336 NORFOLK ISLAND PINE. 



Holl. Tab. 38,) which shows that shrubs, &c. 

 from King George's Sound (to which place this 

 one is indigenous,) can be grown in perfection 

 at Port Jackson. 



In a pond the pretty white flowers and dark 

 leaves of Damasonium ovatifolium were floating, 

 and may be often seen swimming on the sur- 

 face of the more tardy streams in the colony. 

 The New Zealand flax plant does not appear to 

 thrive well, nor has it yet flowered ; the best plants 

 I have seen were at the " Vineyard," the resi- 

 dence of H. M'Arthur, Esq., who has planted it 

 in a moister soil. The Karaka tree, {Corynocarpus 

 Icevigata,) of New Zealand, was in thriving con- 

 dition, having reached the elevation of from 

 six to nearly fourteen feet, and borne fruit. 



The New Zealand species of DraccBna, (or Tee 

 of the natives of that country,) grows and 

 flowers well not only in these gardens, but is 

 frequently seen planted in front of the dwelling 

 houses in and about Sydney ; as also that lofty 

 species of Araucaria, (A. excelsa,) commonly 

 known by the name of Norfolk Island pine.* 

 The Indian bamboo also grows very luxuriantly 

 in the gardens, and in that part of the domain 



* Governor King, when at Norfolk Island, cut down one 

 which measured, after it was felled, two hundred and twenty- 

 eight feet long, and eleven feet in diameter. 



