"On the purchased land stands, or lately stood, a small kahikatea bush. . . . The wood appears to have been of no great money value, but the natives living in Tareha's pa depended upon it for their supply of fire-wood."
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand, p. 124:
[It is Sir James Hector who assigns the tree to <i>Coniferae</i>, not <i>Taxaceae</i>.]
1888. Cassell's' Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iii. p. 210:
"The White Pine or kahikatea is a very beautiful tree, and droops its dark feathery foliage in a way which recalls the graceful branches of the English elm-tree."
<hw>Kahikatoa</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for /a/ New Zealand shrub, but no longer used by the settlers.
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand, p. 126:
"Kahikatoa, <i>tea-tree</i> of Cook. <i>Leptospermum scoparium</i>, Forst., <i>N.O. Myrtaceae</i>."
<hw>Kahikomako</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name [shortened into <i>kaikomako</i>] for a New Zealand timber, <i>Pennantia corymbosa</i>, <i>N.O. Olacineae</i>; called also <i>Ribbonwood</i> (q.v.).
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand, p. 130: