Endemism.

The area is so isolated that it might be expected to show a certain amount of endemism. This is most readily illustrated by the three species Celmisia Mackaui, Veronica Lavaudiana, and Senecio saxifragoides, Celmisia Mackaui has been reported from Mount Fyffe by H. B. Kirk, but the report has not been confirmed; and Veronica Lavaudiana has been recorded by Lyall, W. T. L. Travers, and J. B. Armstrong from the river-beds of the Canterbury Plains. Now, V. Lavaudiana is a true chasmophyte, and I should be very much surprised to see it growing in the shingle-bed of one of our Canterbury rivers. It might perhaps be expected in the mountain gorges of these rivers, but I have not seen it there, and much doubt its occurrence elsewhere than on Banks Peninsula. Travers records it from the Ashley, but though I have been at many points of the Ashley river-system I have seen nothing resembling V. Lavaudiana there. A form of V. Raoulii certainly occurs at White Rock in small quantity; and