BOTANY. 
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Towai, tawera, {Leiospernum racemosum) a large tree ; the 
wood red and streaked with black ; it is valuable for furniture. 
Makamaka {ackarna roscefolia ) . 
Fam. Crassulaceoe . — (Tillaea ) . 
Fam. Ficodece. — Fruerueka ( mesembryanthemum Australe) • 
There are two kinds, one bearing a pink the other a white 
flower. Rengarenga , {Tetragona expansa ) . The panamata, 
paraihia, a diminutive kind of spinach, with a very dark leaf. 
Fam. Cucurbit acece. — Mawai , {sicyos Australis) . A creeping 
plant, resembling the cucumber. 
Fam. P as siflor acece. — Kohia, powiwi { passijiora tetranda). 
It bears a small green and orange flower, rather fragrant, 
and a fruit of a bright orange color ; an oil is expressed from 
the seeds. 
Fam. Haloragece. — Toatoa { cercodia erecta), a stiff growing 
weed, about a foot and a half high, with a four-sided stem, 
and strong serrated leaf ; it is used medicinally by the natives. 
Cercodia alternifolia. — nicana , goniocarpus depressus,~te- 
tragynus. Piri piri, — citriodorus , myriophyllum propinquam. 
Fam. Onagracece. Kohutuhutu , kotukutuku , kohutukutuku 
{fuchsia excorticata ) , a large tree, frequently near three feet 
in diameter ; it takes its name from shedding its bark ; this 
is the only deciduous tree in the New Zealand forest, the 
flowers appear before the leaves, and generally from the 
branches ; they are at first of a greenish blue with a purple 
inside, but afterwards change to a bright carmine ; the fruit 
is edible. Totera {Fuchsia procumbens.) 
Epilobium nummularifolium , — peduncular e 9 {kokota) — mi- 
crophyllum , — rotundi/oliiim , — thy mi folium, — alsinoides , — nerte- 
rioides , — atriplicifolium , — pubens, — cinereum , — incanum 
hirtigerum, — virgatum , — glabellum , — confertum , — pallidiflorum , 
junce um , — hcdoragifolium . 
My rt acece . — This family, although less numerous in genera, 
yet possesses some of a very general distribution, and others 
which form some of the most beautiful and useful trees. 
Kahikatoa , manuka, Leptospernum scopiarum.) This is a 
beautiful tree, the leaf is small, but aromatic, the flowers 
white, and very abundant ; it produces both flowers and fruit 
