]]> . No. 13 in [Sydney Parkinson], A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas.]]> [Sydney Parkinson]]]> ]]> A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas.]]> [Sydney Parkinson]]]> Endeavour, Banks kept a journal that vividly records his visits to Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. Botany was one of Banks’ passions and throughout the text he makes mention of plants discovered, and the exacting process of collecting, collating, and storing the specimens for the long trip home. This edition, the first full publication of the Journal, also contains illustrations by Sydney Parkinson, Banks’ botanical draughtsman. Here is the colourful kaka beak (Clianthus puniceus), which has a note on the back of the original sketch reading: ‘The capsula a bright yellow green’.]]> Joseph Banks]]> Metrosideros parkinsonii or Parkinson’s rata is in the same genus as pohutakawa and can be found in the northwest of the South Island and on the Barrier Islands in the north. Named after Cook’s botanical artist, Sydney Parkinson, the rata flowers are a bright red.]]> Thomas Frederic Cheeseman]]>