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flowers. Common at Dunedin. Wood soft, white, splits freely, but not 
durable. Flowers in October. 
Ribbon-wood (Hoheria populnea var. angustifolia). A tree with all 
the beauties and faults of the last. Common near Dunedin. Flowers in 
January. i 
Ribbon-wood (Pennantia corymbosa). This tree and the two former are 
often confounded, being very similar in general appearance, andin soft, white, 
easily splitting, worthless wood; in the season being covered with masses : 
of small, white, fragrant flowers; and not very dissimilar in the leaves. 
Common near Dunedin. Flowers in December. d 
Ribbon-wood (Hoheria populnea var. crategifolia). A very ornamental 
iree, found on the West Coast. Similar to the former, but with larger 
flowers. j 
Ribbon-wood, or lace-bark tree (Plagianthus lyallii). 
shrub-tree, with large leaves and flowers. 
and West Coast. 
Marav Famiry.— White mapau ; tarata (Pittosporum eugenioides). One 
of the most beautiful trees in New Zealand ; grows to a comparatively large 
size in Otago, with a trunk 18 inches to 2 feet diameter. Leaves shining, 
silvery. Flowers in large, pale yellow corymbs, very fragrant. The leaves, 
when bruised and mixed with fat, are used by the Maoris as a perfume. 
Wood soft, white, worthless. Bark exudes a resin. 
Black mapau, or tipau (Pittosporum colensoi). A shrub-tree, very 
ornamental in contrast with the last; the whole tree very dark coloured. 
Flowers solitary, dark purple. Wood soft, white, worthless; 12 inches 
diameter. 
A very ornamental 
Common on the central ranges 
Black mapau, or tipau (Pittosporum tenuifolium). A smaller-leaved 
species, probably a variety of the last. Leaves smaller, pale green, shining. 
Wood soft, white, worthless ; 12 inches diameter. Pittosporum rigidum, a 
straggling shrub of the West Coast. . 
Famity.—Kaiwhiria (Panas simplex). A small, dark-foliaged, 
l-foliolate shrub-trec. Leaves of young plants, and lower branches of old 
plants, 3-foliolate, sometimes deeply lobulate when young (seldom so at 
Dunedin), slightly fragrant when bruised. This is probably only a variety 
of the next. 
Raukawa (Panax edgerleyi). A good-sized tree at Dunedin, 18 inches to 
2 feet diameter. Large, shining leaves, 3-foliolate in the young plant, and 
deeply lobulate ; leaves of lower branches of large trees retain the 3-foliolate 
form. Leaves fragrant when bruised, and, when mixed with fat, used by the 
Maoris as perfumery. ë 
- Panas anomalum. A small shrub found at Waikawa, 
