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their fruits are disposed. On the shores 
'of the harbour, almost within the range of 
flood-tide, it afforded our Botanist (in his 
canoe-excursions with his Indian boys) 
great gratification to cull from the trunks 
of Metrosideros tomentosa (A. Rich.), call- 
ed Pohutukana by the natives, an orchi- 
deous Epiphyte, richly in flower, which 
M. Achille Richard has confounded with 
Dendrobium biflorum of Swartz, a plant 
exclusively indigenous to the Society Isles. 
Professor Lindley has, however, shown it 
to be very distinct, and has named it Den- 
drobium Cunninghamii (Bot. Reg. under 
fol. 1756). 
Quitting the harbour of Wangaroa, Mr. 
Cunningham now travelled from its en- 
trance southerly, along a line of sandy 
shore, not previously examined by Bota- 
nists. In this excursion, accompanied as 
he was by his friendly natives, he added 
many plants to his collections, of genera 
usually seen on the sea-coast, or in woods 
in its vicinity, his labours on this Occasion 
being especially rewarded by the discovery 
of an entirely new Fuchsia, which he found 
and in- 
not less did the scenery on either 
bank, and the character of that stream, call 
forth bis admiration. It is, to use the words 
of an eminent Missionary, “ a fine brawling 
torrent, in places very beautiful and roman- 
tic from its situation—here cutting its way 
through an extensive plain, there, rushing 
through 
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 
ing its limpid waters over precipices nin 
vities, or among crags and stones, or fli 
or one hundred feet in height, and 
itself into foam on the rocks bene 
(See Yate's Account of New Zealand, p 
In the woods, almost immediat 
below the larger of these! cataracts, by 
spray from which they are ever kept in 
very humid state, that rare and most. 
vered in New Zealand, alone exists, 
by reason of its pedicelled thece 
exserted upon a Receptacle, beyond 
urceolate Involucrum, thus presenting the 
orm of a spike or raceme, each capsu 
moreover, being furnished with an obliq 
annulus, constitutes the new and very dis- 
tinct genus, allied to Davallia, propos 
by Mr. Brown to be named Lozoma. Of 
estimated at sixty statute miles. | 
route in tth hd l wooded tracts, 
he added daily to his collection of speci- 
kianga River to the sea, our traveller " 
mined its very remarkable heads of en- 
trance, where, among other fine plants, Ae- 
discovered a new and beautiful Veromca, 
! This splendid fall of the waters of the Keri pes 
which, says the Rev. W. Yate, in the per jai 
above cited, ** is poetically denominated by the ™ 
tives, the Waiani-waniwa, or “ Waters of 
b 
e Waiani-wantwa 
ow," is situated 
about two miles from the Mission 
, the m h^ 
posed of loose stoues, covered with Mosses F nid] 
such Phzenogamous plants as love a perpetual i 
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atmosphere. 
