| Summary: | Two Liversidge Research Lectures delivered before the Royal Society of N.S.W., August 12th and 13th, 1946. Reproduced by permission of the Royal Society of New South Wales from J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 1946, 80, 151-177."I propose including a review of work already done on the plant products of New Zealand, with suggestions as to future work; where possible some correlation with the chemistry of the flora of New South Wales will be given.""There is no question that the flora of New Zealand is unique and one of the most remarkable known. No less than 75% of the 1,800 species occur endemic to the country, and the peculiar geography of New Zealand has allowed for the existence of manifold types, tropical to sub-antarctic, sea-level to alpine, desert to rain-forest types. Just as New Zealand offers great scope for the botanist, it offers an almost unrivalled field to the chemist interested in the various constituents found in plants."
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