Creeping, Climbing, and Parasitic Plants.
(Common throughout the interior.)

• Aka.—Metrosideros buxifolia.
• Kareao.—Rhipogonum scandens. A climbing wiry vine, the "supple Jack" of the colonists; leaves three to five inches long, linear, ovate; often grows in entangled masses, abundant in all the forests; largest specimens found in the swampy forests of the Whanganui. A decoction of the root forms a good substitute for sarsaparilla.
• Kiekie.—Freycientia Banksii. A plant producing an edible flower and fruit.
• Kohia.—Parsiflora tetrandra. A climbing plant.
• Kowharawhara.—Astelia Banksii. A parasitical broad-leaved grass, growing in tufts on trees, bearing an edible berry.
• Kowhaia.—Edwardsia microphilla. A passion-flower; colour, green and orange, with fragrant fruit.
• Mawhai.—Sicyos Australis. A creeping plant.
• Patangatanga.—Freycientia Banksii.
• Pikiarero.—Clematis, bearing a beautiful white flower.
• Puawananga.—Clematis indivisa, bearing a white flower.