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broad, oblong, obtuse ; rbachis and main branchlets stout, angled and 

 channelled, glabrous, dark green, length of flowering stem below the 

 flowers 5 inches, and 2^ 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 6^- 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 3 together at lowest angle of junction 

 of branchlet, 1 on each side and 1 above. Flowers, short pedicels, and very 

 small floral bracteoles Avholly 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 descrip- 

 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 0. australis, and are, also, not 



