Dracophylium.] EPACRIDEH. 427 
A very distinct species. The leaves are quite unlike those of any other 
species belonging to the same section of the genus, having the sheathing bases 
not much wider than the blade; but they much resemble those of D. strictwm, 
in the section with panicled inflorescence. Its only near allyis D. pubescens, 
which differs in the pubescent leaves and 3-5-flowered spikes. 
15. D. uniflorum, Hook. 7. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 182.—A stout 
erect shrub 3-6it. high; bark dark-brown or almost black. Leaves 
crowded at the tips of the branches, erect, strict or flexuous, 4-2 in. 
long; sheathing base ;4-4in. broad, rounded at the tip but not 
auricled, margins ciliate; blade ,-;, in. broad at the base, rigid, 
coriaceous, pungent, semiterete below, triquetrous above, margin 
most minutely serrulate. Flowers solitary, lateral, +4 in. long, 
shortly pedicelled. Bracts 3-6, with broad sheathing bases, tips 
pungent, often exceeding the flower. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes ovate-triangular, acute. 
Capsule broadly obovoid, enclosed in the persistent calvx-lobes.— 
D. acerosum, Berggr. in Minnesk. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. (1877) 15. 
Var. acicularifolium.—Leaves much longer, 2-4in., narrowed into long 
acicular points; sheaths broader, auricled at the tips. 
Var. virgatum.—Whole plant purplish-brown. Branches long, very 
slender, sparingly leafy. Leaves small, }$in. long. Bracts with pale 
membranous margins. 
SourH Isnanp: Abundant in mountain districts from Nelson to Foveaux 
Straits. Var. acicwlarifoliwnm: Broken River basin, and other localities in the 
mountains of Canterbury, Kirk! Hnys! T. F.C. Var. virgatum: Westland— 
Near Kumara, Kirk! Denniston, J. Caffin! 2000-4500 ft. December- 
March. 
16. D. rosmarinifolium, &. Sr. Prodr. 556.—A depressed or 
prostrate, rarely suberect, much-branched rigid woody shrub 3-12 in. 
high; branches stout, spreading, leafy at the tips. Leaves erect or 
spreading, rigid, straight or curved, }-2in. long; sheathing base 
short, in. wide; blade 4, in. wide at the base, very thick and cori- 
aceous, convex at the back, flat or concave in front, tip trigonous, 
obtuse or rarely subacute, margins entire or very minutely scabrid. 
Flowers solitary, terminating the branchlets and often confined to 
the lateral ones, $in. long. Bracts numerous, with broad sheathing 
bases and subulate tips. Sepals ovate, acute, about as long as the 
corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 
220; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 414; Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. 1.171; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 183. Epacris rosmarinifolia, Forst. 
Prodr. n. 67. 
Var. politum.—Stems long and creeping or short and tufted, sometimes 
forming compact masses. Leaves numerous, densely imbricated in many series, 
erect and appressed to the branch, }+in. long, red-brown, convex and smooth 
and polished on the back, concave in front, tips very obtuse. Flowers almost 
hidden by the leaves. 
