“The traveller, from whatever country, on arriving in New Zealand, 
himself surrounded by a vegetation that is almost wholly new to him, with lit 
that is at first sight striking, except the Tree-fern and Cordyline of the north 
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parts, and nothing familiar, except possibly the Mangrove; and as he extends his 
investigations into the Flora, with the exception of Pomaderris and Leptospermum,. i 
he finds few forms that remind him of other countries.”—J. D. Hooker, ‘Flora 
i; Novae Zelandiae,” Vol. i; Introductory Essay; Nov., 1853. 
