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the chiefs. Native name on the Great Barrier, pau—a favourite food of 
pigeons. , 
Olea [n.s.?] apetala, Vahl.—A very handsome umbrageous shrub or small 
tree, 12 to 25 feet high ; branches spreading, often tortuous ; bark brown, 
sometimes deeply furrowed and corky ; leaves opposite, 3 to 4 inches long, 
1 to 2} inches wide, ovate, acute, or acuminate, very coriaceous and glossy, 
midrib prominent, and with veins distinct beneath ; racemes of female flowers 
stout, 1 to 15 inch long, spreading, 12- to 18-flowered, flowers on rather long 
pedicels ; male flowers not seen. The foliage of this fine species greatly 
resembles that of Camellia japonica, and differs widely from its nearest ally, 
Olea cunninghamii. 
Utricularia ?—4 small species, allied to U. nove-zealandie, but differ- 
ing in the 3-nerved linear, spathulate, entire leaves, and in the 1- or rarely 2- 
flowered scapes, which have four minute bracteoles, arranged cross-wise at 
the base of the peduncle; sepals very broad, inflated, entire, upper lip of 
corolla rounded, waved, lower tip fan-shaped, but the margin flattened in the 
middle, entire; seeds rugose. 
Veronica ?— This is a fine shrub, apparently intermediate between 
V. ligustrifolia and V. parviflora, sometimes attaining the height of 15 feet 
or more, with the stem measuring 2 feet 8 inches in cireumference, and pro- 
ducing its small dense-flowered racemes in the greatest profusion; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, sessile, flat or keeled; racemes scarcely longer than the 
leaves ; sepals small, acute, with membranous margins ; corolla small, white ; 
capsules more than twice the length of the ealyx. 
Astelia “ grandis,” H.f., n.s.—A noble plant, imperfectly described, and 
referred to * 4. nervosa, or a near ally,” in the “ Handbook of the New 
Zealand Flora,” p. 744. 
Astelia [n.s.] trinervia, n.s.—Allied to A. banksii, but readily dis- 
tinguished by the triple nerve on each side of the leaf, and by the crimson fruit. 
Dacrydium, n.s.—A dicecious tree, 40 to 60 fect high or more, 2 to 3 feet 
in diameter; bark reddish brown, slightly flaky ; wood red, durable ; branches 
spreading below, fastigiate above. Leaves of two kinds: on immature trees, 
and frequently on the lowest branches of old trees, up to 40 feet high, 
linear-lanceolate, 1 to 13 inch long, distichous or scattered, narrowed into 
a very short petiole ; costa slender, acute, not pungent. Small leaves broad, 
rhomboidal, membranous on the upper edge, densely imbricated, and appressed 
to the terete branchlets, 7; to } inch long. Male catkins sessile, terminal, 
solitary, $ to i inch long, of minute, loosely imbricated scales; anthers not 
seen. Female catkins terminal, solitary, 2 to 1 inch long, of few tumid green 
scales, ultimately bearing 2 to 5 faintly-ribbed compressed nuts, with rounded 
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