Coriarut. | CORIARIACEAE. 547 
applied, For particulars, reference should be made to a paper by Professor Easterfield 
and Mr. B, C. Aston, published by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture ; and. 
to one by F. Fitchett entitled ‘ The Physiological Action of Tutin’’ (Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
vol. xli (1909) 286-366). The juice expressed from the ripe fleshy petals, when the 
seeds are strained from it, is quite innocuous, and is used aS a non-intoxicating drink 
by the Maoris. 
The probable identity of the South American C. rusci- 
New Zealand plant with the } 
folia was urst alluded to by Dr. Solander when dealing with the specimens obtained 
during Cook’s first voyage. But Forster, in his account of the botany of Cook's second 
= distinet, under the name of C. sarmentosa. In the ‘* Flora Novae- 
Hooker, a8 the result of the study and comparison 0 
specimens from both countries, definitely united them under the one name of OC. rusct- 
folia. Of late, the separation of the two plants has again been proposed, but not, so 
far as I can learn, as the result of any searching comparison, On the other hand, Mr. 
W. R. B. Oliver informs me that during a recent visit to England he had the oppor- 
tunity of examining sets of both plants in the Kew Herbarium, and formed the opinion 
that they are identical. For the present, therefore, I consider it unwise to disturb 
the existing nomenclature. 
voyage, described 1t a 
7elandiae, however, Sir J. D. 
2. Willd. Sp. Plant. iv, 819.— 
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