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wind, after sunrise, began to freshen from the north-westerit 
quarter, there were but too evident appearances ofthe day 
proving more or less showery. At an early hour, whilst it 
continued fair, I again climbed the ridge, accompanied by 
one of my people; and after pushing our way through some 
brushes of Caper, entered a thick, close, wood, in which 
Croton sanguifluum (Baloghia lucida, Endl.), Hibiscus Pater- 
sonii (Lagunaria Patersonii, G. Don), Myoporum obscurum, 
Forst., Blackburnia pinnata, Forst., the large Piper (P. psit- 
tacorum, Endl. and Olea apetala, Vahl., were very frequent. 
This latter I found in flower and young fruit, and was, 
therefore, fully enabled to establish its identity with Forster - 
plant, originally found by that botanist in New Zealand. 
The Coccoloba australis (Polygonum australe, A. Rich.) 
which I formerly detected on the sandy shores of the Bay of 
Islands, I also met with, in open situations, but not in fruc- 
tification. On the southern and western sides of the island, 
where more particularly I directed my walk, I observed on 
grassy spots Commelina cyanea, R. Br., Solanum nigrum?, 
Plumbago zeylanica, with the purple flowering Dolichos (Ca- 
navalia Baueriana, Endl.) bearing its pods, which are tricari- 
nated on their upper edge. A few blighted trees of Arau- 
caria stood detached from each other in open exposed situ- 
ations, but not a single tree fern was met with in the deep 
gullies we descended, where only two species of Filices, S0 
frequent on the large island, were remarked, We had, at 
length, traversed every part of the island, when rain began to 
fallin heavy showers, which appearing to have set in for the 
day induced me to hasten back to the encampment, The 
evening closed in with a very lowering aspect; the wind 
which had blown during the greater part of the day in squalls, 
having brought up rain-charged clouds from the north-west 
ern horizon, at length set in a tempestuous night, from which 
my people found ample shelter beneath a well-thatched 
Guinea-grass hut, which they had constructed in the course 
of the day. 
* 19th.—Much rain fell in the course of the night, and 
