' p. 131:

"Tupakihi, tree tutu. A perennial shrub ten to eighteen feet
high; trunk six to eight inches in diameter. The so-called
berries (fleshy petals) vary very much in succulence. . . .
The juice is purple, and affords a grateful beverage to the
Maoris; and a wine, like elderberry wine, has been made from
them. The seeds and leaves contain a poisonous alkaloid, and
produce convulsions, delirium and death, and are sometimes
fatal to cattle and sheep."

1884. Alfred Cox, `Recollections,' p. 258:

"When footpaths about Christchurch were fringed with tutu
bushes, little boys were foolish enough to pluck the beautiful
berries and eat them. A little fellow whose name was `Richard'
ate of the fruit, grew sick, but recovered. When the punster
heard of it, he said, `Ah! well, if the little chap had died,
there was an epitaph all ready for him, <i>Decus et
tutamen</i>. Dick has ate toot, amen.'"

1889. G. P. Williams and W. P. Reeves, `Colonial Couplets,'
p. 20:

"You will gather from this that I'm not `broken in,'
And the troublesome process has yet to begin
Which old settlers are wont to call `eating your tutu;'
(This they always pronounce as if rhyming with boot)."

1889. Vincent Pyke, `Wild Will Enderby, p. 16 [Footnote]:

"The poisonous tutu bushes. A berry-bearing, glossy-leaved
plant, deadly to man and to all animals, except goats."

1891. T. H. Potts, `New Zealand Country Journal,' vol. xv.
p. 103:

"The Cockney new chum soon learnt to `eat his toot,' and he
quickly acquired a good position in the district."

<hw>Twenty-eight</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the
<i>Yellow-collared Parrakeet</i>. Named from its note.
See <i>Parrakeet</i>.

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. v. pl. 19:

"<i>Platycercus Semitorquatus</i>, Quoy and Gaim.,
Yellow-collared Parrakeet; Twenty-eight Parrakeet, Colonists of
Swan River. It often utters a note which, from its resemblance
to those words, has procured for it the appellation of
`twenty-eight' Parrakeet from the Colonists; the last word or
note being sometimes repeated five or six times in succession."

<hw>Twine Bush</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Hakea flexilis</i>.
See <i>Hakea</i>.

<hw>Twine, Settler's</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Settler's
Twine</i>.

<hw>Two-hooded Furina-Snake</hw>. See under <i>Snake</i>.

U

<hw>Umbrella-bush</hw>, <i>Acacia osswaldi</i>, F. v. M.,
<i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nat