140 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



1,200 Ibs., though more than double may be got under particularly 

 favorable circumstances. The fibre is not so strong as hemp, but 

 very easily prepared. It will not endure long exposure to water. 

 The foliage can be used as spinage. The seeds will keep for several 

 years. The allied Corchorus trilocularis (Linne), of Indian origin, 

 is likewise wild in eastern tropical and sub-tropical Australia ; its 

 fibre may be used for ropes. 



Cordyline Banksii, J. Hooker. 



New Zealand. This lax- and long-leaved Palm-Lily attains a 

 height of 10 feet ; its stem is usually undivided. This and the 

 following species have been admitted into this list for a double 

 reason, not only because they are by far the hardiest, quickest 

 growing and largest of the genus, and thus most sought in horti- 

 cultural trade for scenic planting, but also because their leaves 

 furnish a fair fibre for textile purposes. The small seeds are pro- 

 duced in great abundance, and germinate with extreme readiness. 

 The same may be said of the three following species ; their seeds 

 can with the greatest ease be sent to the remotest distances. These 

 Palm-Lilies ought to be naturalised copiously in forest-ranges by 

 mere dissemination. 



Cordyline Baueri, J. Hooker. (G. Australis, Endlicher non J. Hooker.) 



Norfolk-Island. The stem of this stately species attains a height 

 of 40 feet, and becomes ramified in age. It is very intimately allied 

 to the following. 



Cordyline indivisa, Kunth. 



New Zealand. The stem of this thick- and rigid-leaved palm-like 

 species rises to a height of 20 feet, and remains undivided. Leaves 

 finally 5 inches broad ; yields the toi-fibre. Aged leaves persistent 

 in a perfectly downward position for many years. Panicle at first 

 erect. Berries white. Grows without protection in Arran [Capt. 

 Brown]. 



Cordyline SUperbiens, C. Koch. (O. Australis, J. Hooker non Endlicher). 



New Zealand. The stem of this noble thin-leaved plant attains 

 a height of 40, exceptionally even 50 feet, according to Professor T. 

 Kirk ; the basal stem circumference sometimes 20 feet [Colenso] ; 

 it is branched. Aged leaves readily seceding ; berries blue. Hardy 

 at Torquay [W. Wood] Power's Court, Limerickj and in others of the 

 milder localities of South-England and Ireland, also in the Island of 

 Arran, where it grows luxuriously and flowers. If in excessively 

 severe winters the plant gets destroyed above ground, it will break 

 out again from the root [Rev. D. Landsborough]. Matured seeds at 

 Campbelltown, Argyllshire, in the open air also in Yorkshire. As 

 these tall Cordylines ripen seeds so copiously, the latter might easily 



