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Title: Plants of New Zealand
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Laing, R. M. (Robert Malcolm), b. 1865 Blackwell, E. W. (Ellen W.)
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: Christchurch : Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd.
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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erries are oval, pointed at the end, and ofa brilliant scarlet. The wiry stems are so strong, that theymay be used as cords v^dthout fear of breaking. Rope-laddershave been made from them, for the purpose of climbing thesteep cliffs which shut in the AVanganui River. They areused also in basket-work. In the Chatham Islands, we hearof native huts built of fern-posts, lashed together with supple-jacks, and thatched with toi grass ; also of rafts formed ofthe flower stalks of Plwrmium Tenax, spliced with supple-jacks. The roots of the Bhipogonum are used by bushmen as amedicine, and the plant is sometimes called Bush Sarsa-parilla. The native name is Kare-ao, which is plausiblyinterpreted to mean a ticisting rope. Fl. Dec.-Feb. Genus Luzuriaga. Small, creeping, glabrous herbs, with stems knotted at the joints. Leaveswith netted venation, alternate. Flowers regular. Perianth of 6 leaflets.Fruit a berry. A genus of two species, one in South America and one in NewZealand. THE LILY FAMILY 91
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Fig. 20. Spray of Supple-jack (i nat. size), 92 PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND Luzuriaga marginata (TJie Marginate Luzuriaga). A pretty little iilant, found chiefly in hilly districts. Leaves shining, fin.in length. Petioles twisted. Flower terminal, white, fin. long. Berry round.Both islands. Fl. Dec. and Jan. (The plant appears under the synonjinCallixene parviflora in Hookers Handbook and as Enargea marginata inCheeseman). Genus Cordyline. A genus found in New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. The fiveNew Zealand species are all endemic. Herbs or trees. Leaves crowded, andsword-like. Flowers regular, bell-shaped, white. Stamens inserted on thepetals. Berry whitish, containiiig angular, black seeds. (Name from the Greeksignifying a club). 5. sp. Cordyline belongs to the sub-family Draccsnoideae, and istherefore related to the dragon-trees. Dragons blood is theresin which exudes from the bark of Draccena Draco. A veryfamous specimen of this tree existed on the island of Teneriffe.I

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