418 EPACRIDEZ. [Dracophyllum. 
6. DRACOPHYLLUM, Labill. 
Erect or prostrate shrubs, or more rarely small trees; branches 
ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the 
ends of the branches or imbricate along them, broad and sheathing 
at the base, above that suddenly contracted into a very narrow 
linear rigid or grassy usually concave blade. Flowers small, white 
or red, in terminal or lateral panicles or racemes or spikes, rarely 
solitary. Sepals 5, ovate or lanceolate, persistent. Corolla 
cylindric or campanulate; lobes 5, spreading, imbricate, often in- 
curved at the tips. Stamens hypogynous, or the filaments adnate 
to the corolla-tube ; anthers usually included in the tube, attached 
at or near the middle. Hypogynous scales 5, free. Ovary 5-celled ; 
style inserted in a depression at the top of the ovary; stigma small, 
or larger and 5-lobed; ovules numerous, attached to a decurved 
placenta in the inner angle of the cell. Capsule 5-celled, locu- 
licidally 5-valved. Seeds numerous. 
In addition to the 18 species found in New Zealand, all of which are 
endemic, there are 10 in Australia and Tasmania, and 5 in New Caledonia. 
The student will find the species exceedingly difficult of discrimination, espe- 
cially those of section B, where they appear to pass into one another by small 
gradations, and where the chief distinctive characters available are the highly 
variable ones of size, habit, and foliage. 
A. Flowers panicled. Calyx smail, much shorter than the corolla-tube, and 
always much less than the ripe capsule. 
Shrub or small tree 8-20ft. high. Leaves 10-18in., 
1-1} in. wide at the base.’ Panicle terminal, 6-18 in. 
long. Flowers }in. diam. Capsules ,in. .. .. 1. D. latifolium. 
Similar to the preceding but much stouter. Leaves 
10-24 in., 1-2in. wide. Panicles denser. Capsules 
larger, rin. diam. .. 2. D. Traversi. 
Shrub 10-20 ft. high. Leaves 6-12 in. Vine wide at the 
base. Panicles small, lateral below the leaves, drooping, 
2-3in. long. Flowers 4in. long : . 8. D. Townsont. 
Small much-branched shrub, stem often ‘decumbent below. 
Leaves 3-8 in. long. Panicles lateral, drooping, 3-6 in. 
long. Flowers large, 4 in. long Gi Be .. 4. D. Menziesit. 
Small much-branched shrub. Leaves 14-4 in. long. 
Panicles terminal, 14-4in. long. Flowers 4-}in. .. 5. D. strictwm. 
B, Flowers in spikelike racemes or solitary. Calyx almost equaliing the 
corolla-tube or longer than it, always completely enclosing the rupe capsule. 
* Flowers in spike-like racemes. 
Shrub 4-15ft. Leaves patent and recurved, 14-5 in. 
long. Racemes lateral, 4-8-flowered.. 6. D. Sinclairit. 
Shrub 1-3ft. Leaves patent and recurved, 3 4 -ihin. long, 
obtuse. Flowers in terminal bracteate spikes 7. D. recurvum. 
Leaves erect, 3-10in. long, sheathing base 4-3 in. broad. 
Racemes 6-15-flowered 8. D. longifoliwm. 
Leaves erect, 1-5in. long, sheathing base a din. wide, 
truncate or auricled at the tip. Racemes 4-12-flowered 9. D. Urvilleanwm. 
Leaves in many series, erect and appressed, very stout, 
polished, glabrous, #-1in. long. Racemes 3-6-flowered 10. D. Pearsoni. 
