48 FLORA ANTARCTICA. [Auckland and 



ingly natural one, Richea, Br., being its nearest ally and indeed its representative in Tasmania, whence Mr. 

 Gunn has lately sent a splendid new species, probably the most magnificent plant in the whole Natural 

 Order. 



Plate XXXIII. Fig. 1, a flower surrounded by the bractese ; Jiff. 2, the same removed from the bractea? ; 

 fig. 3, calycine leaf ; fig. 4, segments of the corolla and stamens ; fig. 5, germen and hypogynous scales ; fig. 6, 

 ripe capsule enclosed in the persistent bractese ; fig. 7, the same with the bractea? removed ; fig. 8, the same 

 split open ; fig. 9, a valve of the capsule ; fig. 10, a seed : — all magnified. 



2. D. verticillatum, Lab. Labillardiere, Voyage, vol. ii. p. 211. t. 40. DeC. I. c. p. 770. 

 Hab. New Caledonia; on the mountains. 



§ II. Sta?ninibus epipetalis, floribus paniculatis, bracteis caducis, foliolis calycinis tubo corolla multo brevioribus. 



3. D. latifolium ; arboreum, foliis |-1§ pedalibus longissime lanceolatis subflexuosis (pro genere latis) mar- 

 gine obtuse serrulatis, panicula effusa nutante pilosa demum glabra, bracteis deciduis, floribus parvis, foliolis 

 calycinis a?qualibus pubescentibus late ovatis corolla multo brevioribus. — A. Cunn. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Zel. in Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 48. DeC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 770. Epacris longifolia, Banks and Sol. MSS. in Mus. Brit. 



Hab. New Zealand; common in the woods of the Northern Island. 



The most handsome but smallest-flowered species of the genus. Leaves an inch broad at the base. Panicle 

 a foot long, very much branched. 



4. D. strictum, n. sp. ; arbuscula ?, foliis 2-3 uncialibus late-subulatis suberectis strictis e basi vaginante 

 gradatim acuminatis concavis marginibus serrulatis, panicula 2 unciali recta subcoarctata pilosa ramis crassis, 

 bracteis deciduis, foliolis calycinis ovatis acutis tubo corolla? ^ brevioribus, corolla majuscula 5 lin. longa. 



Hab. New Zealand ; Mountain of Tongariro : Mr. Bidwill. 



Much smaller than the D. latifolium, and remarkably different in the size of the flower. 



5. D. affine, n. sp. ; arbuscula, foliis 2-uncialibus late-subulatis patentibus e basi lata vaginante gradatim 

 acuminatis planiusculis, marginibus serrulatis, panicula 2-unciali nutante glabra effusa ramis tenuibus, bracteis 

 deciduis, foliolis calycinis late-ovatis acutis tubo corolla? \ brevioribus, corolla 1\ lin. longa. 



Hab. New Zealand ; mountains of the interior : Dr. Dieffenbuch. 



At first sight this much resembles the last species, but it has much smaller flowers and is otherwise very 

 distinct. 



§ III. Staminibus epipetalis, floribus spicalis (unica specie solitariis), foliolis calycinis bracteis simillimis tubo 



corolla aquilongis. 



6. D. longifolium, v. supra. 



Hab. New Zealand ; in Dusky Bay, and Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands. 



7. D. squarrosum, n. sp. ; arbuscula, foliis 3-4 uncialibus patentibus squarrosis subgramineis (junioribus 

 strictis) e basi subscariosa vaginante gradatim liueari-subulatis glaberrimis marginibus serrulatis concavis, spicis 

 1^-2 uncialibus lateralibus fasciculatis 5-6-floris, bracteis foliolisque calycinis ovato-lanceolatis gradatim acu- 

 minatis florem superantibus, corolla? tubo gracili, limbi segmentis lanceolatis obtusis. 



Hab. New Zealand ; Northern Island, Manukau Bay : W. Colenso, Esq. 



A small diffuse tree, 12-14 feet high, allied to D. longifolium, but the leaves are of a different habit and 

 texture, and the corolla quite unlike that of the southern plant : both of these have large leaves, and more the 



