Kirx.—WNotes on Plants North of Auckland. 85 
Hunua, Kaipara, and elsewhere, but only immature fruit obtained, Height, 
20 to 40 feet, branches fastigiate or widely spreading, leaves not fetid, ovate, 
obtuse, rarely apiculate, suddenly narrowed into a winged petiole, purple 
beneath; fruit in small clusters, in the immature state, white and nearly 
transparent, veins distinct, reticulated, bark dark brown. 
Near the summit of the mountain a Celmisia with rather broad leaves 
was collected. The leaves are covered above with a thin pellicle, below with 
dense white tomentum, It is perhaps allied to C. monroi, an alpine species 
not hitherto recorded in the Northern Island, but flowering specimens will 
be required before its identity can be ascertained. The only noteworthy 
plants on the summit of the highest peak were Pomaderris edgerleyi and 
Angelica vosafolia. 
At the Bay of Islands, an Elatine, with the leaves mostly sessile and 
slightly serrate, was obtained. It is probably a form of E. americana. The 
serratures become partially obliterated under pressure. A solitary specimen 
of Prasophyllum pumilum was picked, and other plants well known to the 
locality. Naturalized plants are found in great abundance at Kororarika ; 
thirty species may be collected in a five minutes’ walk. 
On cliffs in the Cavalhi passage, at Whangaroa, and various points on the 
extreme northern coast, Zpomea tuberculata displayed. its erect, showy, bright 
purple flowers and 5-foliate leaves in the greatest abundance. It is more 
attraetive than many of its cultivated eongeners, and would prove a welcome 
addition to the garden. In the * Handbook of the New Zealand Flora" it is 
erroneously described as having rosy-red, drooping flowers. 
At Matauri Bay, the introduced @nothera stricta, so frequent on the 
voleanic hills about Auckland, forms a compact turf on the sands, just 
beyond high watermark. Many other plants are naturalized here. 
At Whangaroa, a fine Taxad, originally discovered in the north by 
Mr. Colenso, and more recently in this and other localities by Dr. Heetor 
and Mr. Buchanan, was identified with a tree lately observed on the Great 
Barrier Island, and which has been confused with Dacrydium colensoi. The 
Whangaroa specimens are of somewhat larger size than any observed on the 
Great Barrier, some of them having trunks nearly 4 feet in diameter, and 
attaining the height of 80 feet. Many of the clusters of seeds have 
their receptacles lined with a bright orange-coloured alveola, in which the 
faintly-ribbed nuts are imbedded: the receptacles destitute of this curious 
lining were invariably filled with nuts of a lesser size. 
The wood of this tree is extremely durable. Mr. Bell, of 02, 
stated that round stems, the thickness of a man's arm, driven into the river- 
bed at Waimate as palisades to a native pa, eighty years ago, were still. 
perfectly sound. 
