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LORD Howe's island. 303
Acronychia, Olea paniculata, a Pisonia, allied to P. Brunonlana, a
Tetratithera, a Maba, a Myoporum, Baloghia luckla, and an unknown
Myrunaceous tree, bearing large quantities of a small oval, reddish
fruit, and singular as being the only tree on which was found the very
curious parasite Fkcmti distichum (Bauer, lUustr.). This grew only
on the extremities of the top branches, and had the effect of apparently
destroying altogether some of the trees on which it had fastened itself.
These plants, with the Ficiis referred to in the early part of this paper,
constitute at least three-fourths of the trees and shrubs in the island.
The Myrtaceae, which might naturally be expected to have been
strongly represented upon an island so contiguous to the Australian
coast, were confined to a small species of Melaleuca, called by the
settlers " Kilmoque," and used by them as a substitute for tea ; and
an arborescent species of Leptospermum, very rare indeed, as only one
tree of the kind was found, which was dead, and had seed vessels only
upon it. ProteacefB were altogether wanting, and not a type of the
Australian Ze^?