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species, and different kinds of Anchusa, or Myosotis 
(81, 91) I also obtained in this locality. Ascending a 
hill I discovered a plant with copious verticillate in- 
florescence, and large subrotund leaves, with long succulent 
petioles (83). Most unfortunately I could not find a 
specimen possessing either seeds or flowers, although I 
sought most assiduously for such. It must have flowered 
very early in the season, as both carpels and peduncles in 
every specimen were quite withered; some flower-stalks 
were from 12—20 inches in height.* On a barren hill in 
‘this neighbourhood grew a Lycopodium (85) which I had 
not before noticed; together with a few mosses, (39, 94, 
96). From these heights the prospect is most exten- 
sive. Beneath me lay Poverty Bay with its romantic 
headlands ; while far away to the left, Hikurangi (the isolated 
mountain near Waiapu) hid his venerable head in clouds. 
The atmosphere, however, was so filled with smoke arising 
from the fern which was burning furiously to windward, 
that it was only with difficulty that I discovered a single 
distant object. We travelled until near sunset, halting for 
the night by the side of a small stream in a desolate wild, 
called by the natives, Tapatapauma. Here several species 
of the genus Epilobium flourished luxuriantly, of which 1 
secured specimens, (vide nos. 89, 93, 103, 104, 106, 107, 
and 109); nos. 105 and 110 may, in all probability, be merely 
varieties of 103.  'This last, 103, grew most plenti- 
fully in tufts every where on these hills among the fern. 
The sides of the rivulet were ornamented with fine 
plants of a Fagus (88), which I think will prove distinct 
from the large-leaved species discovered by me in the more 
northern parts of the Island; the leaves of this species 
* Since penning the above [ am happy in being enabled to add, that 
I have obtained fine living specimens of this plant, which have flowered 
since they came into my possession. Its corolla is monopetalous, 
labiate, and quinquefid with didynamous stamens, and superior unilocular 
ovary. It may probably rank in the Order Cyrtandracce. W.C. (This 
proves to be the rare Ourisia macrophyll1, Hook Ic. Pl, tabs. pxtv, v1.—Ed, 
e ME. 
