426 EPACRIDEZ. [Dracophyllum. 
ovate sheathing bases and erect subulate tips. Sepals usually ex- 
ceeding the corolla-tube.—fV. Nov. Zel. i. 171; Handb. N.Z. FI. 
182. 
NorrH Istanp: From Rotorua and the Upper Thames Valley to Taupo, 
Ruapehu, and the Ruahine Mountains. 350 to 3500ft. Monoao. No- 
vember—March. 
Hasily recognised by its small size and erect slender habit, short very narrow 
leaves, and small flowers. 
13. D. pubescens, Cheesem. n. sp.—A small densely branched 
woody shrub; branches stout, often decumbent below, erect or 
ascending above ; bark dark reddish-brown or almost black. Leaves 
crowded, spreading or erecto-patent, 1-24in. long, 3-4 in. broad at 
the sheathing base, which 1s net much broader than the biade, 
gradually narrowed to an acuminate and pungent point, coriaceous, 
concave in front, rounded on the back, glaucous, striate, minutely 
and evenly pubescent on both surfaces, sometimes becoming almost 
glabrous when old. Flowers about +in. long, in 3-5-flowered spikes 
terminating short lateral branchlets. Bracts ovate, acuminate ; 
margins ciliate. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
equalling the corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes triangular, acute. Capsule 
obovoid, included within the persistent calyx-lobes. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Mountains near Westport, Townson ! 1500- 
2500 ft. 
Habit of D. Kirkii, Berggren, but a larger and stouter and more copiously 
branched plant, with the leaves finely and equally pubescent on both surfaces, 
and with the flowers in 3-5-flowered spikes, not solitary. ‘I'he leaves are very 
similar in shape to those of small specimens of D. strictum, and are quite 
different to those of D. Urvilleanwm, D. scopariwm, and their allies. 
14. D. Kirkii, Berggren in Journ. Bot. xviii. (1880) 104. — A 
small depressed woody shrub; branches very stout, 6-18in. long, 
prostrate or decumbent, suberect at the tips; bark reddish-brown. 
Leaves crowded, spreading or suberect, ?-2in. long, 4in. wide at the 
sheathing base, which is not conspicuously broader than the blade, 
gradually narrowed into an acuminate pungent point, coriaceous, 
more or less concave, glaucous, quite glabrous, striate ; margins very 
minutely serrulate. Flowers solitary, lateral, 4 in. long, shortly 
pedicelled. Bracts 2-3, sheathing, the tips often exceeding the 
flower. Sepals ovate, acuminate, shorter than the corolla-tube, 
margins minutely ciliate. Corolla-lobes ovate-triangular, acute. 
Anthers included. , Capsule broadly obovoid, $1in. diam., enclosed in 
the persistent calyx-lobes—D. uniflorum, Berggr. wm Muinneskr. 
Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. (1877) 15, t. 4, f. 1-11 (not of Hook. f.). 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Lake Tennyson, 7. F. C. Canterbury—Mount 
Torlesse, Berggren; Arthur’s Pass, Kirk! Cockayne! T. F'. C.; Waimakariri 
Glacier, 7'. 7. C.; Ashburton Mountains, Potts ! Mount Cook district, T. F. C. 
Westland—Kelly’s Hill, Petrie ! 2500-4500 ft. December—February. 
