Walsh. — On the Occurrence of Cordyline terminalis. 301 



not yet sufficiently examined ; and a species of Cystophora 

 which may be new. 



I have deposited specimens of most of the above in the 

 Canterbury Museum. 



Addendum. 



4th May, 1901. 

 The following additional species appear in " Meeres Algen 

 von den Norfolk Inseln," by Major Th. Eeinbold (Nuovo 

 Notarisia, series xi., October, 1900) : — 



31. Sargassum godeffroyi, Grun., Alg. Fidji-Tonga-Sainoa, 



i., p. 4. 



32. Sargassum leptopodum, J. Ag., Spec. Sarg. Austr., 



p. 115, t. 30. (Determination not quite certain.) 



33. Sargassum stenophyllum, J. Ag., Spec. Sarg. Austr., 



p. 104, t. 29. 



34. Griffithsia thyrsigera, Harv., Trans. Irish Acad., 



vol. 22, n. 291. 



35. Corallina cuvieri, Lmx., J. Ag., Spec, ii., p. 572. 



Art. XXXI. — On the Occurrence of Cordyline terminalis in 



New Zealand. 



By the Eev. Canon Walsh. 



[Read before the Auckland Institute, 9th July, 1900.] 



About twelve or fourteen years ago the late Miss M. A. 

 Clarke, of Waimate North, showed me two specimens of a 

 Cordyline which I had never seen before, and which she had 

 growing at " Grove Cottage." She informed me that she 

 had found them in a long-deserted native cultivation in the 

 neighbourhood, and that they were specimens of a ti (Cordy- 

 line) which the Maoris had in former times been in the habit 

 of cultivating for food, bat which of late years had fallen into 

 disuse and practically disappeared from the district. Of the 

 two specimens she kindly gave me one, which I planted in my 

 garden, and on her death, which occurred not long after, 

 I took charge of the other. Both of these, though removed 

 more than once to make room for encroaching vegetation, are 

 now in a flourishing condition, and one of them has made 

 very strong growth. 



Although the plant was evidently a rare one, I had no idea 

 that the specimens were almost the last survivals of a variety 

 that is practically extinct so far as New Zealand is concerned, 



