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JOUENAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CORYNOOARPUS LAEVIGATA. 



FIGUEE 35. 



This tree is one of the chief constituents in the Chatham Island 

 forest, and is the largest tree there, attaining a height in places of 

 45 feet. Its foliage is everywhere perfectly glabrous, and the tree 

 bears conspicuous orange-coloured drupes 1 to 1^ inch long, which 

 formed one of the chief vegetable foods of the Maoris ; the seed, how- 

 ever, is poisonous. Except in the Isles of Scilly, the tree is nowhere 

 hardy in Great Britain. It is commonly known to New Zealanders 

 by the native name, Karaka. 



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Veronica gigantea. 



FIGURES 36 AND 37. i 



This remarkable Veronica is well named gigantea, and is a most | 

 striking feature in the forest. It is not uncommon, and when in !' 

 flower is very effective. Mr. T. F. Cheesman has classified it as a | 

 variety of V. salicifolia; but I never saw it assume the habit of this i 

 species, as everywhere it had a distinct trunk, and formed a miniature | 

 tree 15 to 20 feet high, while the seedling form differs entirely. [See 

 Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXXIV. (1902), p. 319.] 



