Dracophyllum. | EPACRIDEZ. 419 
Leaves erect, 3-3in. long, silky-pubescent above, margins 
ciliate with copious white hairs. Racemes 3-6-flowered 11. D. scopariwms 
Very slender. Jueaves small, erect, 4-lin. long. Ra- 
cemes 2-5-flowered Ete = Be .. 12. D. subulatum. 
Stout, spreading, much branched. Leaves spreading, 
1-24 in. long, 4-4in. broad at the base, gradually taper- 
ing, evenly pubescent on both surfaces. Racemes 
3-5-flowered “ie St ot 56 .. 13. D. pubescens. 
** Flowers usually solitary. 
Decumbent. Leaves spreading, 3}-2in. long, din. broad 
at the base, gradually tapering, glaucous, glabrous. 
Flowers lateral, solitary 53 by aA Stel Da Karkay 
Erect. Leaves 4-2in. long (2-4in. in var. aciculari- 
folium); blade ;,-7, in. broad, pungent. Flowers 
lateral =F he ae ae ac .. 15. D. uniflorum. 
Depressed or prostrate, rarely suberect. Leaves +-lin., 
obtuse. Flowers usually terminating short lateral 
branchlets as a. ar oe .. 16. D. rosmarini- 
folium. 
Small, prostrate, laxly or closely branched. Leaves imbri- 
cate, 4-+in. long, linear-subulate from a broad ovate 
base. Flower terminal ae Ae be .. 17. D. prostratum. 
Small, forming densely compacted tufts a few inches 
across. Leaves closely imbricate, ;4-}in. long, tips 
subulate, usually obtuse 18. D. muscoides. 
1. D. latifolium, A. Cuwnn. Precur. n. 412.—A shrub or small 
tree 8-20ft. high or more, with a trunk 4-12in. diam.; young 
plants forming slender erect unbranched rods with a tuft of grassy 
leaves at the top; old ones much branched, the branches often 
whorled, curving outwards and then ascending, giving the tree a 
eandelabrum-like appearance, closely ringed with the scars of the 
fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branches, squar- 
rose, spreading and recurved, 10—24 in. long, 1-14 in. broad at the 
dilated sheathing base, gradually tapering into very long slender 
points, quite glabrous, coriaceous, striate, concave or rarely nearly 
flat, margins very minutely serrulate. Panicle terminal, 6-18 in. 
long, much and closely branched, linear-oblong, erect in flower, 
inclined in fruit, rhachis and pedicels densely pubescent. Flowers 
crowded, very numerous, shortly pedicelled, $in. diam., reddish. 
Calyx very small, not + the length of the corolla; sepals broadly 
ovate, acute or obtuse, striate. Corolla campanulate, lobes rather 
longer than the tube, oblong, obtuse, sharplv recurved. Anthers 
large, oblong, exserted. Capsule small, jin. diam., depresso- 
globose —Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 167; Handb. 
N.Z. Fi. 181; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 123. D. recurvatum, Col. an 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi. (1889) 92. 
Norte Istanp : Common in hilly forests from the North Cape to Hawke’s 
Bay and Taranaki. Sour Isnanp: Nelson and Westland, from Collingwood 
as far south as Charleston. Sea-level to 3000 ft. Newmet. January— 
February. 
