Dracophytiwm. | EPACRIDEA. 495 
not auricled nor truncate, margins scarious, ciliate with copious 
white hairs; blade 5—;; in. wide at the base, gradually tapering 
upwards, rigid and coriaceous, upper surface more or less silky- 
pubescent, concave or nearly flat, lower glabrous, convex or almost 
keeled towards the tip, margins ciliate ‘with white hairs for their 
whole length. Flowers white, about +in. long, in dense 3-6- 
flowered spike-like racemes 4—#in. long. Bracts broadly ovate, 
acuminate, silky within, margins ciliate. Sepals ovate, acuminate, 
ciliate, about equalling the corolla-tube  Corolla-lobes short, 
triangular, acute. Capsule broadly obovate, included within the 
persistent calyx-lobes.—f'l. Nov. Zel. 1.170. D. Urvilleanum var. 
scoparium, Handb. N.Z. Fl. 182 (in part). 
Var. major.—Taller and stouter, often 20-30ft. high when fully adult. 
Leaves of mature plants 14-3in., margins more copiously ciliate; of young 
plants or of the lower branches of old ones 6-9 in. long or more, 4—$in. wide, 
fiat, ciliate, gradually tapering into long acuminate points. Racemes 4— 8. 
flowered ; flowers rather larger. Bracts and calyx-lobes often silky on the 
back.— D. latifolium var. ciliolatum, Hook. f. Handb. N.4Z. Fl. 736 (young 
plant). D. arboreum, Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiv. (1902) 318. 
Var. paludosum.~— Smaller, 3-6ft. high when adult, and often flowering 
when less than 6in. Leaves 1-13 in., not longer and wider in the young state. 
Racemes short, 2—4-flowered; flowers rather smaller.—D. rosmarinifolium, 
Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii. (1875) 338 (not of Forst.). D. paludosum, 
Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxivy. (1902) 318. 
CAMPBELL IsLAND: Near the sea, not common, Hooker, Kirk! CHATHAM 
IstanDs: Var. major and paludosum not uncommon, the latter chiefly in swamps, 
Dieffenbach, H. H. Travers! Hnys! Cox and Cockayne ! 
Closely allied to D. Urvilleanwm, to which it was reduced by Sir J. D. 
Hooker in the Handbook, but constantly differing in the conspicuously 
ciliate margins of the leaves, which are also silky-pubescent on the upper surface. 
The leaf-sheaths are also never auricled or truncate, asin D. Urvilleanwm, but 
are simply rounded at the top, passing more gradually into the blade. My two 
varieties major and paludoswm are both treated as distinct species by Mr. 
Cockayne. It is possible that he may be correct with respect to var. major, 
which differs not only inits much larger size, but also in the very distinct leaves of 
the juvenile stage. But the leaves and flowers of the mature stage are in both 
varieties so very similar to those of the original Campbell Island plant that 1 
hesitate to separate either of them. 
12. D. subulatum, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 50.—An erect shrub 
2-6 ft. high, with long slender twiggy branches leafy at the tips; 
bark dark red-brown or almost black. Leaves small, strict or 
flexuose, 4-1 in. long, rarely more; sheathing base rz10! a broad, 
truncate or auricled at the tip; blade very narrow, 34-5 in. wide 
at the base, pungent, rigid and coriaceous, concave or flat above, 
convex beneath, triquetrous at the tip, glabrous on the margins, 
most ely serrulate. Leaves of young plants larger, some- 
times #14 in. long by ;4,in. wide at the base, spreading or recurved. 
Racemes ‘small, lateral, often crowded along the branches, 2-6- 
flowered. Flowers small, zo-b in. long. Bracts with broadly 
