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Ranunculaceae 
Wide 
3 
Table 
— 1 
XI. 
1 
1 
Endemic 
1 
1 
3 
2 
3 
4 
6 
7 
5 
7 
Leguminosae 
Wide 
— 
1 
>> 
Endemic 
— 
— 
— 
— 
3 
3 
4 
4 
5 
5 
Umbelliferae 
Wide 
4 
2 
2 
— 
2 
1 
— 
— 
— 
— 
yy 
Endemic 
2 
1 
3 
4 
2 
5 
1 
4 
5 
6 
Liliaceae 
Wide 
5 
— 
1 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
y y 
Endemic 
1 
: — 
2 
4 
3 
1 
1 
— 
1 
— 
Juncaceae 
Wide 
4 
1 
4 
4 
— 
3 
— 
— 
1 
— 
Endemic 
— 
1 
— 
— 
1 
— 
2 
1 
— 
2 
Cyperaceae 
Wide 
10 
10 
9 
9 
5 
3 
5 
4 
2 
3 
yy 
Endemic 
10 
5 
2 
3 
4 
8 
8 
1 
8 
8 
All show the wides much commoner than the endemics, and the only 
one that is at all exceptional is the Cyperaceae, which shows a considerable 
accumulation of endemics at the top of the scale, as would be expected in 
the case of a family very old in New Zealand, which there is reason to 
believe. 
The same things show in the genera. 
Ligusticum 
Endemic 
Olearia 
Endemic 
Helichrysum 
Wide 
yy 
Endemic 
Cotula 
Wide 
yy 
Endemic 
Carex 
Wide 
yy 
Endemic 
Danthonia 
Wide 
» 
Endemic 
Table XII. 
— 1 
2 3 
1 1 
- 1 — 
2 — — 
111 
152 
7 3 1 
3-326 
14268 
3-315 
21-5 
1 2 1 — 1 
6 5 - 47 
1 1 1 4 
The same thing shows in Carex as in Cyperaceae as a whole. 
A cursory glance at these tables shows that they correspond to the 
Ceylon tables for families and genera given in preceding papers. All 
families and genera have species in all or nearly all the headings, 1 com- 
mencing from the bottom upwards, but stopping at different heights upon 
the scale. But all agree with the general total in their arrangement. 
Opportunity may be taken here to call attention to one of the many 
interesting things which show in these statistical figures, and which will form 
the subjects of later papers. As the Leguminosae, for example, only reach 
up the scale as far as 640 miles (the actual range of the most extensive), it 
is evident that the family was on the whole late in reaching New Zealand. 
The only widely distributed species that it contains has a range merely of 
1,000 miles (i. e. the main islands, not passing into Stewart Island). The 
genus Veronica shows the same thing, though for some reason it proved very 
mutable when it reached New Zealand. Or yet again, in Ranunculaceae, 
all the endemics in the first two classes, i. e. down to 880 miles, two out of 
1 Allowing for the small size of families and genera in New Zealand. 
