CoLENSo. — On new Phanogamic Plants. 9S 



leaves, the rings 1-2 lines apart. Leaves terminal in bunches 

 at tips of branchlets, sub 20, close, imbricate, amplexicaul, 

 linear acuminate, 16in. long, fin. wide at base, sub-cori- 

 aceous, smooth, glossy, finely striate, light-green, their upper 

 half exceedingly narrow, tips subulate acuminate, flexuous ; 

 their bases orange-coloured, thin, dilated ; margins entire (to 

 the eye), but under a powerful lens minutely and distantly 

 bluntly denticulate. Flowers terminal, numerous, crowded, 

 paniculate in a narrow thyrsoid-panicle, 5in. long, IJin. wide, 

 linear-lanceolate, erect, red, sometimes 2 panicles together ; 

 peduncle very stout, 2in. long, ringed, puberulous ; panicle 

 and pedicels pubescent ; sub-panicles l^in. long, mostly 4- 

 branched ; branches 6-8 lines long, each bearing 9-14 flowers ; 

 pedicels short, 1 line long. Sepals sub-oblate-orbicular, veined 

 longitudinally; tips broad, angular; much and finely laciniate ; 

 laciniae acute. Corolla sub-campanulate, 2 lines diameter; 

 tube short, lobes longer than tube, oblong-ovate, w^avy, re- 

 curved, appressed, 1-nerved ; tips obtuse and slightly denticu- 

 late. Stamens long, exserted, largely decurved. Anthers 

 large, oblong-ovate, cordate ; tips very obtuse, versatile and 

 pendulous appressed around corolla. Style stout, exserted ; 

 stigma sub-clavate, capitate, puberulous. Hypogenous scales 

 broadly oblong ; tips sub - truncate, denticulate. Capsule 

 (mature and old) very small, orbicular, about 1 line diameter, 

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Bah. On high grounds, "from 2,000ft. to 3,000ft. alt.," 

 hills around Lake Waikare, County of Wairoa ; 1888 : Mr. H. 

 Hill. Also, seen there earlier by Mr. A. Hamilton. 



Ohs. This is a very fine species of Dracophyllum, the 

 largest known of our New Zealand species. 1 had casually 

 heard of it some time ago, but only from settlers, who caviled 

 it "neinei," the Maori name of the large northern species 

 D. latifolium ; and therefore, as well as from their very im- 

 perfect account of the plant, I had supposed it to be identical 

 with that species : but it is widely different in almost every 

 principal character; its largely-recurved corolla-lobes and 

 anthers, being peculiar and abnormal, give it a singular 

 appearance. It seems, however, to be of various stature : Mr. 

 Hill (who kindly brought me the specimens I have described, 

 gathered by himself) saw it growing singly and sparingly in 

 open and lower grounds, where it was only " from 6ft. to 10ft. 

 high," and the diameter of its bare trunk " about 3in.," its 

 branches assuming a sub-pyramidal form, the largest and 

 lowest being " about 6ft. from the ground." Mr. Hamilton, 

 however, had seen the plant at a much higher altitude on the 

 same range, forming "extensive thickets or groves," and 

 " from 25ft. to 30ft. high," with their bare trunks below 

 "4in. diameter." 



