Tab. 563(1. 

 COEDYLINE australis. 



New Zealand Ti-tree. 



Nat. Ord. Liliaceje. — IIexandeia Monogtnia. 



Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Ferianthium campanulatum ; foliola 

 6, persistentia, aequalia, patentia, basi breviter v. lougius connata. Sta* 

 viina 6, basi fbliolorum perigonii inserta, filamentis subulato-nliformibus 

 glabris ; antlierae versatiles, oblonga?. Ovarium ovoideum v. obovoidcum, 

 obtuse 3-gonum, 3-loculare ; stylus rectus, columnaris, stigmate 3-lobo ; 

 orula in loculis pauca v. numerosa. JRacca subglobosa, 3-loeulari.s. oligo- 

 v. polysperma. Semina angulata, testa atra nitida. Arbores, rarius 

 berbae, stepe elata?. Folia apices versus trunci v. ramorum congesta, pa- 

 tentia. rnsiformia, coriacea, nervis parallclis, costa obscnra v. dislincta. 

 Paniculae ampla, exertee v. nutantes, ramosissinue, multijlora. Flores albi 

 v. ccerulei, S-bracteati, bractea intermedia 2-nervi, ceteris 1-nerriis. 



Cordyline australis ; caudice elato arboreo, demum ramoso, foliis ensifor- 

 mibus, 3-3 ped. longis, l|-2 poll, latis, supra basin paulo augustatis, 

 nervis uniformibus numerosissiniis striolatis, costa obscura, panicula 

 erecta ramosissiraa, floribus albis confertis. 



Cordylike australis. Hook.f. Fl. Nov. Zeal. v. 1. 1. 257. Oard. Chron. I860. 



p. 792. Handbook of New Zeal. Flora, 281 {non. Endl.). 

 Dracena australis. Forst. Prodr. 151. 



The history of the New Zealand and Australian Cordyliw* 

 was long in a. state of great confusion, which I attempted to 

 clear up in the 'Gardeners' Chronicle' in 18G0. I then 

 showed that the Dracwna australis of Forster, which was 

 undeterminable from that author's description, was, accord 

 ing to the figure in the Banksian Herbarium, not the plant so 

 cited in this Magazine (Tab. 2835). I also showed that the 

 Magazine plant, which was sent from the Sydney Botanical 

 Garden, was most probably procured from Norfolk Island, 

 whence I have dried specimens collected by A. Cunningham, 

 so long the Superintendent of the Sydney Gardens. 



I have now the pleasure of figuring what I believe to be 

 the true Dracaena australis of New Zealand, the commonest 



april 1st, 18G7. 



