Shrubs, Flowers, and Plants.

• Anata.—A buttercup.
• Hanea.—A cress.
• Harakeke.—Phormium tenax. A New Zealand flax; flowers dark red; leaves long, drooping and narrow; the seeds may be used as a substitute for coffee; the root is employed by the natives as a purgative and worm medicine; the gum is applied to wounds and sores; the fibre of the leaf is used for rope-making and the manufacture of paper. Common throughout the interior in swampy places; growth from 4 to 8 feet.
• Heruna.—Polygonum adpressum.
• Kaikaiatua.—Rabdothamnus solandri. A plant.
• Kokota.—Epilobium minuta. A small willow-herb.
• Korikori.—A species of ranunculus.
• Koromiko.—Veronica salcifolia. A common shrub, with lilac or white flowers, lanceolate leaves; frequent all over interior; grows luxuriantly around southern and western region of Lake Taupo. page 355A decoction of the leaves is valuable in dysentery. The foliage is eaten readily by cattle.
• Koropuku.—A plant with a red berry, common in the vicinity of Tongariro.
• Koru.—A blue and white flower.
• Kotukutuku.—Fuchsia excorticata. A spreading tree-like shrub, leaves ovate lanceolate; bears a purple berry, yields a dye of the same colour; met with in all parts of interior.
• Kowhitiwhiti.—Watercress.
• Kalakuta.—A white flower.
• Manuka.—Leptospermum ericoides. A tree-like shrub, widely distributed all over interior; finest specimens met with in the Geyser Valley, Wairakei.
• Mataroa.—A flax-plant.
• Matuakumara.—A plant.
• Nahui.—Alternanthera denticulata.
• Nene.—Dracophyllum latifolium.
• Outatoranga.—Pimelia arenaria.
• Panahi.—Convolvulus.
• Panara.—Taupo primrose.
• Papataniwhaniwha.—Lagenopliora Forsteri. A plant like a daisy.
• Pototara.—Cyothodes oxydrus.—A plant with a small white fragrant flower, found growing on Rangipo table-land.

  Piripiri whata.—Carpodetus serratus.

• Poipapa.—Chenopodium triandrum.
• Poroporo.—An edible nightshade with a white flower.
• Puatea.—A yellow daisy.
• Puwha.—Sonchus oleraceus. Sowthistle, much used by the natives as a vegetable.
• Rengarenga.—Andhropodium cirrhatum. A lily.
• Rongotainui.—A flax used fox cordage and fishing-lines.
• Taihinu.—A white flower found at Taupo.
• Taretu.—A plant with blue berries.
• Tataramoa.—Rubus australis. A climbing bramble, armed with prickles, branches pendulous, leaves coriaceous; berry, red or amber-coloured; known to the colonists as the "bush lawyer;" found in all the forests of the interior; most frequent in Valley of Whanganui.
• Tikupenga.—Cordyline stricta.
• Titirangi.—Veronica sjpeciosa.
• Totaratara.—A small shrub with a white flower.page 356
• Tupapa.—Lagenophora Forsteri. Native daisy.
• Tutu.—Coriaria ruscifolia. A frequent shrub with glossy leaves and pendulous clusters of purple fruit, the seeds of which are poisonous as well as the foliage; produces a black dye.
• Waewaekaka.—Gleichenia hecystophylla.
• Wharangi.—Melicope ternata. A broad-leaved, poisonous shrub, very common in the forests of the Whanganui and Western Taupo.