Colexso. — On Waikaremoana District. 359 



As the stems become matted they give off rootlets in 

 abundance, while the seeds sometimes germinate in the cap- 

 sules, and at others are found buried several inches below the 

 surface. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. John Buchanan, formerly of the 

 Geological Survey Department, for having so generously placed 

 the contents of his herbarium at my disposal. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXVIId. and XXVIIe. 



Plate XXVIId. 

 Colobanthus buchanani, n.s. Natural size. 

 Fig. 1. Stem, natural size. 

 Fig. 2. Apex of branch, enlarged. 

 Fig. 3. Flower, enlarged. 



Plate XXVIIe. 



C. brevisepahis, n.s. Natural size. 



Fig. 4. Tuft, natural size. 

 Fig. 5. Branch, natural size. 

 Fig. 6. Apex of branch, enlarged. 

 Fig. 7. Leaves and flower, enlarged. 



Abt. XLV. — Notes and Reminiscences of Early Crossings of 

 the Romantically - situated Lake Waikaremoana, County 

 of Hawkes Bay, of its Neighbouring Country, and of its 

 Peculiar Botany ; performed in the Years 1841 and 1843. 



By W. Colenso, F.E.S., RL.S. (Lond.), &c. 



[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 13th August, 



1894.] 



Quae fuit durum pati rneininisse dulce est. — Sen. 



We have lately heard of a " perilous passage " made across 

 this lake in April last by a party of notables, and of other few 

 modern crossings a short time before by travellers and visitors, 

 as being the first attempts of Europeans to do so ! Having, 

 however, crossed it myself on two occasions more than fifty 

 years ago — and that, too, under far more adventurous circum- 

 stances, when the place and all the interior country was 

 wholly unknown — I have thought that a descriptive paper 

 recording my journeys would not prove unacceptable to our 

 Society ; premising also that nearly the whole of it was written 

 at the time. 



