Cheeseman. — Gontrihutions to N.Z. Flora. 443 



/. Bay of Islands and Whangarei. — Motuarohia Island, 

 Banks and Solander, according to Solander's MS. (1769). 

 Taranaki Island (at the mouth of the Kerikeri River) ; Colenso 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xviii, 292), Bev. B. Taylor, Bishop Williams, 

 and others. Mr. Colenso also states (Trans. N.Z. Inst., I.e.) 

 that it was also found " on two or three of the smaller islets 

 of that bay." Limestone Island (Whangarei River) ; B. Mair, 

 who informs me that in 1843 there were numeious fine bushes 

 of it in this locality, and that it lingered as late as 1880. Mc- 

 Leod's Bay (Whangarei Heads) ; B. Mair, who observed a few 

 plants in 1850. In this locality it disappeared shortly after the 

 establishment of European settlers and their cattle. 



//. Other Northern Localities. — Great Barrier Island ; Kirk 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., i. 150). Thames : Kirk, " Students' Flora " 

 (now extinct in a wild state). Flat Island, near Howick ; 

 T. F. C. ; not uncommon in 1878, but has been extinct for many 

 years. Mercury Bay ; A. Cunningham, in his " Precursor," 

 gives this as a locality where it had been collected by the mis- 

 sionaries in 1833. I have been unable to find anv evidence that 

 it still exists in the district. 



III. East Cape District. — Anaura Bay (Tigadu) and Tolago 

 Bay; Banks and Solander/ 1769. Still exists on Motu-o-roi 

 Island, off Anaura Bay; Bishop Williams. Banks of the Hi- 

 kuwai River, flowing into Tolago Bay ; not uncommon as 

 far back as 1844 ; Bishop Williams. Is still found at a gorge 

 twelve miles inland from Tolago Bay, and on cliffs at Toko- 

 maru Bay ; H. Hill. East Cape Island ; Bishop Williams : still 

 fairly plentiful ; Mr. Arnold. Mangatokerau Gorge, beyond 

 Waiapu ; Tiniroto ; road to Morere ; still found in all three 

 localities ; H. Hill. Back of Maraetaha (Poverty Bay) ; fairly 

 plentiful in 1841 and succeeding years, but now extinct ; Bishop 

 Williams. Taikawaka (near Whareongaonga. Te Kooti's land- 

 ing-place) ; fairly plentiful ; H. Hill. Cliffs on Lake Waikare- 

 moana, and gorge near the Reinga Falls ; not uncommon ; 

 H. Hill. 



From the above list it is evident that the plant had a fairly 

 wide distribution, chiefly on or at the base of cliffs in littoral 

 districts. Its disappearance is doubtless due to cattle, which 

 greedily eat it, and soon exterminate it in any locality to which 

 they have access. 



Mr. Hill informs me that in the East Cape localities the flowers 

 vary considerably in colour, size, and in the shape and relative 

 proportions of the petals. At Waikaremoana the flowers are 

 comparatively small and reddish-purple. At Tolago and Toko- 

 maru the flowers are large, and the standard very broad, with 

 a whitish stripe on each side near the base. A white-flowered 



