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althougli this would have been very interesting to my Frencli friends, it was 

 not so to me, as it had happened, curiously enoiigh, that I had never gone out 

 by myself without finding it, and they only knew it from my specimens, 

 having never been able to meet with it, even when I directed them to the 

 spot where I had gathered it. It is a curious enough plant from its true 

 arborescent habit, but the flowers are not handsome, being dark green, stained 

 on the lip with purple ; they are somewhat i-emarkable for their coriaceous 

 texture and for being sweet-scented, a character I do not recollect among 

 Lobeliacece. There is a closely allied species at the island of Raiatea, which is 

 much regarded by the natives, who consider it in some manner as sacred to 

 the Queen. It is, I believe, very rare. The flower is white, but otherwise 

 just like the other, save that T do not hear that it is "noa-noa" (sweet- 

 scented) ; the stems appear very succulent, and the leaves are lanceolate, 

 finely serrated, and very much crowded on the ends of the branches. The 

 native name is "tiari apatai"; " tiari" means a flower, or more particularly 

 the flower of the Gardenia ; I never could discover the meaning of the second 

 word. I promised a woman who was going to Raiatea a new handkerchief if 

 she would bring me up seeds or a plant of it, but she did not return before 

 I left. I also promised a sister of the Queen's to give her a plant of the 

 double Gardenia^ of which I was the sole possessoi-, and which is so much 

 coveted that I might have got for it almost anything I had chose to ask. 

 I left the Gardenia with a friend who will give her the plant and forward the 

 seed to me when she gets it, which, through her sister, she will no doubt be 

 able to do. 



I found that it would take, as the natives had told me at the pa, a whole day 

 at least to get to the top of the Crown, and I therefore was obliged to give up 

 the attempt for the time, fully intending to return some other day when I had 

 more time at my disposal, but just when I was thinking of again making the 

 attempt I received a message from, the natives to request me not to come, 

 because the natives at Punaria, another stronghold at the other end of the 

 pass, were jealous of my having been there. I should still have made the 

 attempt before I left the island if I had not been attacked with an illness 

 which made me fear the efiects of walking so much in the water, as I should 

 have been obliged to do in ascending the valley. 



