428 EPACRIDE. [Dracophyllum. 
NortH Isnanp: Tararua Range, Buchanan! SourH Isuanp, STEWART 
IsLAND: Common in mountain districts throughout. Var. politum: Maunga- 
tua, near Dunedin, Petrie! Mount Anglem and Smith’s Lookout (Stewart 
Island), Kirk ! 2500-5500 ft. December—March. 
17. D. prostratum, 7. Kirkin Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1881)384. 
—A small prostrate species ; stems 3-12 in. long, sometimes slender 
and sparingly divided, sometimes robust and copiously branched, 
but the branches never so closely compacted as in D. muscotdes. 
Leaves imbricating, erect, incurved when dry, 4+ in. long; sheath- 
ing base short, with broad thin margins, narrowed into a limear- 
subulate blade, which is obtuse or subacute at the tip, coriaceous, 
convex at the back, flat or slightly concave in front, curved, margins 
minutely serrulate. Flowers solitary, terminating the branches, 
Zin. long, white. Sepals ovate, subacute, rather shorter than the 
corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate-triangular. 
SoutH Isuanp: Otago--Mountains above Lake Harris; Longwood Range, 
Kirk ! Maungatua, Clinton Valley, and Blue Mountains, Petrie! 1000-4000 ft. 
Differs from D. muscoides in the larger size and much more lax habit, andin 
the longer leaves, which are not so closely imbricated ; but some of Mr. Petrie’s 
specimens are almost intermediate. 
18. D. muscoides, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 183.— A small 
densely tufted rigid little plant, forming rounded masses a few 
inches in diameter; branches short, densely packed, clothed with 
minute closely imbricating leaves. Leaves ;4—+in. long, very thick 
and coriaceous, rigid, concave; sheathing base about half the 
length, broadly ovate, margins thin; tip short, subulate, polished, 
semiterete, obtuse or more rarely subacute. Flower solitary, ter- 
minal, din. long, white. Sepals ovate, subacute, as long as the 
corolla. Corolla-tube short and broad, cylindrical; lobes very 
broad, obtuse or subacute. ; 
SourH Isnanp: Otago—Mount Alta and Hector’s Col, Buchanan! Old 
Man Range, Hector Mountains, Mount Pisa, Mount St. Bathan’s, Petrie! 
4000-6000 ft. 
In the Index Kewensis this is referred to the Tasmanian D. minimum; but, 
judging from a scrap of that species received from the late Baron Mueller, it 
differs in the more rigid habit and shorter and more closely imbricated leaves, 
which are also thicker and not nearly so acute. 
Orpver XLIV. PRIMULACE.. 
Perennial or more rarely annual herbs. Leaves all radical, or 
cauline, andif so, opposite or alternate or whorled ; stipules wanting. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx usually inferior (hali- 
superior in Samolus), 4—9-lobed or -partite. Corolla gamopetalous, 
with as many lobes as divisions of the calyx, lobes imbricate or 
contorted. Stamens equal in number to the corolla-lobes and 
