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to obtain it. The flowering season of this, too, unfortunately 
' was long past; I brought away, however, the capsule for 
examination. The next morning we left this little village 
and, recrossing the Uawa, proceeded over the alluvial 
plains which form its banks towards the sea. In this morn- 
ing journey I obtained two species of Epilobium; one (12) 
with large ovate leaves, adpressed on the stalk; the other 
(12 a) with long lanceolate leaves. I also got specimens of 
a pretty little decumbent plant (42) in flower and fruit. At 
2 p.m., we reached Hinuroro, a large village on the sea- 
shore at the mouth of the Uawa River. This bay, or rather 
open roadstead, is the Tolaga Bay (in 38°S.) of our illustrious 
circumnavigator, Cook. Here his ships were at anchor in 
October, 1769 ; here, too, it was that “the first Knightia ex- 
celsa, Br., was seen, and the first Areca sapida, Sol., was cut 
down for the sake of its top." And here, near the S.E. 
headland of the bay, Cook dug a well for the supplying of 
his ships with water; which well is shewn at this day by the 
natives to the curious “ white man ” travelling this way. 
9th.—We recommenced our journey this morning, cross- 
ing the Uawa, at its mouth, in a canoe. Our route, at first, 
lay inland, thence we turned towards the sea. Descending 
a high hill near the coast, I was both gratified and rewarded 
in finding an elegant little Arthropodium in flower, quite a 
new species (18); I only observed the plant in this locality, 
although I sought it assiduously during the remainder of 
my journey as I wished more specimens. Close by it grew — 
a very handsome shrubby Pimelea (24), which, to me, ap- _ 
peared to be a new species, and distinct from the one num- 
bered 32. Proceeding on, over the long sandy beaches, we 
were soon overtaken with rain, from which * we endeavoured 
to shelter ourselves under some fine trees of Corynocarpus 
levigata, Forst., which often grow in clumps near the sea- - 
shore; but the rain continuing, we were obliged to proceed. - 
From some natives whom we met, I obtained a basket of — 
Haliotis, the black fish of which my baggage-bearers ate 2 
raw, with great zest. On the shells I found a peculiar little — 
