Campbell's Islands.] FLORA ANTARCTICA. 47 



folio sed prioris colore pallidiore, ramis densis erectis, ramulis breviusculis fasciculatis graeilibus sub ^ lin. dia- 

 metro. Folia apicibus ramulorum conferta, omnia stricta, erecta, 1^ unc. longa, | lin. lata, fusco-viridia, intus 

 marginibusque pubescentia, subsericea, vagina latiuscula, brunnea, superne attenuata. Spicoe numerosa?, inter 

 folia conferta?, breviuscutae, A-J unc. longa?, axillares et terminales, stricta?, erectae, rarius nutantes, 3-4 fiores, 

 rachi articulata glabra castanea. Flores breviter pedicellati, pedicellis cum rachi articulatis pubescentibus. 

 Bracteee 2-3, corollam superantes. exteriores basi late vaginantes, deinde lineari-subulate ut folia sed breviores, 

 coriacea?, spicis ajquilongse, marginibus dorsoque carinato-ciliatis, intus sericeo-pubescentes, interiores minores. 

 Calycis foliola ovata, acuta, striata, marginibus scariosis ciliatis, tubo corolla? breviora, persistentia. Corolla 

 sub 1| lin. longa, pro genere latissima, late campanulata, suburceolata, albida, inter bracteas occulta inconspicua, 

 tubo brevi calycem vix superante, segmentis brevissimis late ovatis obtusis concavis, primum incurvis apice 

 obtuso inflexo, demum patentibus subinvolutis. Stamina ad faucem inserta, parva, filamentis brevibus. 

 Capsula late obovata, bracteis foliolisque calycinis persistentibus inclusa, valvis coriaceis obovatis apicibus incur- 

 vis medio septiferis ; columna centralis valida, sublignosa, angulata, superne in ramos 5 pendulos clavatos fissa 

 semina gerentes. 



A very peculiar species, most nearly allied to the D. Lessonianum, A. Rich., and D. Urvillianum, A. Rich., 

 but very distinct from both. It has also been gathered upon the Chatham Islands by Dr. Dieffenbach, in whose 

 specimens the leaves are most beautifully margined, and the backs of the bracteae covered with a silvery and 

 velvety pubescence. I do not however place much reliance on the pubescence of any of the species of this genus, 

 which appears a very variable character. 



The genus Draeophyllum was established by Labillardiere upon the D. verticillatum, a plant of New Cale- 

 donia (vide Voyage de Labill. vol. ii. p. 211. t. 40), and afterwards adopted by Mr. Brown, who added the 

 D. secundum of Australia as a second species ; both these have the flowers racemose or panicled, the bracteas 

 caducous, and the stamens either hypogynous or inserted at the very base of the corolla. In a subgenus or 

 section called Sphcnotomu, the latter botanist included some other New Holland plants with spiked flowers, 

 persistent bracteas, and stamens inserted upon the corolla ; this has since been erected into a genus by Mr. 

 Sweet (Fl. Austral, t. 44), and retained as such by all future authors. Mr. Brown having further remarked 

 that some of Forster's New Zealand Epacridece, as E. longifolium and E. rosmarinifolium, Forst., belonged to 

 the genus Draeophyllum, as modified by him, they were forthwith published as such by M. A. Richard, who added 

 two more species to the genus, and also by Cunningham, who published a third (D. latifo/ium) ; but none of 

 these authors proposed any sectional characters for these species, which differ most materially from those of 

 Mr. Brown's first section of the genus, in many of them having epipetalous stamens, as also in the flowers being 

 spiked and the bractese persistent, and which equally differ from Sphenotoma in habit and the form of the 

 corolla. Lastly, M. DeCandolle, in 1839, remodelled the generic character of Draeophyllum, and, intending it to 

 include only the plants of Mr. Brown's first section, described the calyx as " ebracteatus," and the stamens as 

 " corolla? non adnata," both characters the opposite of what most of the New Zealand species exhibit. 



Having received several allied new species of this genus from New Zealand, I shall add their characters 

 here and give a conspectus of the whole, both for the purpose of showing the position of D. longifolium and D. 

 scoparium in the series, as also because I am anxious to seize the first opportunity afforded me of laying the new 

 species before the public and remodelling this fine genus*. I may here remark, that as a genus it is an exceed- 



* DIIACOPHYLLUM, Br. 



§ I. S/aminibus hypogynis, v. basi corollas inserlis. 

 1. D. secundum, Br. Brown, Prodr. p. 556. DeC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 769. 

 Hab. New Holland ; in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson. 



