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LXXXI. AMARYLLIDE^.

701 Hypoxis pusilla. — New Zealand specimens are usually much smaller than Australian, and in most of the localities it is rare for the scape to have more than one flower.

LXXXII. LILIACE-ffi.

704 Cordyline. — C. tiiha, Hueg. ex Kunth. Enum. pi. v. 34, is often quoted as a native of New Zealand, but is really a garden-plant of unknown origin. Mr. Baker remarks that it is intermediate between the widely diffused G. terminalis and the Australian C. stricta, Endl. I know nothing of C. Hooi- brenkeana, Goepp, in Nov. Act. Cur. xxv. (1855) 55, also said to come from New Zealand.

708 Astelia. — I have failed to identify the following species described by Mr. Colenso : A. spicata, Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1882) 335; A. subrigida, I.e. xix. (1887) 268; and A. planifolia, I.e. XX. (1888) 209.

711 A. Banksii. — Mr. Townson sends specimens of apparently this species from the vicinity of Westport.

712 A. trinervia and A. Solandri. — Both of these have also been collected at Westport by Mr. Townson.

716 Phormiuin Cookianum. — Bishop Williams has described and figured a remarkable sport of this species in which the flowers are replaced by tufts of foliage leaves, the scapes thus bearing numerous dense clumps of leaves which sometimes reach the length of 12 in. to 18 in. For a detailed account see his paper in Trans. N.Z. Inst, xxxvi. 333.

LXXXV. PANDANE-ffi.

741 Freycinetia Banksii. — Forms the chief component of the vegetation on the Open Bay Islands, off the coast of South Westland, Dr. Cockayne. (See Trans. N.Z. Inst, xxxvii. 368.)

LXXXVI. TYPHACEiE.

744 Sparganium antipodum. — Swamps near Methven, Can- terbury, Dr. Gaze !