422 EPACRIDEZ. [Dracophyllum. 
than the blade, gradually narrowed into long acuminate points, 
coriaceous or somewhat grassy, concave ; margins finely serrulate, 
ciliolate at the base. Racemes lateral, 1—2in. long, 4-8-flowered, 
usually fascicled along the branches some distance below the tip. 
Bracts persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers +in. long, 
white. Sepals almost equalling the corolla, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate. Anthers included. Style short, stout. Capsule small, 
concealed by the persistent sepals.—D. squarrosum, Hook. f. Fl. 
Antarct. i. 48. (not of R. Br.); Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 169; Handb. N.Z. 
Fil. 181. 
Norts Istanp: From the North Cape as far as the Hast Cape, but often 
local, usually near the sea. Ascends to 2500ft. Flowers most of the year. 
Hooker’s name is most appropriate; but unfortunately it is preoccupied by 
an Australian species (D. squarrosum, R. Br. Prodr. 556). This was made the 
type of the genus Sphenotoma by Don, but was reunited with Dracophyllum by 
Bentham in the ‘‘ Flora Australiensis.’’ 
7. D. recurvum, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 50.—A small rather 
stout much-branched shrub 6in. to 2ft. or 3ft. high; bark 
blackish-brown ; branches naked, ringed with the scars of the fallen 
leaves. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branches, spreading 
and recurved, 4-ldin. long; sheathing base membranous, ++ in. 
broad, ciliolate, suddenly narrowed into a rigid and coriaceous 
linear-subulate usually much recurved lamina, which is concave on 
the upper surface and almost keeled: beneath, tip obtuse, margins 
minutely serrulate. Flowers +in. long, in short and stout terminal 
bracteate spikes 4+-lin. long; bracts numerous. large, persistent, 
almost concealing the flowers, base broad and foliaceous, tip short, 
subulate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost as long as the 
corolla-tube, ciliolate. Corolla narrow-campanulate; lobes short, 
ovate - triangular, acute. Anthers included. Style very short. 
Capsule small, $in. long, shorter than the sepals.—/f/l. Nov. Zel. 
i,171; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 181. D. rubrum, Col. in Transs NZ. 
Inst. xx. (1888) 200. D. tenuicaulis, Col. l.c. xxii. (1890) 476. D. 
brachyphyllum and D. varium, Col. l.c. xxviii. (1896) 602, 604. 
D. brachycladum, Col. l.c. xxxi. (1899) 275. 
- NortH Istanp: Mount Hikurangi, East Cape district, Colenso! Tonga- 
riro and Ruapehu, Bidwill, Captain G. Mair, Kirk, and others; Ruahine Range, 
Colenso! H. Hill! Petrie! 2500-4500 ft. 
Easily distinguished by the small size, recurved leaves, and short dense 
terminal spikes with foliaceous bracts. I have examined the type specimens of 
Mr. Colenso’s new species preserved in his herbarium, but fail to see how they 
can be separated even as varieties. 
8. D. longifolium, FR. Br. Prodr. 556.— Very variable in 
stature, sometimes a shrub from 4 to 8ft. high, at others 
forming a small tree 12 to 25ift. with a trunk 6-1din. 
diam.; bark black; branches slender, erect, naked below. Leaves 
