Enargea. | | LILIACEAE. 309 
In addition to the New Zealand species are two others from Chile. J agree with 
the late Baron Mueller (‘‘ Victorian Naturalist,’ December, 1886) in considering that 
Enargea should take precedence over both Callivene and Luzuriaga. Hnargea was 
published by Gaertner from Solander’s notes in 1788, whereas Callizene did not appear 
until 1789, and Luzuriaga in 1802. Hnargea appears to have been rejected on account 
of an error in Gaertner’s plate, but that does not seem to he a sufficient reason for 
setting aside the name. 
— ( pes 
1, parviflora Shottsberg an Plant World, xvii (1915) 133.— Stems 
slender, branched, wiry, flexuous, creeping at the base, 4-12in. long or 
more. Leaves alternate, sessile. or very shortly petioled, $—1} in. long, 
linear-oblong to oblong, mucronate, pale-green, rather rigid, coriaceous, 
margins perfectly smooth, longitudinally 5-7-nerved; transverse veinlets 
few; all veinlets conspicuous on both surfaces. Flowers solitary, terminal 
or in the upper axils, white, 4-2 in. diam.; pedicels short, slender, erect. 
Perianth-segments subequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Stamens not 4 
the length of the segments; filaments glabrous. Berry globose, 4 in. 
diam., white-—E. marginata Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 704 (not of 
Banks and Sol.), Callixene parviflora Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 254 ; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 281. C. melalantha Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii 
(1885) 250. Luzuriaga parviflora Kunth Enum. Pl. v (1850) 281. LL. mar- 
ginata Cheesem. Ill. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 201 (not of Benth.). 5 
NorTH AND SoutH Is~tanps, Stewart Istanp: Mountain forests from Cape 
Colville and the Thames goldfields southwards, not uncommon. Sea-level to 3500 ft. 
Puwatawata. November—February. 
In the first edition of this work I followed Bentham in uniting the New Zealand 
species with the Fuegian and Falkland Islands £. marginata. But Dr. Skottsberg, 
- who has recently made a comparison between the two, finds that H. marginaia has 
flowers twice as large, and the veins of the leaves are obsolete and their margins 
scabrous; whereas the New Zealand plant, in addition to the much smaller flowers, 
has the leaf-margins smooth, and their veins evident. He has consequently revived 
Hooker’s name of FH. parviflora for our plant. 
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3. CORDYLINE Cori ty Sao we een, MIRY- wD 
Trees or shrubs; trunk long or short, sometimes almost wantingmse.. 
Leaves crowded at the top of the stem or its branches, more rarely “*~~ 
alternate along the stem, sessile or petioled, very long, coriaceous; veins 
parallel, more or less oblique to the midrib. Flowers hermaphrodite, in 
terminal much-branched panicles, solitary or fascicled along the branches, 
shortly pedicellate or almost sessile. Perianth narrow-campanulate or 
cylindric, 6-partite ; segments narrow, all equal or the 3 inner rather longer. 
Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the segments, shorter or longer than 
them; filaments filiform or flattened ; anthers narrow-oblong, dorsifixed. 
Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform; stigma capitate or shortly 3-lobed; ovules 
numerous (4-16) in each cell. Berry globose, 3-celled, at first more 
or less succulent, but often dry when the seeds are fully ripe. Seeds few 
or many in each cell, sometimes solitary by abortion, usually curved ; 
testa black, shining. 
About 12 or 15 species are known, scattered through India, Malaya, Polynesia, 
and New Zealand, together with one species in South America. With the exception 
of the wide-ranging C. terminalis, all the species found in New Zealand are endemic. 
