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A lesser amount occurs in Manuka, Rata, Fuchsia, Red Mapau, and 
Fagus Menziesii. 
Some Otago trees yield Dye-stuffs, one of which, at least, of Maori 
manufacture, has long enjoyed, equally among natives and settlers, 
a high reputation for brilliancy and permanence, viz. the “ Hinau,” 
the produce of Elæocarpus dentatus and E. Hookerianus. Strange to 
say, the skilled European colonist has hitherto failed to rival, in either 
brilliancy or permanence, the beautiful black dye produced by the sim- 
ple and primitive processes of the Maori. Dye-stuffs and Ink are pro- 
curable from the Fuchsia and Tutu,* while Phyllocladus alpinus, Hook.f. 
(bark), like its more northern ally P. érichomanoides, yields a red dye. 
A few Otago shrubs or trees yield gums or gum-resins, e.g. Rimu, Panaw 
Colensoi, and Pittosporum tenuifolium ; others, or some of their pro- 
ducts, are possessed of Medicinal properties, as aromatics, purgatives, 
stimulants, tonics, alteratives, or astringents, e.g. Manuka, Tutu,* 
Fuchsia, Drimys axillaris, Panax simplex and Edgerleyi, and Cordyline 
australis ; a few have poisonous properties, e. g. Tutu;* while others 
yield articles of food, or beverages, useful to man in his savage or 
civilized state, or to cattle, e. g. Cordyline australis (sugar and alcohol), 
Manuka (leaves), Fuchsia excorticata (fruit), Aristotelia racemosa 
(fruit), Coriaria ruscifolia (fruit),* Dacrydium cupressinum (leaves), 
Coprosma lucida (fruit), Panax Colensoi, and Melicytus ramiflorus 
(leaves for cattle). And, lastly, a few Otago trees, especially Liliaceous 
and Malvaceous ones, possess fibrous bark or wood suitable, apparently, 
for certain purposes in the manufacture of textile fabrics, cordage, or 
paper, e.g. Cordyline australis and C. indivisa, Plagianthus Lyallii 
and P. betulinus, and Hoheria populnea. 
THREE NEW CHINESE ASTERACE. 
Bx H. F. Hance, Pu.D. 
atl. Blumea amethystina, n. sp. ; caulibus erectis angulatis striatis 
inferne pubentibus superne villosis, foliis oblongis acutis basi attenua- 
* Vide my paper on '* Toot” (supra citat.), p. 161 
