Epacridea. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 167 
3. Epacris? racemosa, Hook. fil.; ramis puberulis virgatis, foliis subverticillatis patentibus obovato- 
oblongis subacutis planis enerviis coriaceis reticulatim venosis, floribus racemosis breve pedicellatis 2-brac- 
teatis?, racemo puberulo, bracteis caducis?, calycis lobis oblongis obtusis striatis margine late scariosis 
ciliatis, corolla campanulata limbo patente, filamentis inter lobos insertis, ovario 5-loculari, ovulis plurimis 
columnee ascendenti affixis.—An novum genus? 
Has. Great Barrier Island, Capt. D. Rough (communicated by Dr. Sinclair). 
Of this very remarkable plant I have but one fragment without anthers, presenting, however, so many marked 
characters, distinguishing it from any Epacrideous plant known to me, that I have not hesitated to record it as a new 
species; having little doubt, however, that it is generically different from Epacris. The habit is that of a broad- 
leaved Leucopogon, but the structure of the ovarium removes it from the one-ovuled section of the Order to that con- 
taining Epacris itself. It differs from the last-named genus in the few bracteole, and remarkably in habit, but 
agrees with it in the five-celled ovarium with many ovules in each cell, attached to an erect columnar placenta. 
Leaves fascicled at intervals, appearing whorled, 1 inch long, i inch broad, spreading, coriaceous, flat, ob- 
ovate, rather acute, striated with reticulated veins, quite glabrous on both sides and on the margins. Raceme 
(the only one I have seen) terminal, nodding, pubescent, eight- to ten-flowered, as long as the leaf. Flowers 
drooping, white, nearly 4 inch broad, on short pedicels 1 line long. Bractee one or two (perhaps more), caducous. 
Calyx lobes oblong, blunt, striated, with membranous ciliated margins. Corolla campanulate, with spreading, 
ovate, slightly ciliated, blunt lobes; tube longer than the calyx. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the corolla. 
Style very short, stout, included. Stigma five-lobed. Glands surrounding the ovarium five, lobed. 
Gen. V. DRACOPHYLLUM, Zas. 
Calyx 5-phyllus, bracteatus. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis ; loborum apicibus incurvis, imberbi- 
bus. Stamina 5 (speciebus Novee Zelandiz corolle adnata). Sguama hypogyna 5. Capsula 5-locularis. 
Semina columne centrali pendulce adnata.—Frutices v. arbores, ramis cicatricatis annulatis. Folia basi va- 
ginantia, graminea v. subulata. Flores racemosi, paniculati, v. spicati. 
Shrubs or large trees, confined to New Caledonia, Australia, and the New Zealand Islands, and abounding in the 
latter country, very scarce in the others. Leaves usually very narrow, grassy, sheathing, when falling away leaving 
ringed scars on the branches. Inflorescence racemose, spicate, or paniculate. Flowers bracteate, white. Calyw of 
five, hard, coriaceous leaves. Corolla with a broad tube and five spreading lobes, curved in at the point, quite 
glabrous. Stamens inserted on the corolla in the New Zealand species, hypogynous in the Australian and New Cale- 
donian. Ovary five-celled, with five glands at its base. Ovudes many, attached to a column which hangs down in 
each cell.—This fine genus forms a prominent feature in the New Zealand Flora, the species being very numerous, 
abundant in individuals, and occurring from the sea-coast to the mountain-tops, and both on the wet and dry 
coasts. Some of them are very difficult to distinguish specifically, others are well-marked. (Name from 8paxov, 
a dragon, and $vXXov, a leaf; from the analogy between this plant and Dracena, to which Labillardióre at one time 
thought it allied.) 
§ a. Flowers panicled. Bracts deciduous. Calyx much shorter than the tube of the corolla. (D. Menziesii has 
sometimes racemes.) 
l. Dracophyllum Zatifolium, A. Cunn.; arboreum, foliis 14-pedalibus concavis longissime lanceolato- 
subulatis subflexuosis (pro genere latis) serrulatis in vaginam glaberrimam gradatim dilatatis, panicula effusa 
nutante pilosa demum glabrata, floribus parvis, foliolis calycinis pubescentibus late ovatis, capsulis parvis. 
A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. Fl. Antarct. Epacris longifolia, Banks et Sol. MSS. et To. 
Haz. Northern Island; common in woods, Banks and Solander, etc. 
