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Hune from tlie fruiting Leads of the large Bulrush, ( Typlia angusti- 
folia ,) for beds, bolsters and pillows; and Honey;—since the intro¬ 
duction of Bees and their becoming wild. Of this last article a large 
quantity increasing every year, (particularly at the North,) finds its 
way into the market. 
2S. It is reasonably believed, that there are yet several indigenous 
plants and vegetable substances wliich may prove to be valuable both 
for use and export ; some of wliich are all but quite unknown to Arts 
and Manufactures : a few of them will be here mentioned.— 
(i.) Of Timbers :—(a. known hard wood#.) The Mairetawhalce, 
( Eugenia Maire); the Jloliutu (Jfyrlus pedunculatd ), especially the 
larger Southern tree ; the Maire ( Santdlum Cunninghamii ), a small tree 
with dark bark, of the Sandal-wood genus, scarcely averaging 30 feet in 
height, only known as growing in the dry forests Northward of 3G° 
South; the Manoao ( Dacrydium Colensoi), a small hard-wooded pine, 
incorruptible, (according to the Natives,) found sparingly in high and 
dry forests on the East Coast, north of Wliaugarci, and also in the 
mountainous country near Taupo ; and the long leaved Myrsine (M. 
salicma), being the next specieB to the well-known and valued beech¬ 
like Tipau or Mapau, (M, australis ,) and also a much larger tree. 
(b. trees supposed to be hard-ivooded.) The Tawari ( Ixerba 
brexioides ), the Toro ( Persoonid Toro), the Kohuhu, and the Tarata, 
(.Pittosporum tenuifolium , and P. eugenimdes ,) and the Porokaiwhiri 
(Iledycai'ya dentata) ; besides which there are, the white-wooded 
Horoeka (Andia crassifolia ), the Kaikomako ( Pennantia corymbosa), 
the large species of Plagianthus {P. betidinus ), and the Epicarpurus 
microphyllus (or Trophis opaca) ; all these, from thoir known affinities, 
are well worthy of a trial. 
(ii.) Of Barks : a . for dyeing; the Hinau,and the Pokaka, (Elceo- 
carpus dentatus , and E. Jfookerianus ,) for dyeing black ; and the Mako- 
mako (Aristotelia raceoiosa), for a blue-black. — b. for tanning ; the 
Toatoa, or Tanekaha ( Phyllocladus trichomanoidvs ), the Makamaka 
(Ackama roscefolia ), so closely allied to the Towai; and the Maanawa, 
or White Mangrove (Avicennia tomentosa ,) the bark of which is said to 
be extensively used for tanning at Rio Janeiro. 
(iii.) Sundries : The living bark, branches, stumps and roots, 
and even leaves, of the Kauri pino would yield a large amount 
of Kauri resin under proper management. The fibrous leaves 
of the Kiekie (Freycinetia Banksii ), is an excellent article for 
