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Hems ley.- — The Flora of 
succeeded in landing on Ball’s Pyramid, which is about 
i, 800 feet high, with a base of only three-quarters of a mile 
in its greatest diameter. Mr. Duff mentions that the plants 
collected were presented to him, but he gives no names. 
I have written to Mr. Moore for information on this point, 
and since writing I have discovered that it has long been 
his intention to write a Flora of Lord Howe and Norfolk 
Islands. Of course the present purely geographical paper 
cannot stand in the way of a descriptive work 1 . 
ENUMERATION OF ALL THE INDIGENOUS 
VASCULAR PLANTS KNOWN TO 
INHABIT THE ISLAND. 
I. Ranunculaceae. 
1 . Clematis glycinoid.es, DC. Syst. i, p. 145 ; Benth. FI. 
Austral, i, p. 7 ; F. Muell. Fragm. ix, p. 76 ; x, p. 2. 
Common in New South Wales and Queensland, and Sir F. von 
Mueller reports it from New Caledonia. 
II. Magnoliaceae. 
2 . Drimys Howeana. F. Muell. Fragm. vii, p. 17. 
Drimys insular is ^ Baill. ex F. Muell. Fragm. ix, p. 76. 
Very closely allied to D. se?nicarpifolia, F. Muell., a native of 
Queensland. 
This genus is common to the South American and Australasian 
regions, and extends to Western Polynesia and the Malay Archipelago, 
northward to the Philippine Islands. 
Moore, in his sketch of the vegetation of the island, cites a second 
unnamed species, but all the specimens seen belong to one species. 
1 Since writing the above I have heard from Mr. Moore to the effect that he had 
relinquished the idea ; but he hopes yet to be able to send a collector to 
thoroughly botanize the island, as he believes there is more to be done, and should 
he succeed he would communicate the materials to me. He failed, however, to 
answer my question respecting the plants of Ball’s Pyramid. 
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