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from the sides of the dark pits and ravines in the same 
locality. A peculiar species of Coprosma (C. crassi - 
folia* W. C.), I detected growing among the scoria on 
the northern side of the bay; together with a curious 
slender tree, bearing a profusion of red drupae, and 
having spathulato-orbiculate leaves, white and downy 
underneath, perhaps a species belonging to A. Cunning¬ 
ham’s new genus Corokia. This neighbourhood was 
once densely inhabited; but the frequent and sanqui- 
nary wars of the ferocious tribes of this benighted land, 
all but entirely depopulated these fertile districts. 
Having concluded to return overland to the Bay of 
Islands, and having obtained a supply of rice from the 
capital , the only portable article of food procurable in 
these parts — for we were now about entering on an un¬ 
inhabited route, and that, too, without a guide — early 
in the morning of the 4th, we left Otahuhu, in a small 
canoe which we had borrowed, and paddling down the 
bay about four miles we landed on the north side of 
the harbour; continuing our course by the muddy wind¬ 
ing shores to Te Wau, a little cove where the path 
leading to Kaipara commenced. Here, while my natives 
were engaged in cooking our breakfast, I, looking about, 
discovered a shrub of a genus altogether unknown to 
♦ Coprosma crassifolia. Foliis ellipticis orbiculatisve (3-5 lineas 
longis) obtusis fasciculatis kevibus carnosis petiolatis subtuspallidioribus, 
margine revolutis integerrimis rubescentibus, petiolus pubcscentibus 
purpureo-coloratus. Fructus, solitariisad apieem ramulorum sub-sessi- 
libus glabris viridi-maculatis; sepalis, monophyllus circurasciptus seu 
2-4 angulatis irregularitisve persistens. Ramis , brachiatis rigidis ad- 
scendentibus glabris.— W. C. MSS. 
Hab. Scoria, and rocky spots, shores of Manukau Bay, western coast. 
Obs. Closely allied to C. rhamnoides and C. divaricata . Flores non- 
dum vidi, 
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