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Many other plants of interest were collected at Whangaroa. A fine new 
Melicytus attains the height of 15 feet, with glossy, laurel-like leaves 4 to 6 
inches long, apparently identical with a form observed in the Hunua and 
other districts, where it forms a remarkable object when in flower, the 
flowers being densely crowded on the branches in fascicles of from 5 to 12 
for the length of a foot or more, perianths large, campanulate, fleshy ; 
berries large, changing from white, through purple and violet, to black, as 
they approach maturity. A curious and interesting Panar, allied to 
P. lessonii, unites the simple and compound-leaved sections of the genus, 
As a shrub or small tree it attains the height of 10 to 15 feet, with whitish 
bark, leaves of two kinds, intermixed ; 1-foliolate on petioles, } to 2 inches 
long; lamina, 13 to 2 inches; ovate-acuminate; 3-foliolate on petioles 
3 inches long, leaflets sessile, 15 to 2} inches long, ovate-acuminate or ovate- 
lanceolate, both forms distantly serrate, coriaceous, petioles exstipulate. 
Flowers not seen, umbels terminal, of 8 to 5 slender rays, fruit globose, 
racemed, styles 5. Another undescribed Pittosporum (P. ellipticum, Kirk, 
var. ovatum) was obtained here. An erect tree, 20 to 30 feet high, with 
spreading, obovate, obtuse, coriaceous leaves, 13 to 2 inches long, pubescent 
beneath. Flowers not seen, peduncles solitary or in 2- to 4-flowered 
terminal umbels, stout, à to 2 inch long, pubescent, capsules globose, 
clothed with ferruginous down, 2-valved. An undescribed Pittosporum, 
CP. virgatum, Kirk), with the globose capsules and short peduncles of P. 
colensoi, but terminal, and frequently in 2- to 4-flowered umbels, instead of 
solitary and axillary, and differing in all other respects, is found on high 
ranges, and is precisely identical with a slender tree found on the Great 
Barrier. Panax anomalum, Libocedrus doniana were also collected. Many 
noble specimens of Dracophyllum latifolium, 30 feet high or more, were 
observed; and one of D. squarrosum, 25 feet, contrasting strongly in 
recollection with the diminutive specimens, some 3 to 4 feet high, which are 
not unfrequent in the vicinity of Auckland. The normal form of Haloragis 
tetragyna, Labill., was found sparingly, although long past flowering. In 
exposed rocky habitats it formed a small, compact, erect bush, 2 feet high ; 
but amongst fern it assumed the prostrate habit of the var. diffusa, still, 
however, preserving the long and sharply-toothed leaves without modification. 
Colensoa physaloides, which was first discovered here, is not unfrequent, 
. and attains a large size, its leaves being sometimes met with a foot long or 
. more. 
Many naturalized plants abound at Mongonui, the most conspicuous 
being Asphodelus fistulosus, Solanum virginianum (?), Seabiosa atropurpurea, 
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