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Of Scrophularinea, the genus Veronica has as many as 

 9 species. Some of them, peculiar to New Zealand, form 

 shrubs, and bear very beautiful flowers. To the same family 

 also belong the Gratiola sexdentata and Euphrasia cuneata. 

 Amongst the plants found by me on Mount Egmont is a 

 new species of the genus Ourisia (fam. Scrophularinese), 

 not yet described (Sir William Hooker). 



Of Cyrtandracece, is the Rhabdothamnus Solandri. 



Of Solanece, the berries of the Solatium laciniatum are 

 eaten by the natives, and its leaves used as cataplasms for 

 ulcers. They also eat the leaves of another small species of 

 the same genus. 



Of Myoporinece, the Avicennia tomentosa is the Man- 

 grove of New Zealand, covering the shallow inlets in the 

 northern part of the North Island. 



Of Verbenacea (same order as the teak), theVitex litto- 

 ralis is the Puriri of the natives and the New Zealand oak 

 of the colonists. Its quality of splitting renders it an ex- 

 cellent wood for firing. 



END OF VOLUME I. 



WILLIAM Ci.owKsund SONS, Stain 



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