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vegetable appearance as well as for utility, At the same time, not a 
few of these will be found to be confined (so to speak) to the New Zea¬ 
land Botanical region. Among the more important and prominent of such 
species are the following : — Drimys axillaris; Hymenanthera eras si- 
folia ; Pittosporum, upwards of 10 species; Plagianthus , 2 species; 
Elceocarpus, 2 species; Aristotelia , 3 or 4 species ; Pennantia corym- 
bosa; Alect.ryon exeelmm; Dysoxylum spectabile ; Pelargonium clan- 
destinum ; Coriara , 3 or more species ; Pomaderris , 3 species ; Discaria 
Toumatou; Olianthus puniceus; Ed wards ia grandiflora; Acccna 3 
species; Fuchsia, 2 species; Epilobium, nearly 20 species and well- 
marked varieties; Haloragis , 4 species; Metrosideros , 10 species; 
Lcptospermuni , 2 or more species ; Myrtus , 4 species ; Weinmannia, 2 
species; Ligusticum and Angelica, 16 species; Panax , 10 species; 
Olearia , 20 species; Celmisia , 24 species ; Forster a, 2 species; Draco - 
plnjllum , 14 species; Myrsine , 5 species; Calceolaria , 2 species; 
Veronica, 40 species; Ourisia , 6 species; littoralis; Myoporum 
latum; Laurelia JVovce- Zelandioe ; Trophis opaca (or, Epicat purus 
rAicrophyllus) ; Pimelea , 10 species ; Fagus, 5 species; Dammar a A us- 
tralis; Libocedrus, 2 species; Podocarpus , 5 species ; Daerydium , 3 
species; PhyUocladus , 2 species; Rhipogonum parviflorum ; Anthericum 
Hookeri; Cordyline , 5 or more species ; rl 5 species ; A raw 
sapida; A rundo conspicaa; Cyathea , 4 species ; and Dicksonia , 3 
species. 
18. Those genera principally belong to the south temperate zone, 
where their habitat is mostly insular, and not unfrequently of the 
same meridionals with the New Zealand groupe. This is in strict 
accordance with what might have been expected — that from Nor¬ 
folk Island in the north down to the Antarctic Islands in the South, 
including the Chatham Islands, the same genera would be found ; 
and, in many instances, there are not only the same genera to be 
met with, but the same species. Moreover, it should not be forgotten 
that the majority of those genera are very small, some having only 
two species each, (as Alcctryon , Dysoxylum , KnigkUa , and Rhi¬ 
pogonum') others, only three or four, (as Jlymenanthera, Pennantia, 
Clianthus , Edwardsia , A therosperma , Dammam , and Phyllocladus ,) and 
these are only found as single species in their various habitats ; and of 
others, containing from 5 to 10 species each, (as, Plagianthus, Aristotelia, 
Forstera, Ourisia, Cordyline , Astelia , Podocarpus , and Daerydium,) 
the greater number of species of each genus are to befouud in New Zea¬ 
land ; so that New Zealand (the North Island) may not inaptly be 
