604 Transactions. — Botany. 



branchlets. Leaves numerous, imbricate and sheathing, close 

 at tops of brauches but distant along young branchlets, sub- 

 ulate, thickish, 3-9 lines long, ^^in. wide, tips obtuse with a 

 callous mucro, margins minutely and finely serrulate {suh lens), 

 concave above semiterete below ; sheaths gradually dilated, 

 2 lines long, 5-nerved, their margins very thin, ciliolate on 

 upper portion. Flowers few, 2-3 together, terminal on small 

 stout lateral branchlets. Calyx sub-linear-lanceolate, li lines 

 long, margins thin, ciliolate, tip mucronulate. Corolla red, 

 longer than bracteoles, 2 lines long ; lobes deltoid subacute 

 erect, margins slightly uneven and incurved. Anthers orbicu- 

 lar. Style short, stout, ovary truncate at apex. Scales 

 broadly cuneate, their tips truncate and slightly retuse. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range : Mr. H. Hill ; 1895. 



Obs. A species of a most peculiar aspect, from its very 

 slender fastigiate branches, and excessively narrow and short 

 erect leaves. 



4. D. brachyphyllurn, sp. nov. 



A small low shrub (from specin:iens 4in.-5in. long, one of 

 them being apparently gathered from base), ascending or sub- 

 erect, much bi-anched ; branchlets fastigiate, short, suberect, 

 lin.-2in. long, slender, much scarred (or, more properly, 

 ringed), regularly 1 line apart; bark i-ed- brown, glabrous, 

 shining. Leaves rather numerous, patent, recurved, linear 

 subulate, thickish, 5-7 lines long, -^V^^- wide, subquadri- 

 fariously disposed, concave, veined, margins finely serrulate, 

 tips obtuse with a minute callous subacute mucro ; colour 

 dull-dark-green. Sheathing-bases largely clasping, 3 lines 

 long, 2 lines wide, much veined ; margins membranous, finely 

 and minutely ciliolate above, gradually contracting into lamina. 

 Flowers few, close-set, terminal on main branch in a short 

 stout raceme sub lin. long and bearing 7-9 flow^ers ; bracteoles 

 ^in. long (as long as tube of corolla), deltoid acuminate, 2 lines 

 broad at base, many veined, enwrapping, margins membranous 

 and finely ciliate ; tips thickened acute, callous; the outer- 

 most one a little longer than corolla with its tip dilated ; 

 pedicels stout, 1 line long, transversely wrinkled. Sepals 

 narrow linear, very concave, margins ciliate. Corolla 3 lines 

 long, cylindrical, red ; lobes small, recurved. Anthers small, 

 oblong, situated lower down in tube than usual. Style longer 

 than ovary, stout ; ovary small, sides grooved. Scales broadly 

 cuneate, truncate, slightly retuse, higher than ovary and 

 slightly incurving over it. 



Hab. Ruahine Mountain-range : Mr. H. Hill ; 1895. 



Obs. A species near I), rccurvum, but differing in several 

 characters. 



