The vegetation of the Kermadec Inincsls consists almost entirely of 
plants common to New Zealand, though the commonest tree, Metrosi- - 
deros polymorpha, which is all over Polynesia, and a palm, which is 
the same as that inhabiting Norfolk Island, are not natives of New 
- Zealand. Cheeseman enumerates 115 vascular plants 
CHATHAM IsLANDs.—Situated about 560 miles east of New Zealand, 
between 3^ and 45? S. lat., aud 176° to 177° W. long. Chatham Island - 
has an area of 305,280 acres, of which 57,800 are lakes and lagoons. 
Pitt Island is 12 miles long by eight broad. The ve getation is very 
similar to that of New Zealand, and a few of the same plants also occur 
in Norfolk Island. 
Hooker, Á i = Handbook of the New Zealand Flora. London, 1864. 
8vo. pp. 
Mueller, Y The Vegetation of the Chatham Islands. Melbourne, 
1864. Svo. 86, with seven plates 
Buchanan, J. On the Flowering Plants and the Ferns of the Chatham 
Islands : Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 
vii., 1875, pp. 333-341. 
The r enumera ion conga 205 species of Flowering Plants and 
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New Zealand, leavin only E peculiar to these islands. Remarkable 
among the endemic em e Olearia Traversii Senecio ene 
arboreous members of the Composite, Ans 20 to 30 feet high, w 
trunk sometimes as tote as two feet in diameter. Myoicdicis jen 
a giant kind of Forget-me-not, is also noteworthy as an ornamen ntal 
plant. There are no Myrtaceæ, and the Leguminose are only repre- . 
sented by Sophora tetraptera. 'The New Zenland palm, ii PEA 
sapida, syn. Areca sapida, and the New Zealand Flax, Phormiu 
tenax, extend to the Chatham Islands. 
ANTIPODES ÍSLAND.—A very small island in 179^ E. long. and in 
pe net vá ` lat. Nothing is known of its vegetation. 
n about the same longitude as the last, and in 
an à 30 Ss. te iid equally unknown botanically. 
AUCKLAND Istanps.—This group lies in about 50? S. Jat. and 166° 
E. long. and is about four miles long by two and a h he 
herbaceous and shrubby vegetation is almost identieal with that of 
Campbell Island, in addition to which there is an arboreous belt on the 
sen shore. Since the publication of Sir Joseph Hooker's Mi. cited 
under Campbell Island, a somewhat augmented list has appea 
Kurtz, F. Ueber eine auf- den Aucklandinseln laa a Pisa. 
Sammlung: pite ee des botanischen Vereins der Provinz 
Brandenburg, 1876, pp. 3 
trees consist Te entirely of a Myrtacea (Metrosideros 
lucida), 20 to 40 feet high, with trunks two to three feet in diameter. 
Associated with this are species of Coprosma, Panax aud Veronica and 
the tree-like Epacridea, Dracophyllum longifolium. 
CAMPBELL IsLaNp.—Situated in 52° 30’ S. lat. and 169^ E. long., 
and 30 miles in circumference, with elevations up to 1,500 feet. There 
are no trees, and the vegetation is almost entirely herbaceous and 
remarkable for the showy character of many of the plants. The flora is 
fully elaborated, and many of the plants figured, in Hooker's * Flora 
Antarctica,” and it is ones included i in the same author’s “ Handbook of 
the Flora of New Ze 
