KiEK. — JSFoies on Plants Nortli of AucMand. 85 



Huniia, Kaipara, and elsewhere, but only immature fruit obtained. Height, 

 20 to 40 feet, branelies fastigiate or widely spreading, leaves not fetid, ovate, 

 obtuse, rarely apieulate, suddenly narrowed into a winged petiole, purple 

 beneath ; fruit in small clusters, in the immature state, white and nearly 

 transparent, veins distinct, reticulated, bark dark brown. 



Near the summit of the mountain a . Celmisia with rather broad leaves 

 was collected. The leaves are covered above with a thin pellicle, below with 

 dense white tomentum. It is perhaps allied to C. monroi, an alpine species 

 not hitherto recorded in the Northern Island, but flow^ering specimens will 

 be required before its identity can be ascertained. The only noteworthy 

 plants on the summit of the highest peak were Pomaderris edgerleyi and 

 Angelica roscBfolia. 



At the Bay of Islands, an JEIatine, with the leaves mostly sessile and 

 slightly serrate, was obtained. It is probably a form of E. americana. The 

 serratures become partially obliterated under pressure. A solitary specimen 

 of Prasophyllum puonilum was picked, and other plants well known to the 

 locality. Naturalized plants are found in great abundance at Kororarika ; 

 thirty species may be collected in a five minutes' walk. 



On cliffs in the Cavalhi passage, at "Whangaroa, and various points on the 

 extreme northern coast, Ipomcea tiiberculata displayed its erect, sho"wy, bright 

 purple flowers and 5-foliate leaves in the greatest abundance. It is more 

 attractive than many of its cultivated congeners, and would prove a welcome 

 addition to the garden. In the " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora " it is 

 erroneoiisly described as having rosy-red, drooping flow^ers. 



At Matauri Bay, the introduced (Enotliera striota, so frequent on the 

 volcanic hills about Auckland, forms a compact turf on the sands, just 

 beyond high watermark. Many other plants are naturalized here. 



At Whangaroa, a fine Taxad, originally discovered in the north by 

 Mr. Colenso, and more recently in this and other localities by Dr. Hector 

 and Mr. Buchanan, was identified with a tree lately observed on the Grreat 

 Barrier Island, and which has been confused with Dacrydium colensoi. The 

 Whangaroa specimens are of somewhat larger size than any observed on the 

 G-reat Barrier, some of them having trunks nearly 4 feet in diameter, and 

 attaining the height of 80 feet. IMany of the clusters of seeds have 

 their receptacles lined with a bright orange-coloured alveola, in which the 

 faintly -ribbed nuts are imbedded : the receptacles destitute of this curious 

 lining were invariably filled with nuts of a lesser size. 



The wood of this tree is extremely durable. Mr. Bell, of Whangaroa, 

 stated that round stems, the thickness of a man's arm, driven into the river- 

 bed at Waimate as palisades to a native pa, eighty years ago, were still 

 perfectly sound. 



