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from the seeds of the Koliia {Pass flora tetrandrn). A gum-resin, used to 
perfume tlieir oil, was obtained from the Kohuhu, and the Tarata, (Pit- 
tosporum tenuifolium , and P. eugenioides ), and also from the Taramea, 
(Adphylla Colensot), which last was very highly prized. The strong 
smelling ferns, IJymenophyUum villosum, Doodia media , and Polypodium, 
pustulatum, were also used for the same purpose of perfuming, and for 
scenting oil; and so were a few fragrant IVlosses, and Hepaticw, called 
Kopura,—especially Lophocolea Novce-Zelwidice, and aUodonta . The 
aromatic leaves of the Raukawa, a very scarce small tree, sparsely 
growing in the high dense forests, (Panax Edgerleyi) } were also sought 
for a similar purpose ; particularly to rub their limbs and bodies. The 
daisy like dowel's of the Roniu (Br achy come odorata ,) and the flowering 
tops of the sweet-seen ted grass Karctu ( literocldoe redolens ), were worn 
around the neck, enclosed in fibrous leaves, as a scented necklace. 
Elegant female head-dresses were formed of flowering wreaths of various 
species of Clematis , (particularly licxasepala and Colemoi ), and of 
die graceful Waewaekoukou {Lycopodium volubile). Sometimes 
the snow-white downy fibres from the under side of the leaves 
of the Kowharawhara, and the Kaliakaha, {AStella Cunninghamii y 
and Solandri,) and the thin transparent epidermis from the leaves 
of the mountain Tikumu (Cclmisia coriacea ), were also used by 
females to ornament the hair and head. The fresh gum-resin from 
the Kauri ( Dammara australis) was commonly chewed as a masti¬ 
catory (/*.), so also was that obtained from the Tawhiwhi, or Kohuhu, 
( Pittosporum tenuifolium ,) mixed with the inspissated juice of the Puwha, 
or Sow-thistle, {Sonchus oleraceus ,) ingeniously collected. Combs were 
made of Mapara and Knpara, the hard dark woody tissue, or heart wood 
of Hi mu, {Dacrydium cupressinum ,) which was assiduously sought for 
in the forest among old prostrate rotting Iiimu trees; they were also 
carved out of Mataii and Manuka woods. The spines of the Tiunata- 
kuru, or New Zealand Thorn, {Discaria Toumalou,) were sometime used 
for tattooing,though instruments of bone were preferred; the black pig¬ 
ment for the same operation being obtained from the soot of old and 
hard Kapia, or Kauri resin, dug* out of the earth; and also from the 
ashes of the curious vegeto-caterpillar fungus, the Hawhato {Cordiceps 
Robertsii), which was sometimes mixed with the black juice of tlie 
Mahoe berry {Melicytus rami floras). Flutes were made of the woody 
stems of the Kohoho or Poroporo, {Solarium aviculare) f and of the 
Tupakihi or Tutu {Coriaria rusci folia). Ornamental boxes for holding 
