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Cordyline.] and repeatedly branched; branches spreading, with long lanceolate bracts at the base. Flowers ¼–⅓ in. diam., crowded, white, sweet-scented, very shortly pedicelled; bracteoles 3, ovate-deltoid. Perianth-segments linear-oblong, obtuse, recurved. Stamens almost equalling the segments; anthers oblong. Style subulate; stigma 3-cuspidate. Berry white or bluish-white, globose, ¼ in. diam. Seeds 1–3 in each cell, black, angled.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 281; Bot. Mag. t. 5636 (not t. 2835); Kirk, Forest Fl.'' t. 141. C. superbiens, C. Koch, Wochen. (1859) 381. C. indivisa, Regel, Gartenfl. (1859) 331 (not of Steud.). C. lentiginosa, ''Linden and Andre, Illustr. Hort.'' xvii. (1870) t. 35. C. Veitchii, Regel, Gartenfl. (1871) 149. C. calocoma, ''Hort. ex Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc.'' xiv. (1875) 542. C. Forsteri, ''F. Muell. Select Pl. ''58. C. Sturmii, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. (1883) 331. Dracæna australis, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 151; A. Rich. ''Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 149. Dracænopsis australis, ''Planch. in Fl. des Serves'' (1850–51) sub. t. 569.

4. C. indivisa, Steud. Nom. ed. ii., i. 419.—Stem stout, erect, rarely branched, 5–25 ft. high. Leaves very numerous, spreading all round and forming an enormous massive head, 2–6 ft. long, 4–6 in. broad at the middle, broadly ensiform, acuminate, usually contracted below and again expanded at the sheathing base, excessively thick and coriaceous, flat, greenish with a faint purplish or reddish tint above, glaucous beneath, midrib very thick and prominent at the base, but gradually decreasing in size upwards, lateral veins very numerous, strong, parallel, oblique to the midrib and with it usually coloured red or reddish-yellow. Panicle very large, densely branched, pendulous, 2–4 ft. long including the stout peduncle; bracts at the base broad, massive, the lower ones usually exceeding the panicle; branches very close-set, divided at the base, simple above, 1 in. across with the flowers on. Flowers shortly pedicelled, densely crowded, ⅓ in. long, white; bracteoles of the lower flowers sometimes equalling them, of the upper ones minute. Perianth-tube campanulate; segments sharply recurved. Anthers broadly oblong. Berry ¼ in. diam., globose, bluish. Seeds 5–6 in each cell, angled; testa black, shining.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 258; Gard. Chron. (1860) 792; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 282. C. Hookeri,