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Rama-rama,rohutu } (myrtus bullata). The myrtle ; it has 
a fragrant leaf, and a pretty white flower ; it attains the 
size of a small tree, about thirty feet high, and is said to be 
common to the Chilian forests. 
Fain. Rosacea? . Pirikahu, kaikaiaruri, hutiwai, (acoena 
sanguisorbce) . A low creeping bnr, which sticks to the 
garments, as the name implies. It is called Hine-nui-te-po’s 
hair. 
The tutai whioi } a fine scarlet flowering bur, found on the 
central plains. 
Tataramoa, (Rabrus Australis). The New Zealand bramble 
or raspberry ; it produces an orange-colored fruit, of good 
flavor, and in great abundance, upon which the pigeon feeds, 
this plant climbs up to the tops of the highest trees, and 
frequently has a stem six inches in diameter; it looks like an 
immense rope suspended from the highest branches, and is 
coiled in large folds on the ground ; the wood is used for any 
purpose which requires flexibility. ( Rubrus Schmidelioides — 
cissioides), the last is a remarkable bush; the leaves are 
extremely small, placed at the ends of a long cruciform-shaped 
stalk, covered with small bright yellow spines. I have never 
noticed either flower or fruit ; the bush appears at first sight 
to be destitute of leaves. 
Fam. Leguminosce. — Kowai, Edwardsia microphylla.) This 
tree attains a very great size in the interior ; on the Ruahine 
range it is found as large and lofty as any of the trees in the 
forest ; it bears a bright yellow papilionaceous flower thick 
and short in early spring, which gracefully hangs pendant 
from the slender branches, ( — grandiflora, clianthus puniceus.) 
Koivaingutukaka,t he parrotVbill acacia, from the resemblance 
its bright red flowers bear to it ; this much admired shrub 
is only met with in the vicinity of old pas, and it is not impro- 
bable that it has been introduced. I received an account of 
a French vessel, which was captured many years ago in the 
Bay of Islands ; the natives emptied many of the boxes on a 
small island in the Kerikeri River, which to their disappoint- 
ment were found to be only filled with seeds ; it was remarked 
a few years afterwards the whole island was covered with this 
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