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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 awillaris ; Hymenanthera crassi- 
folia ; Pittosporum, upwards of 10 species ; Piagianthus, 2 species ; 
Eleocarpus, 2 species ; Aristotelia, 3 or 4 species; Pennantia corym- 
bosa; Alectryon excelsum; Dysoxylum spectabile ; Pelargonium clan- 
destinum ; Coriara, 3 or more species ; Pomaderris, 3 species ; Discaria 
Toumatou ; Clianthus puniceus; Edwardsia grandiflora ; Acena 3 
species; Fuchsia, 2 species: Lpilobium, nearly 20 species and well- 
marked varieties; Haloragis, 4 species; MMetrosideros, 10 species ; 
Leptospermum, 2 or more species ; Myrtus, 4 species ; Weinmannia, 2 
species; Ligusticwm and Angelica, 16 species ; Panax, 10 species ; 
Olearia, 20 species; Celmisia, 24 species ; Forstera, 2 species ; Draco- 
phyllum, 14 species; Myrsine, 5 species ; Calceolaria, 2 species; 
Veronica, 40 species; Ourisia, 6 species ; Vitex littoralis ; Myoporum 
letum; Laurelia Nove-Zelandia; Trophis opaca (or, Hpicarpurus 
microphyllusy; Pimelea, 10 species ; Fagus, 5 species; Dammara Aus- 
tralis ; Libocedrus, 2 species; Podocarpus, 5 species ; Daerydium, 3 
species ; Phyllocladus, 2 species ; Rhipogonum parviflorum ; Anthericum 
Hookeri ; Cordyline, 5 or more species; Astelia, 5 species ; Areca 
sapida ; Arundo conspicua; 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 Alectryon, Dysoxylum, Knightia, and Rhi- 
pogonum) others, only three or four, (as Hymenanthera, Pennant, 
Clianthus, Edwardsia, Atherosperma, Dammara, 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 be fouud in New Zea- 
land; so that New Zealand (the North Island) may not inaptly be 
