424 EPACRIDEX [Dracophyllum. 
branches for some distance below the tips. Flowers rather small, narrow.— 
D. Urvilleanum, A. Rich.; A. Cunn. Precwr.n. 415; Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. 
f. Fl. Antarct. i. 49; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 169. 
Var. filifolium.—Branches long, slender; bark black or chestnut-brown. 
Leaves long, 24-5in., very narrow, often flexuose, canaliculate above.—D. fili- 
folium, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 169. OD. setifolium, Stchegel. in Bull. Soc. 
Nat. Mosc. xxxii. (1859) i. 23. D. virgatum and D. heterophyllum, Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 605, (?)D. pungens, Col. l.c. 602. 
Var. Lessonianum.—Branches stouter. Leaves 14-3in. long, strict, flat 
above, convex beneath. Racemes 6-12-flowered; flowers usually larger. — D. 
Lessonianum, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 223; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 416; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 170. Some forms of this approach D. longifoliwm very closely. 
Var. montanum.—Smaller and stouter, often densely branched. Leaves 
#2 in. long, erect or spreading, broad at the base and gradually narrowed into 
the sheath, which is not auricled above. Flowers in stout terminal or lateral 
spike-like racemes 4-1in. long; bracts broad, concave. This is allied to D. sco- 
pariwm, and was included in it by Hooker, but the leaves are quite glabrous. 
NortH AnD SoutH IsLanps, StEwART IsLAND: Var. a. abundant on dry 
hills from the North Cape to Nelson; var. filifoliwm, from the Bay of Islands to 
Wellington, ascending to 4500 ft. on Mount Egmont and the Ruahine Moun- 
tains, &c.; var. Lessonianwm, from Rotorua southwards to Stewart Island, 
usually in mountain districts; var. montanwm, Mount Hikurangi, Tongariro 
and Ruapehu, Ruahine Mountains, Tararua Mountains, and apparently not un- 
common in the mountains of the South Island, from 2500 ft. to 4500 ft. 
At first sight the extreme forms of this look very distinct, but they are con- 
nected by so many transitional stages that I think Sir J. D. Hooker was right in 
referring them to a single species. 
10. D. Pearsoni, 7’. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 223.— 
Apparently a stout erect much-branched shrub; branches with the 
leaves on nearly $in. diam. Leaves numerous, close-set, densely 
imbricating, erect and appressed to the branch, #-1in. long; 
sheathing base din. wide, not auricled nor truncate\at the tip, 
margins ciliate; blade ,j,in. wide at the base, linear-subulate, 
pungent, rounded on the back, flat or convex in front, smooth and 
polished, glabrous, margins minutely denticulate. Flowers small, 
4in. long, in dense 3-6-flowered spike-like racemes 4-3in. long. 
Sepals ovate, acuminate, rather shorter than the corolia-tube, 
margins ciliate. Corolla-lobes ovate-triangular, acute. Capsule 
obovoid, included within the persistent calyx-lobes. 
SrEwarr Isntanp: Mount Anglem and Smith’s Lookout, Kirk! locality 
doubtful, Pearson ! 
This appears to differ from D. Urvilleanwm in the more numerous densely 
imbricating closely appressed leaves, but further specimens may prove it to be a 
form of that plant. 
11. D. scoparium, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 46.—A shrub or 
small tree, sometimes 20ft. high or more; bark dark chestnut- 
brown ; branches dense, erect. Leaves crowded at the tips of the 
branches, strict, erect, $-3in. long; sheathing base $+ in. broad, 
