Cordyline—continued. 
с. o-rubra (black and тей). * 1. linear-lanceolate, dark brown, 
with bright rosy-crimson centres, the young foliage usually 
entirely of the latter showy colour. A fine variety, of bold 
erect growth. Stove. 
C. ornata (adorned).* l. small, recurved, oblong, 8in. long, дїп, 
broad, dark bronzy-green, marked with a narrow margin of rosy- 
pink, which is continued along the edge of the petioles ; petioles 
almost erect, 1873. Stove. 
с, пуу (purple-leaved). J. broadly ovate-oblong, 
of a fine deep bronzy hue, contrasting well with the glaucous tint 
of their under surfaces. Habit somewhat erect-growing. 1870. 
Stove. (I. H. 1872, 277.) 
©. ella (beautiful.* 1. nearly lin. wide, deeply bronze- 
nted, of a spreading-arching habit; the contracted petiole-like 
base being of a deep wine-red, which colour also marks the edges 
oftheleaves. 1870. Stove. 
C. pumilio (dwarf). Л 
1 - f. white; panicle very lax i 
long, with slender branches. l. very uate: mars: ott 
fes А aa sin. broad, with a stout prominent midrib, and a 
er veins ch si i А 
thick as the finger, or none. New Тек short, slender, as 
E е New Zealand, northern islands. 
Reali (Real i 
wt Stan 8 n aj ns даш. striped and edged with rose. 
A fini." l erect, broadly or oblong-lanceolate, about 1% 
1 r, flushed with rOSy-purple, freely 
with 4 hi > T ^ 
Purplish-rose, and the carmine-rose ; petioles margined with 
Stove. 
Same colour. 
clepeansoniana (Robinson’s). 1. long, lanceolate-acumi 
sienna — wine aour light green, variously striped 
* 
THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Cordyline—continued. 
C. rosacea (rose-coloured). l. gracefully recurving, oblong-acumi- 
nate, dark bronzy-green, broadly margined with bright pink; 
some of the young ones almost entirely of a light creamy-pink 
colour. 1872. A compact-habited dense-growing variety. Stove. 
C. rubella (reddish).  L, young ones variegated with bluish-rose. 
1872. Stove. 
C. Shepherdi (Shepherd's) A synonym of C. gloriosa. 
C. spectabilis (showy). l. broad oblong-acute, arching, narrow. 
ing and compressed at the base into a longish green stalk ; of a 
deep full green, slightly bronzed from being tinged beneath with 
reddish-purple. 1869. Ап erect free-growing plant. Stove. 
C. splendens (splendid).* /. dense, short, ovate-acute, about Qin, 
long, 4in. broad, arranged spirally; of a deep bronzy-green, 
breaking out in the young growth into bright rosy-carmine; the 
petioles and bases of the leaves are margined with the same 
E also ; nzy-green and brownish-cri : 
; @ Н. 1879, 22) Ped With brownish-crimson. 197. Stove 
colour. 1871. Stove. The colouring sometimes appears in 
Fic. 514. CORDYLINE MAGNIFICA, 
E 
stripes, and at others occupies the whole surface ; while? 
recurved character of the foliage gives the plant а flat, 
table-like head. . 
C. stricta (upright) Л. light blue, rather crowded. Ё r^ 
lanceolate or narrowly ensiform, contracted for some мау hy 
the bases, ljft. to 24ft. long, lin. to ljin. broad, with 
roughened margins; indistinct midrib striated with an. Y 
MOS nerves, Trunk slender, simple, 6ft. to 1 M ) 
foreton Bay. SYN. Draceena stricta, Greenhouse. (В. + 
C. s. congesta (crowded) differs from the type in having 
and more crowded foliage. See Fig. 515. iis 
C. sulcata (grooved). l. spreading, oblong, abrupt ег 
upper surface — Ma: ere с ^1 . v . undel 
vi obliquely transverse direction o e ? lish 
following the quely petioles purplish 
surface slightly streaked with blackish-purple ; 
1872. Stove. 
C. (terminal).* fl. sub-sessile, in branched рала 
i. petioled, lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, dark | 
