Selliera, Samolus, Leptocarpus, and other plants that delight in salt-sea spray. In one sheltered little bight a patch of Veronica speciosa was observed—really the only plant of special interest seen in the locality. Descending into a sandy bay on the northern side of the bluff, we passed a moist bank covered with Gunnera arenaria loaded with ripe fruit. From the abundance of the yellowish-red fleshy spikes it presented quite an ornamental appearance. Further on the slopes leading down to the bay were clothed with Phormium, or with a coppice growth of pohutukawa 6ft. to 15ft. in height, the stems growing quite close to one another like tea-tree. Reaching a long low point called Pitokuku, we struck inland over some sandhills to a sheltered camping-ground close to a little tributary of the Werabi Stream. Half an hour's walk on the following morning brought us to Cape Maria van Diemen, the extreme north-west point of the colony. The cape itself consists of a small island about 250ft. in height, separated from the mainland by a passage perhaps three-quarters of a mile in width. About fifty species of plants, native and introduced, were catalogued on the island. Phormium was the most abundant plant, but Cassinia, Muhlenbeckia complexa, Mesembryanthemum, Arundo, Scirpus nodosus, and other common seaside plants were plentiful. Under the flax-bushes the rare land-shell Bulimus bovinus can be obtained in some numbers, although it has decreased considerably since pigs and goats were introduced. Originally it must have existed in immense numbers, for the landward slope of the island is covered with the dead and bleached shells. Immediately opposite to the island, and bearing south-east from it, is a high rocky hill quite 400ft. in height, joined to the mainland by a low strip, of drifting sandhills. It is bare and desolate-looking, and has little vegetation on its landward face, except scattered plants of Cassinia, Leptospermum, Scirpus nodosus, &c. The cliffs towards the sea are still more barren. Here and there Coprosma baueriana may be seen, flattened and appressed to the rock; in other places are some straggling pohutukawas, shorn by the wind until their branches barely exceed a foot in height. In crevices of the rock the typical form of Asplenium obtusatum was not uncommon, accompanied by Lobelia, Samolus, Triticum multiflorum, &c. Desmoschænus, Spinifex, Festuca littoralis, and Convolvulus soldanella were the commonest plants on the sand. On the whole, the neighbourhood of Gape Maria van Diemen cannot be said to be attractive. Bare and barren rocks, flanked by high rounded sandhills, make up the dreary landscape; while seawards there are the miles and miles of savage breakers on the Columbia Reef, and nearer at hand the incessant roar of the waves on the shore.