Epacridee.] FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 165 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. Var. 8. On the mountains and 
in low grounds. Var. y. Mountains. Nat. name, “ Tumingi,” Middle Island, Lyall. 
In its ordinary state this variable plant forms a small evergreen tree, or small bush, with twiggy pubescent 
branches, and somewhat whorled, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves, an inch long and 2-8 lines wide. In 
var. 6, however, they are comparatively much broader and blunter, 4 inch long and 3 lines wide; whilst in var. y 
they are shorter and very narrow, with pungent apices. In all varieties they are nearly flat, striated above, ob- 
scurely veined below, with ciliated or denticulate margins. Spikes shorter than or as long as the leaves, drooping, 
five- to ten-flowered, pubescent. Flowers sessile on the spike, 1 line long; bractese and calyx-lobes blunt. Stamens 
inserted at the mouth of the corolla. Drupe small, hardly fleshy, oblong, few-celled. 
2. Leucopogon Colensoi, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus, caule decumbente ramoso, ramis ascendentibus, ramulis 
incanis, foliis erecto-patulis lineari-oblongis acutis obtusisve marginibus ciliolatis apices versus seepissime 
submembranaceis subtus glaucis 5-7-nerviis, nervis extimis ramosis, racemis brevibus 3-5-floris, calycis 
lobis bracteisque 2-3 late ovatis obtusis, staminibus fauce corolle insertis, drupis baccatis, nuce 5-loculari. 
Has. Northern Island. Base of Tongariro, Taupo, etc., Colenso. 
A small, prostrate, heath-like shrub, a foot high, with long, woody, leafy branches. eaves uniform in size, 
+ inch long, linear-oblong, blunt or sharp, smooth above, glaucous and many-veined below, the outer veins branch- 
ing; margins minutely ciliated, thickened, except towards the tip, where they are often dilated and membranous. 
Spikes erect, short, stout, longer than the leaves, puberulous, three- to five-flowered. Flowers nearly sessile, with 
one bract at the base of the very short peduncle and two below the calyx, which, as well as the calyx-lobes, are 
broadly ovate, blunt and concave. Corolla with the tube a little exserted, white. Drupe fleshy, white or red, with 
a five-celled, bony, enclosed nut.—This very distinct species so closely resembles in foliage the Cyathodes Tamaia- 
meie, Cham., of the Sandwich Islands, that it is difficult to distinguish them at first sight. It is still more nearly 
allied to the Leucopogon suaveolens, Nob., of Borneo. See Hook. Ic. Plant. in note to t. 898. 
3. Leucopogon Frazeri, A. Cunn.; fruticulus humilis, caule e basi decumbente erecto simplici v. di- 
viso, ramis erectis foliosis puberulis, foliis erectis imbricatis obovato-oblongis acuminatis aristatis striato- 
venosis marginibus ciliolatis cartilagineo-chartaceis, floribus axillaribus sessilibus solitariis, corolla tubulosa 
calycis lobis ovatis acuminatis ter longiore, drupa baccata. A. Cunn. Prodr. L. nesophilus, DC. Prodr. 
v. T. p. 752. L. Bellignianus, Raoul, Choi de Plantes, p. 18. t. 19. Styphelia humilis, Banks et Sol. 
MSS. et Ic. 
Has. Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, in dry, sandy, clayey, and rocky places, 
Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. name, “Totara,” Col. 
Whole plant 2—4 inches high, branching from the base. Branches erect, covered with imbricating leaves 
1-1 inch long. Leaves obovate-oblong, acuminate, aristate, striated, with cartilaginous, thin, serrulate margins. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, longer than the leaves, white, large for the size of the plant and for the genus, 
sweet-scented. Corolla at least thrice as long as the calyx, tubular. Style hairy. Drupe orange-coloured, eatable, 
sweetish.—Very similar to a Java species, which might well be supposed the same, judging by the leaf only; but 
the corolla in that is barely longer than the calyx. It is still more nearly allied to a Tasmanian species, L. pungens, 
which I called Pentachondra pungens (Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 270); but in that plant the corolla is much 
shorter than in this, and hardly twice the length of the calyx. M. De Candolle has altered the specific name of this, 
and retained another MS. name of Cunningham’s (also of Frazeri) for a New Holland plant. A. Cunningham had, 
however, published the New Zealand one under this name before the appearance of the seventh volume of De 
Candolle containing the Epacridez. 
