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very fine, of tolerable size, seventy feet high, and with some 

 Kai-Katea [Dacrydiiim? excelsum), and Tanekaha {Phylloda- 

 das trichornanoides)^ were the largest timbers these] woods 

 furnish. I procured some young trees of the latter for 

 planting in my boxes : the Hichea looking tree {Dracophyliiim 

 latifolium,) observed last month on the Kiddee-Kiddee river, 

 I remarked in similar situations to-day without fructification, 

 and of sub-arborescent growth. In descending the river, I 

 landed on the banks in several places to fill my remaining 

 boxes with Knightia excelsa^ iMurus Tawa^ and some other 

 interesting plants. By reason of the flood tide having set, 

 it was not until after sunset that I was enabled to reach 

 Paihai." 



Some of the gentlemen attached to the station, being about 

 to visit Wangaroa, Mr Cunningham availed himself of the 

 opportunity, and accompanied them. While on this expedi- 

 tion he had the good fortune to detect a second species of 

 that fine order Proteacece, {Persoo?iia Tora, A. Cunn.,) only 

 one being previously known, viz., Knightea excelsa, he also 

 found the Areca sapida of Solander, in flower, which, from 

 its hexandrous free stamens, he thinks improperly placed in 

 Areca. His stay at Wangaroa was shortened on account of 

 a quarrel among the natives, the result of which at one period 

 appeared likely to assume a very serious aspect, so far as his 

 missionary friends, with whom he was residing, were con- 

 cerned ; however, they contrived eventually to divert the 

 wrath of the natives from themselves, and returned in safety 

 to Paihai on the 23d of November. A trip to the Bay of 

 Plenty, about two hundred miles to the southward of Paihai 

 on the same east coast, was afforded Mr Cunningham, by the 

 missionary vessel visiting that port for provisions: the result 

 confirmed an observation of Sir Joseph Banks, of the great 

 sameness of vegetation of widely separated tracts in New 

 Zealand ; for Mr Cunningham detected no plants that he 

 had not previously found even as far north as Wangaroa. 

 A few short excursions in the vicinity of the Bay of Islands 

 terminated Mr Cunningham's sojourn in New Zealand. The 



