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List of the Indigenous Vascular Plants—continued.

Species, &c. Popular Name. Life-form. | Remarks. Myetaoeae (Myrtle Family). Leptospermum scoparium J. R. et G. Manuka, red tea - tree Erect twiggy shrub .. The dominant plant of Eorst. (" ti-tree " incorrect) the mountain. - ericoides A. Rich. .. .. White tea-tree .. Mat-forming or erect shrub Common. Metrosideros robusta A. Cunn. .. Northern rata .. Tall tree, but medium-sized Rain-forest in crater on the mountain only. Its early epiphytic habit should have made it an early settler on the open ground. Onageaceae (Willowherb Family). Fuchsia excorticata (J. R. et G. Tree-fuchsia .. .. Small deciduous tree .. Only in rain-forest of Forst.) Linn. f. crater ; not seen by me. Araliaceae (Aealiad Family). Nothopanax arboreum (Forst. f.) Whauwhaupaku .. Small tree, but as yet only Common. Seem. dense shrub on the mountain Pseudopanax crassifolium (Sol. ex A. Lancewood .. .. Small tree, but the slender Here and there. Cunn) C. Koch var. unifoliolcMwtn juvenile with long, deT. Kirk flexed lea,ves is the form on the mountain CORMAOEAE (DOGWOOD FAMILY). Corokia buddleoides A. Cunn. var. Korokio .. .. Medium-sized shrub .. Occasional on upper linearis Cheesem. j part of mountain. Ericaceae (Heath Family). Gaultheria antipoda Forst. f. .. Snowberry .. .. Small shrub, 2-4 ft. high or This is the erect form more apparently common j throughout New Zealand, with varieties with white and dark j red —almost black— swollen calyces when ... I in fruit. " x oppositifolta .. ! .. Small or tall shrubs .. Rainbow Mountain is destined to become botanical ly famous on account of this | wonderful series of hybrids, specially abundant where ground has been cleared at beginning . . . ! of track. oppositifoha Hook. f. .. Niniwa .. .. Medium -sized shrub to Common. almost a low tree Epaceidaceae (Australian Heath Family). Gyathodes acerosa R. Br. .. Mingimingi (a name used, Small shrub with short, Common. The species unfortunately, for other sharp leaves is made up of many plants) varieties, and is badly I I understood. empetnfolia Hook. f. .. Prostrate mingimingi .. Small prostrate shrub .. Only observed on wettish ground near beginning of track. Leaves seem shorter and more hairy than I usual. Leucopogon fasciculatus (Forst. f.) i Tall mingimingi .. I Tall erect shrub A. Rich. Dracophyllum strictum Hook. f. .. Totorowhiti .. .. ! Tall shrub with rather long, Common. The juvenile, narrow, tapering, sharply with broader leaves pointed leaves than the adult and long persisting, is the more abundant. ' " subulatum Hook. f. . . Monoao .. .. Medium-sized shrub with Grows gregariously on brownish grassy leaves specially barren ground. Loganiaceae (Logania Family). Geniostoma ligustrifolkcm A. Cunn. I Hangehange .. .. Tall much-branched shrub Only in the rain-forests of the crater. Sceophulariaceae (Koromiko Family). Hebe salicifolia (Forst. f.) Pennell Common koromiko .. ; Tall much-branched shrub Rare; one of the many varieties of this compound species.