. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . permum scrub near Cowes, Waiheke Island;/. H. Harvey! Corysanthes oblonga. Mr. R. H. Matthews, of Kaitaia, sends a curious varietywith the flowers entirely green, showing no sign of red what-ever. LXXXII. LlLIACEiE. Cordyline indivisa. Summit of Mount London (Kohukohunui), between theSouthern Wairoa and the Firth of the Thames, altitude2,000 fc. , E. Phillipps Turner. The most northerly bcalityrecorded. LXXXIV. Palm^ sapida. In the Manual I have alluded to the fact that branchedspecimens of the nikau palm are occasionally seen
. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . permum scrub near Cowes, Waiheke Island;/. H. Harvey! Corysanthes oblonga. Mr. R. H. Matthews, of Kaitaia, sends a curious varietywith the flowers entirely green, showing no sign of red what-ever. LXXXII. LlLIACEiE. Cordyline indivisa. Summit of Mount London (Kohukohunui), between theSouthern Wairoa and the Firth of the Thames, altitude2,000 fc. , E. Phillipps Turner. The most northerly bcalityrecorded. LXXXIV. Palm^ sapida. In the Manual I have alluded to the fact that branchedspecimens of the nikau palm are occasionally seen. One figured 448 Transactions. and described by Mr. Percy Smith (Trans. Inst., x, 357,t. 15) is well known to New Zealand botanists; and a photo-graph of a curious 6-branched specimen is given in Laing andBlackwells Plants of New Zealand (p. 89). I have^ nowto xecord two additional instances. The first was found abouteighteen years ago at Kaiwaka, North Auckland, by Mr. Mackenzie, of Waipu. From the accompanying sketch for- Ahoul- 30 warded to me by Mr. Percy Smith, to whom it was givenby Mr. Mackenzie, it will be seen that the main stem has beeninjured, causing the death of the terminal bud. The injuryhas evidently led to the production of a lateral branch on eachside, one of which has, by successive forking, produced threebranches, the other two. This specimen is interesting on ac-count of the proof which it affords that the branching was dueto some injury to the terminal bud. For my knowledge of thesecond instance, which is the most remarkable yet recorded,I am indebted to Mr. H. J. Matthews, the head of the ForestryDepartment. It was recently found in the State forest reserveat Puhipuhi, between Whangarei and the Bay of Islands. Itsheight is about 30 ft., and it possesses no fewer than seventeenbranches. The health and vigour of the tree is undiminished, Cheeseman.—Contributions to Flora. 449 and there is no sign of any previous injuiy. The excellentp
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