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Dr. King indicates a similar dimorphism of the leaves for his A. Kinst- 
ert. Ir my assumption be correct A. elastica, Reinw., ex Bl. Bijdr. 
1825),is the name to be used for the < tarap’ tree of which the 
timbaran is mohel a variety.” 
New Zealand contributions to Museum.— The Rev. W. i PEA T 
F.R.S., F .L.S., of Napier, New Zealand, to epee the Museum 
inches broad, made of the bark of the Totara (Podocarpus Totara, A. 
Cunn.). The outer bark is Lad scraped away and the remainder 
very evenly bent or eurved into a boat-shaped form, the ends being 
folded and brought together, and neatly tied. "These dishes were used 
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viously arranged in the tree, was NENT let loose, piercing and killing 
the bird. Mr. Colenso, in a paper on “ Reminiscences of the ancient 
marie d published in the 7; Vanodc/sini of the New emen — 
voles 1891, p. 451, describing the use of these dishes says: **I may 
ere difon ‘that I have seen these totara-bark dishes with water in 
* them fixed high up on a big branches of trees in the woods in the 
* Urewera country, having flax nooses so set over the water as to catch 
= oo hold fast the pieni in its drinking. I have seen pigeons so caught, 
* the Maoris ene ing the trees naked with the agility of monkeys to 
* secure their fy 
Ancther vorteibation to the Kew collection, made by Mr. Colenso, is a 
belt made of the long orange-yellow leaves of the Pingao (Dromoschenus 
sptralis, Hook, f.), a spreading, seaside — plant, which is said 
to be extremely strong and durable. This is also referred to at p. 465 
of Mr. Colenso's paper before mentioned. 
The Sandalwood of Juan Fernandez.—lt is a matter of uM that 
this island.formerly abounded in sandalwood of some kind, Gay 
(Flora Chilena, v., p. 326), although he apparentiy bad no ipdbiihéta 
from Juan Fernandez itself, refers it without doubt to Santalum album, 
but had all perished in one year, and only dead trunks were to be found: 
just as happened to the plane tree in England in the eene century : 
“ En otro tiempo era muy comun en la isla de Juan nandez, pero 
** perecieron todos en un mismo año y hoy no se drial oa sino troncos 
* muertos ; lo mismo sucedió en Inglaterra con el Platano en el siglo 18. m 
F um 
urred in the gr 
there, $$ no Nee had seen it, and the species was altogether 
unknown: * In Juan Fernandez lignum vetustum in terra in- 
if vitidti ‘coloris m odoris Santali, et planta verosimiliter adhuc exstat, 
$ nullo botanico visa sit, species omnino incognita est.” 
But ilie are now irrefragable proofs of the continued existence of a 
kind of sandalwood in the island; and Mr. F. Philippi has published 
the recent history of this interesting tree in eg em Anales del Museo 
Nacional de Chile, of which we have only see on, 
entitled Botanische Abhandlungen, &c., in witicli ‘the unies plates are 
reproduced. As long ago as 1868 branches, with a few leaves, of a 
