CoLENSO. — On Neir PJKF-nvgavts. 605 



5. D. virgatmn, sp. nov. 



Shrub erect ("6ft. liigh "), bark greyish, much branched ; 

 branches virgate, 10in.-14in. long, slender, scarred, ringed 

 1-1|- lines apart ; branchlets numerous, 3in.-5in. long, very 

 slender, ^j^m. diameter, erect. Leaves pale -green, filiform, 

 4iin.-5in. long, g^jin. ^Yide, acute, channelled, margins mi- 

 nutely serrulate. Sheathing-bases -J-in. long, 2 lines wide, 

 glabrous, reddish - brown, auricled, auricles acute, margins 

 entire membranous. Flowers ("white sweet-scented") ter- 

 minal in single racemes sub lin. long, 7-8-flowered, on short 

 lateral rather distant branchlets ; flowers alternate, with 3 

 (sometimes 4) long leafy bracts at base of raceme ; pedicels 

 short, 1 line long, stout ; bracteoles ovate-acuminate, concave, 

 ciliolate, longer than tube, the outermost one largely awned, 

 the inner ones pubescent above on middle of back. Sepals 

 ovate-acuminate, nearly as long as corolla, pungent. Corolla 

 small, dark-red, tube 1 line long, lobes spreading narrow ovate- 

 acummate ; tips thickened, slightly incurved. Style stout, 

 exserted, persistent. Stigma large, obsoletely 5-lobed, papil- 

 lose, shining. 



Hah. On Euahine Mountain-range, east side : Mr. A. Ol- 

 son ; 1895. 



Ohs. A very striking shrub of this genus ; its very long and 

 slender branches and leaves allies it with D. squarrosmn, from 

 which species, however, it is very distinct. 



6. D. JtcteropJiylliivi, sp. nov. 



An erect (small?) shrub, my specimen a single branch 

 Sin. long; slender, bark dark-purple, glabrous, ringed 1 line 

 apart ; branchlets opposite, 3, subfascicled, besides the main 

 one, and lin. above two others similar. Leaves rather nume- 

 rous, of irregular lengths, linear, erect, nearly rigid, dull-pale- 

 green, terminal — on main branch 4iiu. long ■g'jjin. wide, on 

 lowermost branchlets 3in. long, and on two uppermost branch- 

 lets l-|in. long — and filiform, sub -^qIu. wide, canaliculate above, 

 semiterete a.nd striate below, margins entire or very minutely 

 scabrid (sub lens), tips acute. Sheathing-bases abruptly ex- 

 panded, 1^-2 lines wide, half-clasping, red, the upper portion 

 of margins minutely ciliolate. Flowers in short terminal 

 spikes, fin. long, 6:flowered, alternate, sessile ; calycine bracts 

 (6) as long as tube of corolla, closely enclosing one another, 

 the inner 4 very small and narrow, 1 line long, subulate, very 

 acute, n:iargins thin and ciliolate ; the 7th or outerjnost bract 

 broadly deltoid, 4 lines long, including the narrow subulate 

 sharp callous tip, which is 2 lines long. Corolla tubular, 3 

 lines long, glabrous, red, 2 lines diameter at mouth ; lobes 

 spreading ovate, subacute, thin, veined. Anthers suborbicular, 

 emarginate, and cordate. Style half as long as corolla. Stigma 



