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broad, oblong, obtuse; rhachis and main branchlets stout, angled and 
channelled, glabrous, dark green, length of flowering stem below the 
flowers 5 inches, and 24 inches in circumference, triquetrous, flat on top, 
sub-succulent not woody; sub-panicles rather distant on rhachis, not 
crowded, erect, alternate, disposed in a tristichous manner, each 6-9 
inches long, axial branchlet always much the longest; bracts at bases of 
sub-panicles foliaceous, lowest 64 inches long, 1 inch broad at the middle, 
ovate-acuminate, acute ; bracteoles within bract at base of branchlet, short, 
broadly deltoid, acute, extending and sub-clasping around the base, closely 
including the 2-3 flowers there. Flowers numerous throughout on all the 
branches but not crowded, generally 8 together at lowest angle of junction 
of branchlet, 1 on each side and 1 above. Flowers, short pedicels, and very 
small floral bracteoles wholly white ; pedicels bi-bracteolate ; bracteoles very 
small, nerveless, less than a line long, the lower one deltoid acute, the 
upper somewhat cup-shaped and surrounding the pedicel on three sides, 
the margin irregular mostly with two small teeth or points. Perianth with 
a very slight greenish tinge on the outside before unfolding, 5 lines dia- 
meter, stellate; segments nearly equal, thickish, linear, obtuse, scarcely 2 
lines long; sepals recurved ; anthers linear, obtuse, small; filaments stout 
flat, linear, acute ; style stoutish, cylindrical, slightly flexuose; stigma trifid ; 
flowers fragrant. Fruit (ripe, of last year) reddish, glabrous, shining, bear- 
ing the persistent remains of the perianth, sub-globose, depressed at top, 
tri-lobed, 3 lines in diameter, each cell containing several (4-6) black, 
glossy, sub-reniform, sharply-angled and closely-packed seeds. 
Hab. Forests, in the mountainous interior, near Lake Waikare, North 
Island. 
Obs.—This fine new species of Cordyline, I may say, I have long known ; 
and I ought to have described and published it before, having had ample 
living specimens, both flowering and fruiting, at command, in the nurseries 
of Mr. Sturm, at Clive, who, many years ago, brought the seeds of it from 
the mountain forests, and from them raised the plants in his gardens, where 
they have attained to a great height, if not to their full size. This deserip- 
tion is mainly drawn up from plants of his own raising, aided by a young 
one of a few years old in my own garden, for the apices, etc., of the leaves, 
which in the larger plants are very rarely unbroken and torn. It is very 
distinct from any of our described New Zealand species of this genus, also 
from all other (known) published ones. A flowering panicle presents a fine 
sight, from the thick, solid, firm, and waxy appearance of its numerous 
white flowers, pedicels, and floral bracts, heightened by the dark-green 
back-ground of their stout glabrous branches. The leaves of this plant are 
very much broader and thinner than those of C. australis, and are, also, not 
