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ever, only a single corolla may be found on each stem at one 

 time ; no doubt owing to the extreme shortness of its tube, 

 which causes it to fall quickly off on the enlargement of its 

 ovary. 



Class II. MONOCOTYLEDONS. 



Order VII. Liliace^:. 



Genus 3. Cordyline, Commerson. 



1. C. hectori, sp. nov. 



Trunk arboreous, simple, erect, from 6ft. to 30ft. high. 

 Leaves numerous erect and spreading all round, linear- 

 lanceolate, 4ft. lOin. long, 6^in. wide at middle, gradually 

 contracted to 4in. wide at 7in. above base, and again expand- 

 ing to 5-|in. at base, acute not acuminate, rather thin for 

 size (chartaceous), somewhat softish (not harsh, as in Phor- 

 mium and in G. australis), but very thick at base, closely 

 striated, margins entire, red thin and slightly recurved, 

 glabrous, greenish- purple above with a reddish hue, and glau- 

 cous below with red veins ; veins very numerous, above 100 on 

 either side of midrib, parallel, slightly and regularly diagonal, 

 extending nearly the whole length of lamina, and of three 

 kinds — viz., (1) stout red prominent shining, distant about 

 Jin. from each other; (2) smaller and finer, intermediate and 

 reddish ; (3) obsolete again intermediate and glaucous ; the 

 midrib red glabrous and glossy, very stout and large at base 

 and for some distance above, but decreasing regularly towards 

 apex and there vanishing, striate-veined on the under-surface 

 for two-thirds length from base. Panicle pendulous, obovate, 

 thick compressed, 16in. long and 17in. girth over all ; peduncle 

 (or main stem) 4m. long," thick 3fin. girth; subpanicles 

 (simple racemes) numerous, straight, obfastigiate, imbricate, 

 each 7in. long, linear-acuminate, 2fin. girth, a single bract at 

 base If in. long, 4 lines wide at base, many-nerved, subulate, 

 acuminate, acute. Flowers very numerous and close together ; 

 pedicels stoutish, thickened at top, 2 lines long, with 2 

 bracteoles on each, the outer one the longer, 3 lines long, 

 sub-linear-ovate, 1-nerved, tip subacute, the inner one broader, 

 irregularly shaped, semi-amplexicaul, apex sometimes refuse, 

 and 2-3-fid, acute, acuminate, very membranous. Perianth 

 small, sub -J-in. diameter ; segments narrow-oblong, split to 

 base, subequal, much recurved, 3-nerved, nerves prominent. 

 Stamens broad and flat at bases, adhering to lobes one-third of 

 length from base, shorter than style, slightly incurved over 

 ovary ; anthers linear-elliptic. Style sub 2 lines long, stout, 

 grooved. Berry globose nearly 2 lines diameter, glabrous, 



* But I have not got the whole of it, only that portion which forms 

 part of the panicle, and where the pedicels with flowers hegin. 



