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REPORT OF THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BOTANIST. 183
IV. Mountain Eegion. Wet and wooded between the lower and
hio-her cloud level, 3500-6000 feet.
Metrosideros polymorpha (dwarf).
Guunera petaloidea.
Coprosma pubens.
Labordea fagra^oides.
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Yittadinia (several species)
Hedera platyphylla.
Astelia Meyeniaua.
Y. Upper Mountain Region. A small region on the summits of
West Maui and Kauai, which lies above 6000 feet, and which is not
wooded.
Viola KaTaiensis.
V. Maviensis.
Geranium cuneatiim var. liololeueum.
Drosera longifolia.
Acaeua exigua.
Lagenophora Maviensis.
Argyroxiphiinn (two species).
Wilkesia gymnoxiphium.
Raillardia montana.
Lobelia Gaudichaudii.
Vaccinium reticulatum.
Oreobolus fiu'catus.
and some Graminese.
{From the Memoirs of the Boston Society, vol. i. part ii\ 1869.)
EEPORT OF THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BOTANIST
AND DIRECTOR OF THE MELBOURNE BOTANIC
GARDEN.
Sir,
Botanic Garden, Melbourne,
lUh September, 1868.
In compliance with your request, I have the honour of transmit-
ting to you a succinct general Report on the work more recently per-
formed in the Botanic Garden and its scientific institutions. Simul-
taneously, I beg to point out what measures of progressive improve-
ments might most advantageously occupy the attention of the establish-
ment during the next year.
Since the great excavations at the Garden lake, and the earthworks
connected therewith, were completed, it became possible, within the
means available, to finish the various lines of walks, which now extend
in the aggregate over 22^ miles. All of these are lined with trees,
unless they pass along special garden laud.
A considerable extent of these walks requires, however, yet to be
.