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"6. C. sp. ? Toii. A large tree, with many heads, and huge 

 broad massive leaves, yellowish, with yellow and red veins, 

 and ponderous inflorescence with long bracts and black shiny 

 seeds. This is the ti that the Natives use for mats, &c. The 

 portion of the description of the Handbook which refers to 

 C. indivisa, and which you got from Colenso, applies to this 

 plant." 



To this Sir J. Hooker adds, " I have no Dusky Bay 

 specimens of Forster's plant, but Colenso's agrees well with 

 Forster's figure in the British Museum " (loc. cit.). And in my 

 fully describing this northern species of Cordylinc I have 

 also, with very great pleasure, named it in honour of our well- 

 known scientific naturalist, Sir James Hector, K.C.M.G., 

 M.D., F.R.S., &c, who had not only seen both species grow- 

 ing in their native habitats in his travels in the North and 

 South Islands of New Zealand, but had at an early date 

 (prior to 1864) called Sir Joseph Hooker's particular attention 

 to their specific differences. 



III. From time to time of late years I have made several 

 endeavours to obtain botb flowering and fruiting specimens of 

 our northern subalpine Cordylinc, but have always failed until 

 this present year (1892), when, through Mr. Hallett's kindness 

 and care, I obtained what I had so long sought ; I having long 

 known him, and he being a resident settler far away in the 

 hilly interior, and pretty near the home of these plants, and 

 well acquainted with them. To him I feel much indebted for 

 the several packages of specimens in various states he so 

 readily obtained and sent me, though at no small trouble and 

 labour to himself, as well as for his interesting notes and 

 letters concerning the plant. And, not being satisfied with 

 the specific description of C. indivisa as given by Hooker, 

 both in his "Flora Novae-Zelandiae " and in the Handbook, 

 and not possessing the fifth volume of Kunth's " Enumeration" 

 (though I have vols. 1-4), and finding, on inquiry, the said 

 fifth volume was not here in the colony, I got a kind naturalist 

 friend to write to Berlin to get a verbatim copy made from 

 Kunth's work, and this I received a few months back, which 

 with me settled the question concerning the specific differences 

 of the two plants. 



IV. In conclusion, I may observe that several striking 

 prima facie characters in this species here described do not 

 accord with those of C. indivisa (vera), Kunth : e.g., Sir James 

 Hector mentions its "long elegant flowers " (loc. cit.}, and Sir 

 Joseph Hooker also calls them " the large flowers," with " its 

 excessively thick and coriaceous leaves" (Handbook, p. 282), 

 which leaves, however, are really smaller, as described by 

 Kunth, who says of them, " 2-4 pedes longa, medio 4-5 polli- 

 caris, supra basin li-2 poll, lata, rigide, coriacea " ; and, further, 



