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

1. Raukaraka.—A term much used about Cook Strait to describe the olive-coloured streaked variety of kawakawa. [Rau=leaf; karaka= Corynomacrpus lævigata.]
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 = Prosthemadera], which seems probable.
6. Kawakawa-aumoana.—Kawa = the plant Piper excelsum; moana = the ocean; au = cloud or fog. Perhaps the whole suggests seafoam.
7. Kawakawa-rewa.—Rewa = to melt. Explained to me by a chief as like whales’ blubber.
