Campbell's Islands.] FLORA ANTARCTICA. 45 



regions of New Zealand, especially as it is particularly abundant in Lord Auckland's group, where it creeps 

 over the ground and forms low wiry bushes, resembling the Crow-berry (Empetrum nigrum); the flowers are very 

 inconspicuous, smaller than those of any other plant of the Nat. Ord. with which I am acquainted. The ripe 

 fruit I have never seen ; Mr. Bidwill describes the plant as bearing a white berry. The name, from avi)p (stamen) 

 and fTTOfia (os, oris), is adopted in allusion to the position of the stamens, wherein the chief distinction lies 

 between this genus and Lissanthe, Br. 



Plate XXX. Fig. 1, flower and peduncle ; fig. 2, a scale from the peduncle ; fig. 3, a calycine leaflet ; fig. 4, 

 corolla ; fig. 5, the same expanded ; fig. 6, the same cut open, showing the insertion and position of the stamens ; 

 fig. 7, front, and fig. 8, back view of a stamen ; fig. 9, ovarium ; fig. 10, unripe berry ; fig. 11, transverse section 

 of do. ; fig. 12, unripe seed :— all magnified. 



Tribe EPACRE.E, Br. 



2. DRACOPHYLLUM, Lab. 



Calyx 5-phyllus, basi bracteatus, bracteis persistentibus vel caducis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis, 

 limbo 5-partito, lobis patentibus v. suberectis aestivatione imbricatis, apicibus inflexis cucullatisve imberbibus, 

 tubo tereti subventricoso vel campanulato, fauce plus minusve contracta. Stamina 5 inclusa, corolla; adnata, 

 v. rarius hypogyna. Squama hypogynce 5. Capsula 5-locularis, loculicide 5-valvis, placentis ab apice columnar 

 centralis pendulis solutis. Semina pendula, angulata, testa reticulata. — Frutices vel arbores Australasian et Nova 

 Zelandia, unico Nova Caledonia, paucis ex insulis Antarcticis pervenientibus ; ramis denudatis annulatis cicatricosis . 

 Folia imbrieata, basi vaginantia, graminea v. subulata. Flores racemosi, seu spicati, pedunculis lateralibus termi- 

 nalibusve. Bractea? a lobis ealycinis plerumque vix distinguendte . — Character e Candollei Prodromo ad species 

 omnes mihi cognitas includendas mutuatus. 



1. Dracopiiyllum longifolium, Br. ; arboreum, ramis atris exustis, ramulis castaneis, foliis ad 

 apices ramulorum confertis e basi lata vaginante abrupte angustioribus longissime lineari-subulatis 

 strictis rarius (plantis junioribus) recurvis concavis striatis pubescentibus vel glabris, floribus spi- 

 catis, spicis solitariis rarius binis aggregatisve lateralibus 7-9-floris, pedicellis articulatis, bracteis 

 deciduis, corollas tubo campanulato calycem superante, limbi segmentis late ovatis obtusis. (Tab. 

 XXXI. & XXXII.)— Brown, Prodr. p. 556 (in nota). A. Rich. Ft. Nov. Zel. p. 219. A. Cunn. 

 Prodr. Flor. Nov. Zel. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 48. DeC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 770. Epacris lon- 

 gifolia, Forst. Prodr. n. 68. Char. Gen. t. 10. n. 1. et MSS. in Mus. Par. a CI. A. Richard, I. supra 

 cil. evulgata. 



Hab, Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island ; in woods near the sea, abundant, never 

 ascending more than 400 feet on the hills. 



Caulis seu truncus arboreus, ascendens, 15-25 ped. altitudine, diametro H pedalis, et paulo ultra prope 

 basin, ramosus, cortice fusco atro quasi usto sulcis longitudinalibus confluentibus exarato obtectus, ligno albido 

 molli.laminibusinconspicuis, radiis medullaribus paucis latiusculis ; ramis brachiatis erecto-patentibus ; ramulis 

 teretibus crassitie pennse corvinse longe denudatis et cicatricibus horizontalibus annulatis, cortice castaneo nitido, 

 apicibus solummodo foliosis. Folia fasciculata, pleraque stricta, erecta, e basi vaginante longissime lineari-subu- 

 lata, supra pubesccntia, v. subsericea, concava, subtus v. dorso glaberrima, convexa, subcarinata, margine integer- 

 rima sub lente per totam longitudinem ciliata, sensim acuminata apicibus pungentibus, coriacea, striata, lrete 

 viridia, 8 unc. ad pedalem longa, 3-4 lin. lata ; plantis junioribus planiora, glabra, patentia, v. reflexa, graminea ; 

 vagina oblonga, basi amplexicaulis, striata, lamina duplo latior, ^— | unc. longa, margine scariosa, superne 



