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REPLY TO QUERY. (To the Editor.) Sir,—ln reply to a query from Mr E. James as to the name of the tree he described in his letter to the “Guardian.” It is called “Neinei” by the Maoris and “Dracophyllum Traversi” by the botanists. Tt is not nearly as rare as Mr .Tames thinks being found among the subalpine growth throughout the whole of Westland. Dr Cockayne in his hook “New Zealand Plants and their Story,” states, “Dracophyllum Traversi is a magnificent small tree with smooth naked brown stems, and each stem crowned at its extremity with a rosette of stiff reddish leaves, having long drawn out points arching downwards. It occurs both in the suh-alpine scrub of Westland and in.the uppermost belts of tho sub-alpine forest. Anyone journeying over Arthur’s Pass can hardly fail to observe this truly remarkable tree.” I am, etc., H. OSMERS. Ross ; September 24tb ; 1928,
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 1
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