Cordyline kaspar n.sp. Three Kings Is, /f FT 
Records Auck. inst.& Museum. Vol.4.n0.6.0ct.56, 
310 LILIACEAE. [Cordyline. 
A. Leaves contracted into a long and narrow canaliculate petiole. 
- Leaves 1-24 ft., broadly oblanceolate or narrow-oblong; lateral 
veins fine. Panicle 1-2‘ft.; branches simple, spreading. 
Flowers lilac .. =} ei + oi: .. 1. C. terminalis. 
Leaves 3-6 ft., linear-lanceolate ; lateral veins strong, prominent. 
Panicle 2-5 ft., much branched. Flowers white .. .. 2oC. Banks. 
RB. Leaves sessile, ensiform, not contracted into a conspicuous petiole. 
Stem 15-40 ft. Leaves 14-3 ft. x 14-24 in., rather thin ; lateral 
veins fine, green 
os - i A .. & CO. australis. 
Stem 5-20 ft. Leaves 2-6 ft. x 4-61i., excessively thick and 
coriaceous ; lateral veins coarse, conspicuous, red or yellow .. 4. C. indivisa. 
Stem wanting or very short. Leaves 1-3 ft. x 1-2 in., narrow- 
linear se s¢ .e @ : *e es. Cm ee . on pumulio. = 
E71 ©. terminalis Kunth in Abh. Acad. Berl. (1820) 30.—Stem slender, 
3-8 ft. high. Leaves numerous, crowded, 1-24 ft. long, 2-5 in. broad, 
broadly oblanceolate or almost oblong, acute or acuminate, gradually 
narrowed into a long petiole, thinly coriaceous, pale-green, midrib distinct 
beneath but obscure above ; lateral veins numerous, fine, distinct, oblique ; 
petiole 2-6 in. long, deeply canaliculated above, obtusely keeled beneath, 
dilated and sheathing at the base. Panicle 1-2 ft. long, broad, laxly 
branched; branches spreading, the lower ones again divided. Flowers 
solitary or 2-3 together along the branches of the panicle, sessile or very 
shortly pedicelled, 3 in. long, lilac; bracteoles 3, small, deltoid. Perianth- 
segments equal, longer than the tube. Stamens not exceeding the seg- 
ments. Berry globose, 4in. diam.—Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 21; 
Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx (1888) 174; Man. N.Z. FI. (1906) 706. 
C. Cheesemanii 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1896) 508. 
KERMADEC ISLANDS: Lower portions of Sunday Island, not common, Bae 
Norra Istanp: Formerly cultivated by the Maoris in the Bay of Islands and other 
northern districts, now nearly extinct. Ti-pore. July—Septem ber. 
A most abundant plant throughout Polynesia, and stretching northwards through 
Queensland and New Guinea to Malaya and India. T have examined the specimens, 
cultivated in Mr. Reid’s garden at Ahipara, upon which Mr. Kirk founded his 
CG. Cheesemanit. They differ in no respect from the common Polynesian form of 
C. terminalis, and as they were found in an abandoned Maori cultivation they can only 
be looked upon as survivors from a period when the species was grown by the Maoris 
for food purposes. Archdeacon Walsh (Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiil (1901) 201) mentions 
other instances of C. terminalis having been found in old Macri cultivations, and argues 
with much probability that the plant was originally introduced by the Maoris on their 
first colonization of New Zealand. 
2. CO. Banksii Hook. f. in Gard. Chron, (1860) 792. —Stems slender, 
simple or sparingly branched, or several from the base forming large 
clumps, 4-10 ft. high. Leaves numerous, very long, erect below, drooping 
towards the tips, 3-6 ft. or even more, 1}-3} in. broad at the middle, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually contracted into a petiole 1-2 it. 
long, striate and obliquely many-nerved, 4-8 of the nerves on each side 
of the midrib stronger than the rest and either green or red or yellowish ; 
midrib stout, flat above, prominent and rounded beneath; petiole deeply 
channelled above, rounded beneath. Panicles one or several to each stem, 
suberect or drooping, very large and lax, much and diffusely branched, 
9-5 ft. long. Flowers longer and narrower than in CO. australis, and not 
so closely placed, nearly 4 in. long, white, sessile or nearly so ; bracteoles 
very small. Berry globose, § in. diam., white. Seeds 2-3 in each cell.— 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 282; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fi. (1906) 706. 
