinensis : Journal of 
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pleted. 
Bentham enumerates a thousand species belonging to 550 genera and 
125 atura orders; and the proportion of w pees to herbaceous species 
- isas l to 21. Out of the thousand species, had not, at that date, 
been found elsewhere, and although recent ien: in various parts 
of the mainland have revealed the existence of some of them in other 
localities, the majority are still only known to inhabit Hongkong. 
early 200 species have been added to the flora since the publication of 
Bentham's book. 
Porr HawrrTOoN.—- A small island off the south coast of Corea, in 34° 
N. lat. and about 127° 3s = long. Charles Wilford ee a small us 
leetion of dried plants in the island in 1859, and they are included i 
the ** Index Flo senta " eited above. "The British poseen 
has recently fedi Y withdrawn from the island. 
11. AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, NEW ZEALAND, NEW 
GUINEA, AND NORFC OLK ISLAND, WITH THE 
SMALLER NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS. 
AUusTRALIA.—Excluding ‘Tasmania, — stretehes through about 
twenty- ning degrees of latitude, from 10° S. lat., and from about 115° 
to 1 3. long., with an area of 2989, sza square nia Seis rather 
more than two-thirds the size of Euro There are few large rivers, 
and an immense tract of the interior is adit absolute desert; while the 
mountains, the highest of which are in the east and south-east, nowhere 
. rise above 6, 500 feet 
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