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Vll. LILIACEAi. 
\_Cordyline. 
not Endlicher. Trunk arboreous, 10-40 ft. high, branched. Leaves ensiform, 
2 ft. long - , 1 j- 1J in. broad, slightly contracted above the broad base, striated 
with numerous parallel veins, all equally fine, midrib obscure. Flowers densely 
crowded, white, ^ in. diam., sweet-scented ; bracts from half as long to as 
long as the bud before expansion.— Dracaena australis , Forst. Prod. 151. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc, apparently common through- 
out. There are no specimens of this in the Banksian or Paris Herbariums from Forster 
himself, but his drawing identifies the plaut; it is distinguished from C. Banksii by tbe 
shorter leaves not contracted at the base, without strong nerves, and by the large bracts. The 
Dracaena australis of Bot. Mag. has the short flowers of this species, but the minute bracts 
of the following, but differs from both in the much broader leaves. I find the same plaut 
from Norfolk Island, whence I suspect Frazer procured it, and not from New Zealand. 
2. C. Banksii, Hook.f. in Gard. Chron. 1860, 792. Trunk arboreous, 
5-10 ft. high, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves very long, 5-6 ft. long 
by If— 2 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, gradually contracted into a petiole 1-2 
ft. long, striated, and having 6 or 8 evident uerves on either side of the pro- 
minent midrib. Panicle lateral, drooping, 2-5 ft. long. Flowers white, 
longer than in C. australis, f in. long, nearly sessile. Bracts small, not f 
part as long as the flowers previous to expansion. Berry white. 
Northern and BSiddle Islauds : Port Nicholson and Ruahiue mouutaius, Colenso ; Can- 
terbury, Tracers, etc. There is a small spccimeu of this in the British Museum, collected 
by Bauks and Solander, but uot alluded to in their MSS. nor drawings ; it differs from C. 
australis in the shorter truuk, much longer, narrower, petioled leaves, with evident strong 
veins, the minute bracts, and longer in the flowers, and (aecordiug to Colenso) in the 
drooping lateral panicle. 
3. C. indivisa, Kunth ; — FI. N. Z. i. 258. Trunk simple, arboreous, 
2-5 'ft. high. Leaves excessively thick and coriaceous, 2-3 ft. long, 4-5 in. 
broad, scarcely contracted at the base, glaucous below ; nerves numerous, yel- 
lowish, strong, midrib stout. Panicle very large, drooping. Flowers pedicelled, 
f-1 in. diam., most densely crowded, imbricate. Bracts nearly as long as 
the flower and pedicel. — Fraccena indivisa, Forst. Prod. n. 150; Plant. Esc. 
li. 33. 
Northern Island : Ruahine range, Colenso. Middle Island : Thompson’s Sound, Lgall ; 
"Dusky Bay, Forster. A magnificeut plant, well distiuguished by the broad, excessively thick 
leaves, glaucous below, and huge drooping panicle, covered with the large flowers. Flax 
from its leaves is used by the natives of the Northern Island to make a garment called Toil 
(i Colenso ). 
4. C. Pumilio, Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1860, 792. — C. stricta, FI. 
N. Z. i. 257. t. 58, uot Endlicher. A small plant. Stem 0 or short, 
slender, not thicker than the thumb. Leaves 1-2 ft. long, f— §• in. broad, 
linear, grass-like, nerves few, midrib stout, prominent. Panicle erect, very 
lax, 2 ft. long, branches spreading, slender. Flowers few, scattered, pedi- 
celled, white, -i-in. diam. ; bracts subulate, half as long as the flower and twice 
as long as the bracts. 
Northern parts of the Northern Island: Bay of Islands, A. Cunningham. A very dif- 
ferent-looking species from all tbe preceding. The C. stricta of Endlicher ( Dractena stricta , 
Bot. Mag. t. 2575; Bot. Reg. t. 965), is an arboreous species, with bluish flowers. The 
present was regarded by A. Cunningham as a young plant of C. australis. 
