_~ 498 A NEW SPECIES OF DRAPETES. 
Zealand ; Mount Egmont, Dr. Dieffenbach ; Tongariro, J. T. 
Bidwill, Esq. 
Descr. This forms a small low procumbent shrub, send- 
ing out fibrous roots from beneath ; below very woody, about 
the thickness of a crow’s quill and bare of leaves, but marked 
with the scars of fallen ones. Branches very numerous, 
ascending, clothed with numerous, densely imbricated oppo- 
site small leaves, which are linear, obtuse, plane above, con- 
vex beneath, the margins ciliated and the point terminated 
by a tuft of hairs. The flowers are minute, aggregated at the 
apex and almost wholly immersed in the terminal leaves. 
Pedicels short, very hairy at the top where it is articulated. 
Perianth, with the tube swollen below, contracted above; 
the limb of four spreading broadly ovate segments, slightly 
ciliated at the margin. At the mouth of the tube and oppo- 
site the segments are 4 obtuse, short scales. Stamens 4, 
inserted at the mouth of the tube and alternate with the 
scales and the lobes of the perianth, in which particular, I 
believe, it differs from all the other TAymelee; for they, 
when the stamens are equal in number with the segments, 
or fewer, are opposite to them.  Filaments slender, about 
equal in length with the lobes or segments of the perianth. 
- Anthers subglobose. Germen oval, one-celled, one-ovuled, 
bearded at the apex and tipped with the style which is longer 
than the tube of the perianth, deciduous. Fruit nucumen- 
taceous, ovate, crowned with the beard or tuft of hairs, one- 
seeded. Seed suspended, obovate. Albumen fleshy. Em- 
bryo immersed, the radicle directed to the hilum. 
"Tab. XVII. Drapetes Dieffenbachii ; nat. size, f. 1. flower, 
f. 2. the same laid open, f. 3. fruit laid open, f. 4. seed, f. 5. 
seed cut through vertically, f. 6. Embryo removed from the 
seed, f. 7. upper, und 8. under side of a leaf: -—magnf. 
Figure and Description of a new species of ARAUCARIA, from 
Moreton Bay, New Holland, detected by J. T. Browitx, Esa. 
(With a Figure.—Tas. XVIII. XIX.) 
Perhaps of all forest trees, certainly of all the Pine tribe, 
