46 FLORA ANTARCTICA. [Auckland and 



ciliata, pallide brunnea, nitida; terra tota sub arboribus foliis emortuis delapsis sparsa. Pedunculi solitarii v. 

 fasciculati, rarius plantis junioribus ad apices ramulorum terminales, plerique e ramis brevissimis laterales, 1|— 2 

 uric, longi, stricti, erecti, inclinati, v. rarius nutantes, 7-10 flores; rachi terete glabra suflexuosa articulata ad 

 nodos dilatata cyathiformi. Pedicelli breves, 1-2 lin. longi, cum rachi articulati. Flores subconferti, rarius 

 secundi, erecti, demum nutantes, basi 2-4-bracteati. Bractete inferiores subfoliaceae, flore longiores, interdum 

 elongati ; superiores ovatae, obtusa?, striatse, corollam subaequantes, marginibus scariosis ciliatis, demum deciduae. 

 Calyx 5-phyllus, foliola tubo corollae paulo breviora, bracteis omnino similia, sed minora, intimis angustioribus 

 submenibranaceis. Corolla tubuloso-campanulata, ^ unc. longa, albida, tubo terete sub ore paulo constricto, 

 limbo 5-fido, segmentis patentibus basi imbricatis late ovatis obtusis marginibus subundulatis, medio incrassatis, 

 apice inflexo, praefloratione incurvo. Stamina 5, filamentis linearibus breviusculis infra faucem corollas insertis ; 

 antheris parvisoblongo-quadratis, apicibus exsertis. Pollen stramineum, hyalinum, e sphaerulis 3-5 conglobatis 

 compositum. Glanduhe hypogyrue 5, ovario breviores, loculis opposite, oblongo-cuneatse, superne truncatae, 

 retusae. Ovarium, sessile, late obovatum, 5-lobum, 5-loculare, loculis dorso sulcatis ; ovulis plurimis elongato- 

 pyriformibus, funiculis brevibus columnae centrali affixis pendulis. Stylus validus, erectus, tubo A brevior, apice 

 tmncatus, 3— i-crenatus. Capsula coriacea, foliolis 2-3 calycinis persistentibus inclusa, loculicide 5-valvis. 

 Semina immatura angulata ; testa reticulata laxa. 



A most abundant plant, forming a great portion of the woods which skirt the shores of these islands. The 

 true Drucophyllum longifolium has hitherto been known to botanists only through the specimens collected by the 

 Forsters during Cook's second voyage, and to some of the few who possess portions of the valuable collection 

 formed by Mr. Menzies in Dusky Bay. Mr. Forster made full descriptions of his specimens, which have been 

 published by M. Richard, and as a few discrepancies occur in comparing our own specimens with his, I shall here 

 allude to them, premising that they only refer to such characters as depend much on the different localities the 

 plant may inhabit. That the above-described plant is specifically the same as that gathered both by Forster and 

 Menzies, is evident on the comparison of my specimens with the original drawing of that author. Thus, the 

 leaves are described as smooth and reflexed : they are only so in the younger and more luxuriant state of the 

 trees in Lord Auckland's Islands ; as they grow larger and more exposed to the violence of the climate they 

 become strict, erect, rigid, coriaceous and pubescent above, all of which characters Mr. Menzies' specimens 

 possess, except that they are also smooth. Again, the spikes are solitary in the young trees, but in the older 

 most frequently from 2-5 together ; I have however never seen them nearly a palm long, or indeed more than 

 two inches ; in the British Museum drawings they are about that length. The tube of the corolla is hardly if 

 at all longer than the calyx, and not " duplo longior," and its segments can hardly be considered as acute. 

 The present species is certainly most nearly allied to the D. squarrosum (vide in note, p. 48), but the leaves are 

 broader and more rigid, and the corolla of quite a different shape. 



Plate XXXI. & XXXII. Fig. 1, flower with bracteae ; fig. 2, corolla removed ; fig. 3, the same laid open ; 

 fig. 4, a hypogynous scale ; fig. 5, ovarium and hypogynous scales ; fig. 6, transverse section of the ovarium ; 

 fig. 7, longitudinal section of one cell of do. ; fig. 8, unripe seed removed from do. : — all magnified. 



2. Dracophyllum scoparium, Hook. fil. ; arbuscula, ramis ramulisque fasciculatis strictis 

 fusco-castaneis, foliis e basi vaginante gradatim angustatis lineari-subulatis strictis rigidis antice 

 planis v. subcanaliculatis marginibusque pubescentibus dorso semiteretibus apicibus triquetris, flori- 

 bus spicatis, spicis plurimis brevibus erectis sub 4-floris, bracteis foliolisque calycinis corollam supe- 

 rantibus omnibus late ovatis acuminatis marginibus ciliatis exterioribus foliaceis intus sericeis, corolla 

 late campanulata tubo brevi, segmentis brevissimis late ovatis obtusis. (Tab. XXXIII.) 



Hab. Campbell's Island ; near the sea, not common. 

 Arbor humilis. Caulis ascendens, 6-8 pedalis, basi compressus ramosus, cortice et ligno ut in D. longi- 



