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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 70

Other Varieties

Other Varieties.

I have collected from various sources other words describing varieties and subvarieties, or perhaps local words.

page 42
1.Raukaraka.—A term much used about Cook Strait; to describe the olive-coloured streaked variety of kawakawa. [Rau = leaf; karaka = Corynocarpus lœvigata.]
2.Kuru-tongarewa [Kuru = an ear-ornament; tongarewa = a precious jewel].—It is sometimes, apparently, connected with greenstone thus:—
3.Kawakawa-tongarewa.
4.Kuru-pounamu.
5.Tutaekoka (a stain in greenstone explained in a story already narrated).—I am unable to obtain a satisfactory meaning for koka. Mr. Tregear suggests koko [= the bird tui = Prosthemaders], which seems probable.
6.Kawakawa-aumoana.—Kawa = the plant Piper excelsum; moans = the ocean; au = cloud or fog. Perhaps the whole suggests sea-foam.
7.Kawakawa-Rewa.—Rewa. = to melt. Explained to me by a chief as like whales' blubber.