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it in a canoe, proceeded on to Kaupapa, then the residence 

 of the Eev. W. Williams, subsequently the first Bishop of 

 Waiapu, and arrived there by 7 p.m. quite tired. 



At Poverty Bay I remained several days, and during my 

 stay obtained specimens of several new and little-known 

 plants. On the morning of the 20th December I once more 

 recommenced my journey, directing my course for the first 

 time directly into the interior. Proceeding up Turanga Val- 

 ley by the river's banks, over alluvial and grassy plains, we 

 reached the forests at the base of the first high range of hills 

 by 2 p.m. On my way thither I discovered a few plants that 

 were new to me. Among them were a fine aquatic Eanun- 

 culus, :;; with very long and fistulous petioles, nearly as stout 

 as the barrel of a goose-quill ; and, higher up, a handsome 

 plant with copious verticillate inflorescence, large subrotund 

 leaves, and long, stout petioles, but all its flowers had long 

 before withered. Some of its erect flower-stalks were 2ft. 

 high. I subsequently reared it at the Bay of Islands, where 

 it flowered well. It is the fine Ourisia macrophylla of 

 Hooker, also since found by me on the edges of watercourses 

 at Titiokura, and in several other similar spots in Hawke's 

 Bay. From the top of these hills the prospect is most exten- 

 sive. Beneath me, as a panorama, was Poverty Bay, with its 

 romantic headlands, while far away to the left Hikurangi (the 

 mountain near the East Cape) hid his venerable head, in the 

 clouds. Continuing our march till near sunset, we halted for 

 the night by the side of a small stream in a desolate wild 

 called by the Maoris Tapatapauma. The sides of this rivulet 

 were ornamented with fine plants of a species of large-leaved 

 Fag us, which I believe to be quite distinct from a closely 

 allied species discovered by me at Whangarei in 1839,1 though 

 both considered as one species (F. fusca) by Sir J. D. Hooker. 



The next morning I resumed my journey. Gaining the 

 summit of the high hill before me, I had an extensive view of 

 the interior. Hill rose on hill (Pelion on Ossa) in continuous 

 succession as far as the eye could reach. To the left was 

 Whakapunake (the fabled residence of the gigantic moa), an 

 immense table-topped hill, or rather mountain ; while to the 

 right, far away in the distance, Panekire, a peculiarly preci- 



* B. macrcypus, Hook. f. 



t "The leaves of the species of Fagus detected at Whangarei are 

 ovate-cordate, serrate nearly to base, truncate subtridentate, number of 

 serratures in each leaf 15-21, petioles slightly villous, leaves larger and 

 broader than in the species found at Tapatapauma, which are rhombic- 

 ovate, upper half of leaf serrate or sublaciniate, the apex much more 

 truncate and tridentate, attenuated at base, serratures acuminate or 

 mucronate, 11-13 in each leaf, petioles and whole upper surface of leaf 

 tomentose." — W. C, MSS. ined., " Tasmanian Journal of Natural 

 Science," vol. ii. ( p. 234. 



