224 Hems ley . — The Flora of 
friend, Flagellaria indie a , as usual, is not tied down to the 
quiet orderly growth of its fellows in the vegetable kingdom, 
but aspires to paying rambling visits to the summits of the 
neighbouring trees. What with this, and the Palms, and the 
Banyans, and the Screw-Pines, and the clumps of parasitical 
Orchideae and Ferns, the forest scenery struck me as having 
quite a tropical aspect ; and when, after passing some cleared 
land in a neglected state, overrun with weeds (among which 
were the ubiquitous Stellaria media and Sonchus oleraceus ), 
and some patches of rude cultivation, we came in sight of 
the establishment of one of the settlers. The palm-slab 
built and palm-leaf thatched cottage and outhouses reminded 
me of a Malayan or Javanese hamlet. Several species of 
Ferns occurred here. Besides a Cyathea , with a caudex ten 
or twelve feet in length and six inches in diameter, a very 
handsome Hypolepis , a P ter is, a Litobrochia , and a widely- 
spreading Asplenium , with fronds six feet in length, were 
plentiful. A long straggling Polypodium , and a Pleopeltis , 
ran over rocks and up the trunks of trees. We saw enormous 
clumps of a Platy cerium, high up on the Banyans, and got 
fine specimens from a tree which had been blown down.’ 
In June, 1869, Mr. C. Moore, the Director of the Sydney 
Botanic Garden, spent three days in the island, and collected 
about 150 species of plants, most of them, unfortunately, 
without either flower or fruit. A set comprising 100 species 
was communicated to Kew. Mr. Moore drew up a report 
on the vegetation, to which was appended a preliminary list 
of the plants. 
In many cases only generic names are given ; and in a 
few instances the specific determinations have since been 
corrected, either by Moore himself, or by other persons who 
have studied the plants. I have considered it necessary to 
cite such erroneous names as synonyms in the following 
enumeration, because this report, being the best account 
of the vegetation extant, is likely to be referred to and the 
names taken up elsewhere. I have been able to verify 
almost every one of the corrections of the doubtful deter- 
