IN NEW ZEALAND. 13 
an article of food, mixing it with the expressed juice of the 
fruit of Coriaria sarmentosa to give it consistency: this 
Fucus they call Rimurapa. 
6th.— Leaving Anaura and striking inland (in order to visit 
some natives residing on the banks of the River Uawa), 
we ascended some steep hills, on the summits of which I 
noticed several fine plants of Trophis, (T. opaca ? Sol.?) none, 
however, possessing either flowers or fruit. In a swamp 
near by I obtained an Epilobium (21), which was new to me ; 
and in a wood a little further on I gathered specimens of 
several shrubs, or young trees (35), but unfortunately 
could not obtain any either in flower or fruit. Here a very 
graceful species of Metrosideros, with ovate-acuminate leaves 
(22), hung pendent from the trees; and another species in 
flower (13), perhaps one of those described by Cunningham. 
In the shady recesses of this wood I discovered a handsome 
species of Polypodium [P. sylvaticum, n. sp., W. C.] (55), 
together with an elegant Davallia [D. Nove Zelandie, n. sp., 
W. C.] (56), the only Davallia hitherto found in these 
islands. Polypodium tenellum (57), here adhering to the 
trees, apparently varied, in the shortness of its pinne, &c., 
from the specimens I had noticed in the north parts of the 
island. An Epilobium (23), with very pubescent leaves and 
peduncles, which grew hereabouts in grassy places, I also 
secured. This plant as well as the former (No. 21) grew 
high from 12 — 30 inches. Arriving at the banks of the 
Uawa, at present a muddy rapid stream, swollen greatly 
through the late rains, I noticed a Lobelia (58) growing 
plentifully, probably ZL. angulata, Forst. After some little 
time spent in fording the stream (on the opposite bank of 
which Erpetion spathulatum, Don, was plentiful, but not in 
flower), we continued our journey until we arrived at Manga- 
tuna, a small village, where, at the very pressing invitation - 
Of the chief we consented to remain for the night. In a ~ 
wood close by I found an Orchis (16), the leaf of which I- = 
had often seen at the northward; but though I had fre- 
quently sought its flower, I had never been fortunate enough 
