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various parts of the Otago province, where it is common. Its average height 
is 20-30 ft. and the trunk 10-18 in. diameter, though sometimes reaching 
3 ft. diameter; it branches repeatedly and soon decays. The leaves form 
large tufts at the ends of the branches, amongst which the dense terminal 
panicles form conspicuous white drooping masses as large as the human head. 
The plants vary much in amount of branching, appear to grow rapidly, often 
root from the side of the trunk when this is inclined or prostrate, and are 
with difficulty extirpated. — Whether this is the same as the Bay of Islands 
plant, which, I think, has an erect loose panicle, is doubtful. 
As this sheet was going to press, I received the following very full and 
valuable communication regarding the Cordylines from Dr. Hector, F.B..S. 
“ There are, I believe, 7 distinct Cordylines in the island. 
“ 1. C. australis. Ti-rahau. 
“ 2. C. Banksii. Ti Ngahere. 
“3. C. Pumilio. Ti-rauriki. Sessile; blue flowers. 
“4. C. stricta? Ti-parae. Leaves rigid, with fine serratures on the 
margin. Stem about 1 in. diameter and 7—9 long, droops, and throws off 
heads irregularly. Flowers and berries white, but in a sparse scape like 
C. Pumilio .” (This seems to agree with C. Banksii.— J. H .) 
“ 5. C. indivisa. This is the broad-leaved deep-green Ti, with red veins, 
a single head, and long elegant flowers, that Forster found in Dusky Bay. The 
leaf has a slight resemblance to the true Toil of Colenso, which has led to the 
confusion no doubt. 
“6. C. sp.? Toii. A large tree with many heads and huge broad mas- 
sive leaves, yellowish with yellow and red veins and ponderous inflorescence 
with long bracts and black shiny seeds. This is the Ti that the natives use 
for mats, etc. The portion of the description of the ‘ Handbook ’ which refers 
to C. indivisa, and which you got from Colenso, applies to this plant.” (I 
have no Dusky Bay specimens of Forster’s plant, but Colenso’s agrees well 
with Forster’s figure in the British Museum. — J.H.) 
“7. C. sp. ? Ti-tawhiti. The Ti which is cultivated by the natives in the 
Upper Whanganui district ; it has a long dark-green flexible leaf and thick 
flexible pulpy stem, which they propagate by layers. It grows rapidly. I 
have seen young plants only of this, and do not feel so certain of it as of the 
others.” 
281. C. indivisa. — Common in Bligh’s Sound, Hector and Buchanan. 
282. C. Pumilio. — In last line of description, for bracts read pedicel. 
283. Dianella intermedia. — I have seen no specimens from the south of 
Nelson Province. 
283. ASTELIA. — Mr. Kirk, of Auckland, sends me the following valuable 
notes on this genus, but, not being in all cases accompanied with specimens, 
I am not positive of the identifications. 
“ 1. A. Cunninghamii. Berries fine purple, black, handsome. Flowers 
March, April (before A. Banksii) ; fruit January-March. 
“ 2. A. sp. Leaves 1-9 ft. long, margins flat, 2-4f in. broad, erect. 
Female scape 6-20 in. high, stout, 1| in. diameter. Flower dark-green. 
