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Flowers few, in short terminal panicles, or solitary with an opposite leaf ; 
peduncles and pedicels pubescent; bracts narrow, entire ; sepals tapering to a 
long narrow point, soon reflected, 3 lines long, pubescent on both sides, and 
ciliate. Petals white, shorter than the calyx. Fruit oblong, tapering, the 
length equal to one and a half times the breadth, succulent. Carpels numerous, 
angled, with a long persistent style. 
Collected by Dr. Hector on the “ Paddock,” Lake Brunner, West Coast of 
the South Island, December, 1873, where it is found growing close to the 
ground, and covering large patches. The fruit has been made into preserves, 
and is also eaten by birds, 
This diminutive Rubus differs from all the varieties of Rubus australis 
found in New Zealand in its habit of growth and alternate simple leaves, and . 
might, from its delicious fruit, be worthy of culture. 
Plate XXIL, fig. 2—Female plant with imperfect fruit; fig. 3—Male 
plant in flower. 
Senecio hectori, Buchanan. Trans, N.Z. Inst, V., 348. 
Plants brought by Dr. Hector from the native locality of this striking 
species have succeeded well in the Colonial Botanic Garden at Wellington, and 
have attained a height of 3 feet, but, as yet, show no sign of flowering. 
The accompanying illustration of this plant (Pl. XXIIL) is from fresh 
specimens received, through the kindness of Mr. McGregor, from the Upper 
Buller Valley. 
Авт. XLI.—Jotice of an Undescribed Species of Cordyline, 
By T. King, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Auckland Institute, 8th December, 1873.] 
WirH the Dracena indivisa discovered in Dusky Bay, by Forster, another 
form has hitherto been confused—the Toii of the North Island—a plant which, 
even from the scanty information we at present possess, appears to differ 
widely from the Cordyline indivisa of the Handbook, the description of which 
was chiefly drawn from the South Island specimens collected by Forster, and 
to which the North Island specimens, sent to Kew by Colenso, were referred 
by Dr. Hooker. In order to attract the attention of botanists to the North 
Island plant, I purpose offering a brief diagnosis drawn from the scanty material 
already collected, under the provisional name of Cordyline hookeri, in the hope 
of being thereby enabled to procure data for a complete description at some 
future time. 
