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BOTANY. 
shrub ; its beauty attracted attention ; the flowers were stuck 
in the ear as an ornament, the seed was sought after and 
carried to every part ; there appears some probability in this 
having been the case, it differs so widely from other New 
Zealand plants. 
(Guilandina bonducj maukoro, ( carmichaelia Australis , 
griselinia lucid, a,) makaka maukoro , a broom, bearing a very 
pretty white flower streaked with purple, only found in the 
interior. Taunoka , the common broom ; there is a saying, 
that it has no heart, and a bad man is compared to it ; there 
are several varieties of it, but, with one exception, their 
flowers are insignificant. 
Fam. Rhamnece.—Piripiri wata , ( carpodetus serratus,) it 
bears a small white flower, and is found near Lake Omapere. 
Pennantia corymbosa. Kumarahou , (; pomaderris kumarahou,) 
a pretty shrub, bearing tufts of buff-colored flowers, only 
found in the north end of the island. Tauhinu, ( — ericifolia,) 
a shrub also peculiar to the north, bearing an insignificant 
white flower. To this family also belong Corokia and Ixerba. 
Fam. Goriariacece. — Tujoakihi , tutu , Pukou, (coriaria sar- 
mentosa ,) peculiar to New Zealand, and formerly abounded 
in every part of the islands, but is now as rapidly disap- 
pearing, as cattle and sheep increase; it produces a large 
droop of a currant-like fruit, of a deep purple color, with 
seeds outside ; the natives express the juice in large quan- 
tities, which they drink with impunity, having first carefully 
strained off all the seeds and foot-stalks, which are highly 
poisonous ; they also boil it with sea-weed, and eat it in the 
form of jelly ; sheep and cattle are extremely fond of its 
leaves; the young shoots come up remarkably strong, tender, 
and succulent ; if fed upon the first thing in the morning 
with an empty stomach, it frequently occasions death, but, 
otherwise, taken with grass, it appears to be as nourishing 
a food as clover, which also produces similar effects ; it is 
remarked, that this plant makes much rich vegetable soil ; 
at any rate, it is never found flourishing on bad land ; it 
attains a height of from fifteen to twenty feet ; there is a 
another kind, with a smaller leaf, much longer, narrower, 
