Colexso. — On Phamoganis. 331 



c 



slightly scabrid - puberulous below ; margins thickened, 

 coarsely and closely toothed, teeth knobbed ; veins below 

 very reticulate and dark ; petioles slender, 4-8 lines long, 

 grooved above, puberulent. Flowers bright-yellow, close, 

 showy, in terminal corymbs beyond leaves ; peduncles 

 lin.-ljin. long, filiform 3-flowered, with a long narrow leafy 

 bract at base ; pedicels spreading, slender, 4-5 lines long, a 

 long bract at the base and 2 linear bracteoles above the 

 middle. Heads rather small, campanulate, 4 lines long. In- 

 volucral scales 5, oblong, slightly puberulent above, the 2 

 inner very broad 4-nerved, with large membranous margins, 

 their tips rounded and ciliolate, the 3 outer narrower. Florets 

 few 7-8, 2-3 ray, 5 disc ; lamina of ray broad for size of 

 flower, 7-nerved, tips revolute. Pappus numerous, a little 

 shorter than florets, rather harsh, glossy, white, scabrid, un- 

 equal. Achene linear, glabrous, obsoletely ribbed dark-brown. 

 Disc alveolate, edges raised rough. 



Hab. In a valley near Tolaga Bay, East Coast ; rare ; 

 1892 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. This plant is certainly closely allied to S. perdici- 

 oides, Hook, f., also a very rare plant from that same locality, 

 discovered by Banks and Solander on Cook's first visit to 

 New Zealand. I have been in doubt about describing it as 

 being distinct ; but there seem to me to be certain grave 

 characters pertaining to it, which, if in S. perdicioides, could 

 not have been unnoticed by Hooker, as — its margined and 

 knobbed leaves (which are also of a different form), its peculiar 

 and handsome inner scales of the involucre, and its long 

 bracts and bracteoles. 



Order XLII. Ebice.e. 



Genus 8. Dracophyllum, Labill. 



1. D. imbricatum, sp. nov. 



(My single specimen) a branch 17in. long, simple, straight, 

 stout, as thick as a goosequill at base, base there for 3in.-4in. 

 with dark-brown bark, light-reddish and ringed above where 

 denuded under leaves — apparently a strong, healthy, vigorous 

 young branch. Leaves numerous, close, erect and squarrosely 

 spreading, linear, 4in.-5in. long, 4 lines wide, rather thin yet 

 opaque, smooth, dry, concave, pale-green, glabrous, margins 

 slightly and closely serrulate, tapering to apex, tip long, very 

 narrow and acute, bases dilated -Jin. wide, reddish, imbricate 

 and largely amplexicaul ; the upper leaves erect extending as 

 high as panicle. Flowers terminal in a narrow contracted 

 erect raceme-like panicle, 2in.-2^in. long, sub iin. wide ; bark 

 glabrous, dark-brown, much grooved; few flowers, 3-4 on 

 short branchlets, each branchlet with a long linear bract at 



