Epaeridee. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 163 
Has. Northern Island. In mountainous situations, Dieffenbach, Bidwill, Colenso. 
A remarkably fine shrub, to be recognized at once by the large, sessile, cordate, opposite leaves. Branches 
smooth, rarely setose, di-tri-chotomously forked. Leaves 13-13 inch long, sessile, the lobes of their cordate bases 
sometimes half-clasping the stem, blunt or sharp, concave, bluntly serrulate or crenate, sometimes doubly crenate ; 
in var. 8 the backs of the leaves, as well as the branches, are covered with appressed brown sete. Zacemes axillary 
and terminal, the former simple, as long as or longer than the leaves, the latter paniculate, with spreading branches. 
Flowers numerous, small, like those of G. rupestris—I have numerous specimens of this fine plant, collected by va- 
rious travellers; they are very constant in their characters, and none of them have berried fruit—Puars XLII. 
Fig. 1, raceme of fruit, natural size; 2, flower; 3, ovarium; 4, stamen ; 5, ripe capsule :—all magnified. 
Nat. On». L. EPACRIDEA, Br. 
Gen. I. CYATHODES, Zr. 
Calya multibracteatus. Corolla infundibuliformis v. urceolata, tubo calycem vix superante, intus 
glaberrimo, imberbi; limbo patente, barba rara v. 0. Filamenta inclusa v. exserta. Ovarium 5-10.loculare ; 
loculis l-spermis. Drupa baccata. 
An Australian and Tasmanian genus, also sparingly found in the Pacific Islands, and as far south as Campbell’s 
Island. Flowers solitary or few together, small, white or yellow, their pedicels covered with bracts, which are 
gradually larger upwards, and appear to pass into the sepals. Corolla funnel-shaped or urceolate, the tube scarcely 
longer than the calyx, five-lobed; tube smooth, lobes also smooth or bearded. Filaments included or exserted. 
Ovary five- to ten-celled ; cells with one ovule. Drupe with a bony five- to ten-celled nut. (Name from «vados, a 
cup ; in allusion to the cup-shaped dise surrounding the ovarium.) 
1. Cyathodes acerosa, Br.; fruticosa, erecta v. decumbens, foliis lineari-oblongis linearibusve patulis 
acerosis acutis pungentibus glaberrimis ciliatisve subtus glaucis 5-10-nerviis nervis extimis pectinatim ra- 
mulosis, floribus solitariis, calycis lobis bracteisgue obtusis obscure ciliatis, corollis glaberrimis. Br. Prod». 
p. 539 in nota. A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. Styphelia acerosa, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ie. Leucopogon 
Forsteri, A. Rich. Flora. Hpacris juniperina, Forst. Prodr. Ardisia acerosa, Gartner. 
Var. B. latifolia ; ramis robustis, foliis latioribus ($ unc. longis 3 lin. latis) subtus multinerviis 
acutis vix pungentibus, baccis magnis. 
Var. y. parvifolia ; ramis gracilibus, foliis ž unc. longis, baccis parvis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Abundant on the skirts of woods, etc., Banks and Solander, 
ete. Var. 8. Chatham Island, Digffenöach. Var. y. Port Nicholson, Taupo Lake, ete., Colenso, ete. ; 
Middle Island, Zyall. 
A very abundant, large, evergreen shrub or small tree, with blackish woody branches, densely covered with 
little harsh, sharp, needle-like leaves, and bearing very small white flowers and large globose red or white drupes. 
Branches slightly pubescent. Leaves spreading, generally $ inch long, very narrow linear, with pungent apices, 
broader, longer, and sharper in var. 8; shorter but still pungent and needle-like in var. y; margins often recurved 
and ciliated, white underneath, with many parallel veins, the outer ones branching towards the margin of the 
leaf beyond its middle. Flowers solitary, shortly pedicellate, minute. Bractee and calyx lobes blunt, mi- 
nutely ciliated. Corolla scarcely larger than the calyx, quite smooth; lobes spreading, sharp. Berry varying in 
size from a pepper-corn to a large pea.— This is a very variable plant in foliage, and I suspect not distinct from the 
following. There is a tendency in the leaf (very variable in amount) to become broader towards the tip, whence 
the outer nerves branch to supply the increased surface, which I do not observe in the following species; this 
