BOTANICAL DISCOVERY. XXXII 
Mr. A. Hamilton, the present Director of the Colonial Museum, made 
an interesting collection of plants at Okarito in 1878, which included several 
novelties. Among them was the remarkable species described by Hooker 
as Huphrasia disperma, which has since been taken by Wettstein as the 
type of his genus Anagosperma. At a later date he botanized in the 
Hawke’s Bay District, along the flanks of the Ruahine Range, and elsewhere 
on the eastern side of the North Island. In 1894 he visited Macquarie 
Island, and, although much hindered. by exceptionally severe weather and 
other untoward circumstances, succeeded in adding considerably to our 
knowledge of the botany of the island. A list of the plants collected will 
be found in his “ Notes on a Visit to Macquarie Island” (Trans. N.Z. 
Inst., xxvul, 559). | 
Mr. H. Hill, of Napier, has also collected largely in the Hawke’s Bay 
and Hast Cape districts. Many of his specimens were communicated to 
Mr. Colenso, and were described by that gentleman as new species. He was 
the first to find the widely distributed Peperomia reflexa in the colony, and 
to rediscover the plant to which the name of Veronica Colensoi was originally 
applied by Hooker. 
Mr. J. D. Hnys, for several years resident at Castle Hill, in the middle 
portion of the Waimakariri basin, and a keen observer in many branches 
of natural science, made large collections in the Canterbury Alps in the 
years between 1874 and 1890. Among his discoveries may be mentioned 
Ranunculus Hnysi and. R. paucifolius, Carmichaelia Enysti, Ligustiewm 
Enysu, Botrychium lunaria, &e. He also paid a visit to the Chatham 
Islands, bringing back a few interesting plants, among which were the 
first specimens of the endemic Sonchus grandifolius. His collections were 
for the most part communicated either to Mr. Kirk or myself. 
Mr. James Adams, of Thames, has botanized in several parts of both 
the North and South Islands, making several interesting discoveries, the 
chief of which are Celmisia Adamsii, Loranthus Adamsii, and Myposotis 
amabilis. His papers on the “ Botany of Te Aroha Mountain” (Trans. N.Z. 
Inst., xvii, 275), on the “ Botany of Te Moehau ” (/bid., xxi, 32), and the 
“Botany of Hikurang: Mountain ” ([bad., xxx, 414) contain much interesting 
matter bearing on the distribution of the New Zealand flora. 
Mr. F. R. Chapman (now Mr. Justice Chapman) has collected in Otago, 
- and in 1890 visited the Auckland Islands and other islands to the south 
of New Zealand. His paper on “The Outlying Islands South of New 
Zealand” contains much valuable information of a botanical nature. He 
has also published two papers containing descriptions of certain new species 
of Celmisia (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxii, 444; and xxiii, 407). 
Professor J. H. Scott, of Dunedin, visited Macquarie Island in 1880. 
On his return he published an excellent account of the fauna and flora 
(Trans. N.Z. Inst., xv, 484), including a catalogue of the plants observed 
by him. 
Among others who have interested themselves with New Zealand 
botany between the publication of the Handbook and the year 1895 may 
be mentioned the late Mr. Justice Gillies, Captain Hutton, T. H. Potts, 
C. Traill, S. Percy Smith, J. Rutland, P. Goyen, Captain G. Mair, 
A. T. Urquhart, H. Tryon, Archdeacon Walsh, T. W. Kirk, J. W. Hall, 
J. Tennant, and J. Baber. 
In 1896 Dr. L. Diels, of Berlin, published in Engler’s ‘ Botanical 
Year-book”’ a paper entitled ‘‘ Vegetations-biologie von Neu-Seeland,” 
which deserves special mention on account of being the first attempt to 
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