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Thames ; but this is the only instance of this tree being found so far south, 
and I am inclined to think this to be its utmost south range; the genus, and 
indeed the whole Natural Order, being tropical plants. The Maoris informed 
Mr. Locke that another tree of this kind grew also at Kaiawa, a little further 
north, and that anciently the fruit, or seed, was used as beads for necklaces: 
for which purpose, and by a rude people, they were pretty well adapted, 
from their uniform size, and possessing an agreeable glossy appearance, and 
having a small hole at the end in the testa, which might also have given 
birth to the notion of boring and threading. 
As I find that Sir J. D. Hooker, in describing this genus, Sapota, has 
spoken of its fruit as a ** berry with one nut-like seed,"* I will also give my 
short description of it, as written on detecting it (a second time), 36 years 
ago; as such may be of service to future botanical collectors and observers: 
** On the high south headland of Whangaruru Bay, near which we landed, 
I discovered a clump of small trees bearing a handsome fruit of the size of 
a large walnut. Each fruit contained three large shining seeds, somewhat 
erescent-shaped, and having the front as it were scraped away. Its leaves 
are oblong, glabrous, and much veined, and its young branches lactescent. 
I have little doubt but that this tree will be found to rank in the Natural 
Order Sapotacez, and probably under the genus Achras. The natives call it 
Tawaapou.” + 
This, qim ‘was its name as given by the Maoris of Tolaga Bay to Mr. 
Locke. 
Arr. IX.— Notes on an ancient Manufactory of Stone Implements at the mouth 
of the Otokai Creek, Brighton, Otago. 
By Pror, Junius von Haast, Ph.D., F.R.S., Director of the Canterbury 
Museum. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, Tth August, 1879.] 
. Amonest the many localities where traces of the former occupation by a 
native race are open to our inspection, there is one of some interest situated 
on the small islet at the mouth of the Otokai Creek, Brighton, Otago, upon 
which I wish to offer a few observations, 
This islet is surrounded by the sea during high water, but it is evident, 
when the natives were here encamped, that the narrow channel now cutting 
it off from the mainland did not then exist. 
* Handbook, N. Z. Flora, p. 183. 
t Vide Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, (1843) Vol. II. p. 299, 
