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canoes, its lightness and durability causing it to be highly 
ued and preferred before all others. 1 do not observe any 
gum-resin exude from the tree, but the specimens of the tree 
I collected, when dried, had a very fragrant smell, which was 
not perceived in them when recently gathered. I noticed this 
tree in abundance on the banks of the river Kowa-Kowa, as 
well as on the lofty hills in the vicinity. The value placed on 
it by the natives is sometimes the occasion of quarrels, 
terminating in bloodshed, if it is cut down by any excepting 
the party by whom it is claimed ; for which reason, and that 
it might be known as belonging to certain individuals, a mark 
is placed on the tree, and it is then reserved until it has at- 
tained a sufficient magnitude for use; so that it is not unu- 
sual for the trees to descend from father to son." 
Although I possess specimens from all the collectors above 
mentioned, I am not furnished with the means of stating 
the exact localities where they were respectively found. Mr. 
Bennett's were probably from the Kowa-Kowa river, Mr. Co- 
lenso's from the neighbourhood ofthe Bay of Islands. One of 
Dr. Deifenbach's, with leaves full 2 inches long, and some 
of them considerably falcated, is from Mount Egmont, while 
Mr. Edgerley's researches extended little beyond the neigh- 
bourhood of Hokianga. Mr. Colenso, in his letter to me, 
dated Paihia, Bay of Islands, July 20th, 1841, says when 
offering some remarks on a valuable set of plants he sent me 
from the summit of Tongariro, a very high and volcanic 
mountain near the middle of the island, where they had 
been gathered by a gentleman who resided at Rotorua, a 
mission station, about three days’ journey from "Tongariro; 
* some of these grew amid the eternal snows on the *cloud- 
capt' top of the cone, from which place the adventurous ex- 
plorer brought a Pine (Podocarpus Totara), with its root, 
fully in fruit, yet only 3 inches high. Its branches were 
brachiate and recumbent, and formed a circle of a foot in 
diameter." 
The stations given by Mr. Allan Cunningham cannot all 
