Plant growing from seed of Chordospartium stevensonii growing in garden of C.Holdaway, Lower Wairau, where also grew Notospartium glabrescens (12m distant) and Notospartium carmichaeliae (21m distant). Seeds from this specimen grown by W.B. Brockie at Otari. [Seedlings from Mrs Hursthouses garden hybrid ? in pot at Otari, 16 March 1960. All to 25cm long, leafless, little-branched, all parts terete. 4-5 alike, dark skinned with thick close white short pubescens. None radically formed. 2-3 shrivelled dead leaves left on one ( hand of L.B.Moore)].