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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ugh the kindness of Mr. McGregor, from the UpperBuUer Yalley, Art, XLI.—Notice of an Undescrihed S2oecies of Cordyline.By T, Kirk, F,L,S.(Read before the Auckland Institute, 8th Deceniber, 1873.)With the DraccBna indivisa discovered in Dusky Bay, by Forster, anotherform has hitherto been confused—the Toii of the North Island—a plant which,even from the scanty information we at present possess, appears to differwidely from the Cordyline indivisa of the Handbook, the description of whichwas chiefly drawn from the South Island specimens collected by Forster, andto which the North Island specimens, sent to Kew by Colenso, were referredby Dr. Hooker. In order to attract the attention of botanists to the NorthIsland plant, I purpose offering a brief diagnosis drawn from the scanty materialalready collected, under the provisional name of Cordyline hookeri, in the hopeof being thereby enabled to procure data for a complete description at somefuture time. TRAN.S.N.Z.INSTITUTE.VOQlPLXXnr.
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dd. ei liih. SENECIO HEClORI.-a.s. jhcil. sizp^. Kirk.—On an undescribed Species of Cordyline. 245 At the outset, however, it is certain that neither G. indivisa of Dusky Bay,nor C. hooheri of the North Island^ exhibit uniformly simple stems, as statedin the Handbook; neither aie the leaves uniformly contracted at the base,either in young specimens or old. In these particulars both forms exhibit (sofar as is known) much the same amount of variation as C australis, C. banksii,or C. pumilio, and the same remark will apply, although possibly with lessforce, to the yellow or red colouration of the principal veins, a character uponwhich stress has been laid by writers. Cordyline hooheri, n. s. Stem arboreous, simple or branched, 2-18 feet high, massive. Leavesthick, excessively coriaceous, 2-5 feet long, ensiform, glaucous beneath, usuallymuch contracted immediately above the base, central vein not prominent.Panicle cylindrical, pendulous, 3 feet long or more, with immense bracts at theb

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