56 Mr William Gorrie on New Zealand Plants 



native of only the Northern Island, or New Ulster, it has, 

 since its introduction to Britain in 1832, been generally 

 treated as a greenhouse plant, although in numerous 

 instances it has survived mild winters on southerly exposed 

 walls. A variety having much smoother leaves than the 

 original, which was raised in England and named C. p. 

 magnijicus^ is also much hardier than it, and has fully as 

 beautiful racemes of 2 to 2| inches long scarlet flowers. A 

 well-spread plant of this variety on a south wall attained 

 with me a height of about 14 feet, and had upwards of a 

 thousand flowers all fully expanded at one time. Next 

 winter, however, it was killed down to within 3 or 4 feet 

 of the ground, and although two seedlings from it flowered 

 and seeded in the open ground in summer 1877, they 

 were both killed in the succeeding winter ; but several 

 residents at Bute and other west-coast watering places 

 to whom I gave seeds were more successful with their 

 products. 



9. KuBus AUSTRALis, vav. cissoiDES. — The leaves of this 

 variety have the peculiar appearance of being almost ex- 

 clusively composed of rigid, prickly midribs. It and 

 several other varieties form thick, rambling, very prickly, 

 various-sized bushes, and are all about equally hardy, 

 standing our severest frosts in moderately sheltered dry 

 places. They are termed "Lawyers" by the settlers, and 

 Tataramoa by the Maories. 



10. Leptospermum scoparium (the Tea-tree and Brown 

 Myrtle of Settlers, and Manuka of the natives). — A pretty 

 white-flowered, large evergreen bush or small tree, the 

 leaves of which are used as tea, and the twiggy branches for 

 brooms. Among a number of three -year-old plants in the 

 open ground several almost escaped injury, while others 

 were more or less killed down. Like No. 4, it appears to be 

 perfectly hardy in our west coast climate. 



11. Fuchsia excorticata {KohnUcputu of the natives). — 

 This once common inhabitant of our greenhouses, although 

 never entirely killed, has its shoots so frequently cut down 

 as to prevent it from flowering, and gives it a sub-herbaceous 

 appearance. 



12. Fuchsia procumbens. — This pretty little trailing 

 plant, which within the last few years has become common 



