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be a closely allied species to No. 115, already noticed. This 
graceful shrub, or small tree, grows to the height of 10 or 12 
feet. About four P.M., we emerged from the dense woods to a 
large plain, covered with Pferis esculenta, the first plain of 
fern we had seen for several days. Passing over this plain, I 
obtained from a boggy watercourse, a small plant, with white 
flowers (189), a species of Marchantia (198), a Hydrocotyle 
(199), and a species of Hypericum (200). The latter ap- 
peared to me to be very distinct from H. pusillum, D.C., 
in being a much larger plant, of erect growth, with oblong 
calyces, and oblong-ovate, or obovate, undulated and mar- 
gined leaves; whereas H. pusillum is described “ caule debile 
prostrato, foliis ovatis obtusis, calyce lanceolata," &c. We 
halted this evening at Te Waiiti, a fenced village, situated on 
the banks of the river at the end of the plain. The next 
morning we resumed our journey. On ascending the first 
hill, I found a small plant growing in a rivulet (195), perhaps 
a variety of 189, already noticed. A little further on 
splendid specimens of Lomaria linearis grew luxuriantly 
about the margins of woods near the river. Here, also, 
were several fine plants of Dicksonia fibrosa, their trunks 
grotesquely hewn by the natives into all manner of uncom- 
mon shapes in cutting away their fibrous epidermis, for the 
purposes already mentioned. Discovered another Lomaria 
this morning (290), in ascending the first wooded hill after 
crossing the river. This species, (L. deltoides, n. sp. W. C.) 
approaches very closely to L. deflexa (n. sp. No. 268), already 
noticed ; differing, however, in its habit, manner of growth, 
size, and in being hairy underneath, and ciliated on the mar- 
gins of its pinne. ln a damp forest I obtained fine speci- 
mens of my new Davallia (No. 56), already mentioned, some 
fronds measuring 18 inches in length. I only observed this 
fern growing in two places in the whole of my journey, and 
not above half-a-dozen plants in either spot. Ascending the 
barren and lofty hills before us, I found, near their summits, 
a species of Composita (185), which I had not previously 
seen. These hills were formed chiefly of broken pumice 
