Lord Howe Island. 
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island were Hibiscus Pater sonii , Myoporum acuminatum , 
called “ juniper,” and Ochrosia elliptica ; all most abundant 
near the coast, and forming for the most part the outer or 
most exposed belt, the latter being, it is supposed, the 
“ Manchineal ” mentioned by Lieutenant Ball, the discoverer 
of the island. These and a species of Acronychia , Hemicyclia 
australasica , the latter remarkable for its bright-coloured 
foliage and red-coloured fruit, Ole a paniculata , Achras costata , 
Pisonia Brunoniana i Baloghia lucida , and a species of Te trail- 
thera — constitute at least three-fourths of the tree-vegetation. 
Climbing-plants were represented by Marsdenia rostrata , 
Stephania her nandi folia, Smilax latifolia , Flagellar ia in - 
dfcV:#, Ipomoea palmata , Ipomoea Pes-caprae , Tecoma australis , 
and Canavalia obtusifolia . Among the more rare and inter- 
esting plants, special mention may be made of a magnificent 
species of Dracophyllum discovered by R. D. Fitzgerald, in 
a valley between the two highest mountains, called Erskine 
Valley. This magnificient species (perhaps the finest of the 
genus) being new, will henceforth bear the name of its dis- 
coverer, Dracophyllum Fitzgeraldii , who describes it as “ a tree 
between forty and fifty feet high, with a trunk at least two 
feet in diameter. It produced the leaves in tufts at the ends 
of the branches, and panicles of flowers of a reddish-white 
colour, from nine inches to a foot long, springing from the 
centre of the tufts. Altogether it had a strange appearance, 
growing in a rambling way, the small branches forking like 
a Pandanus , the whole tree having the semblance of pro- 
ducing young Pine-apple plants/’ A beautiful species of 
Randia ( R . macrophylla , Moore), with large bright-shining 
foliage and stipules, was met with in several parts of the 
island. A singular plant of the Mistletoe kind, Viscum 
opuntioides , found also in Norfolk Island, was observed 
growing in considerable quantities, but only upon two kinds 
of trees, Hemicyclia and Elaeodendron. A most offensive- 
smelling plant ( Coprosma putidd) was met with both on 
the high and low grounds. A large Iridaceous plant 1 , termed 
1 At the present time (May, 1896) there is a fine plant of this at the south end 
