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BOTANY. 
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 smaller kind, which has a less leaf, 
much longer, narrower, and more pointed in proportion, with 
a larger fruit, less highly colored, but the natives do not eat it, 
considering it more dangerous than the former. There is also 
a very diminutive kind, with a flower not unlike that of mig- 
nionette, which it little exceeds in size ; it is only found in the 
interior: its fruit is not eaten. 
Fam. Rutacece .— Warangi , rangiora, (melicope ternata,) a 
small tree, with a large dark-green leaf, having a downy white 
underside; it bears a bunch of small flowers, which have the 
fragrance of the violet. 
The Pukeravgiora is a larger variety of the same ; the leaf 
is often nearly a foot long by nearly the same breadth: it pro¬ 
duces resin. This is a singular and very ornamental shrub, 
growing about twenty feet high, (melicope simplex .) 
Fam. Eupliorbiacece .— Tauwau, ueueeke, (euphorbia glauca ,) 
it chiefly grows near the sea-shore, and in open spots near the 
mouths of rivers. ( Plagianthus , devaricatus — betulinus ,— 
urticinus .) Nan nau. 
Fam. Santalacece. — Maire, maire tawaki, maire taiki, (mida 
salicifolia.) The representative of the sandal-wood family. 
(— eucalyptoides, — myrtifolia). 
Fam. Thymelacece. — Kaikaiatua , (pimelia virgala J a low 
shrub, bearing a small white flower, and having four leaves 
at right angles down the stem: it closely resembles the daphne 
outatoranga , (— arenaria , — Pilosa, — prostrata , — gnidia , — 
urvilliana .) 
Fam. Proteacece .— Torn, (persoonia torn,) a tree found in 
the Bay of Islands. Rewa, rewarewa, (knightia excelsa.) 
This beautiful tree closely resembles the banksia of Australia : 
when young it is very ornamental, and grows in a tapering 
form. It has a curious dark red honey-suckle flower. The 
wood greatly resembles that of the casuarina, and is durable. 
It is used chiefly for pales, shingles, and rails. It attains a 
considerable size and height. 
Fam. Laurineai .— Tarairi , (laurus tarairi,) a fine large- 
