CoLENSo. — 0)1 New Pluenogamic Plants. 477 



with annular cicatrices from old leaves ; red-brown, glossy. 

 Leaves at tops of branehlets, 12-15 on each, close, erect, re- 

 curved, slightly spreading, subulate, |^in. long, -h line wide, cana- 

 liculate two-thirds of length, glabrous, shining, reddish ; margins 

 minutely serrulate ; tips thickened, sub-terete, roughish, ob- 

 tuse ; the base largely dilated 2 lines wide, amplexicaul, closely 

 imbricate ; decreasing gradualh' in size upwards, the upper- 

 most being only 4 lines long, the limb very short i-li lines, 

 with larger bases much overlapping, and their margins ciliate. 

 Floral bracts orbicular, largely concave, margins finely ciliolate, 

 4 lines long, of which 2 lines form a long subulate thick obtuse 

 mucro. Flowers terminal in small spikes of 3-7 flowers, 

 closely compacted. Calyx, sepals small 1^ lines long, narrow 

 linear acuminate ; tips acute, margins membranous and finely 

 ciliate. Corolla sub-campanulate or broadly tubular, 3i lines 

 long, sides straight, 5-cleft, lobes very small one-fifth length of 

 corolla, triangular acute, margins crisped. Filaments very 

 short, adnate above the iniddle. Anthers small, brown, oblong- 

 cordate, 2-lobed ; tip emarginate. Style short, stout ; stigma 

 slightly capitate, roughish, minutely jagged. Hypogynous 

 scales sub-quadrilateral, obsoletely striate, broadest at top, 

 apical margin sinuate. 



Hab. Arid stonj- ground, Jiigh up on Mount Euapehu, 

 County of East Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A species having affinity with I), rccnrv^im., Hook, f., 

 and also with D. rubriim. Col.," but differing from them in 

 several characters. 



2. D. featoiiianuvi, sp. nov. 



" A small bushy shrub, about 4ft. high." Leaves at tips of 

 slender branehlets, 12-25, erect, loosely spreading, sub-rigid, 

 l^in. long (2^in. at base of panicle), 2-2^- lines wide at base 

 above vagina, suddenly and slightly contracted, linear acumi- 

 nate gradually decreasing to tip, flattish, shghtly concave 

 above, glabrous, striate, inembrano-coriaceous, dull-green ; 

 margins finely serrulate; tip. thickened, sub-acute. Floral 

 bracts, at the base of each branch (or branches when 2 to- 

 gether) of the panicle, orbicular, -Jin. long, largely concave; 

 margins thin, minutely ciliolate (siib leiite) ; tip mucronate, 

 2 lines long; within the bract, at the base of each pedicel, are 

 very narrow curved subulate and setaceous bracteoles 1-2 

 lines long, their upper margins ciliolate ; tips acute. Flowers 

 terminal in a small narrow sub-compact panicle, 2in. long, 

 ^in. wide, stems striate, glabrous, with a few thinly-scattered 

 minute white hairs, almost microscopic ; brandies free, 3-4 

 lines long, largely bracteolate, alternate in pairs, each with 



* " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xx., p. 200. 



