170 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. LEpacridee. 
racemis 4-8-floris lateralibus brevibus vix uncialibus, floribus parvis, bracteis lobisque calycinis late ovatis 
acuminatis corollam superantibus, corolla parva, lobis late ovatis. 
Has. Northern Island. Auckland, Stephenson. Fast coast, Ruahine mountains, etc., Colenso. 
A remarkably distinct shrubby species, 6—8 feet high, which may be recognized at once by its very slender 
flexible branches, and almost filiform leaves, 5-8 inches long, arising from comparatively very broad nearly square 
sheaths, with membranous margins, truncated or almost two-lobed at the top; the leaves are rigid, not flexuose, 
but erect, scarcely half a line broad, grooved on the upper surface for half-way up, and then three-angled to the 
tip. Racemes about an inch long, or less, of six to eight very small flowers, 4 inch long. Bracts and calyx lobes 
ovate, acuminate, as long as the corolla, whose lobes are ovate.—In many respects this resembles the following species, 
but the leaves are twice as long, and the bracts are not furnished with such long subulate points. 
9. Dracophyllum Zessonianum, A. Rich.; fruticosum, ramis castaneis, foliis ramulis breviusculis 
fasciculatis 2-3-uncialibus angustissime lineari-subulatis supra planiusculis, vaginis elongatis brevibusve 
abrupte truncatis ciliatis, spicis 13-2-uncialibus 5-8-floris, floribus subremotis, bracteis foliisque calycinis 
corolla longioribus gradatim longe acuminatis pungentibus, corollee lobis oblongo-lanceolatis. 4. Rich. Flora. 
A. Cunn. Prodr. Fl. Antarct. Ardisia longifolia, 8 attenuata, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ie. 
Var. B. robustum ; folis brevioribus, spica pauciflora. D. robustum, 77. Antaret. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; frequent from Cook's Straits northward, Banks and Solander, etc. 
Best distinguished from the former, with which it has many characters in common, by the generally plane 
upper surface of the leaves, which are only 2-3 inches long, by the less ciliated sheaths, and by the long acuminated 
points of the bracts, which project beyond the flower. The leaves are generally borne on short lateral branches, and 
not upon long very slender stems, as in D. filifolium. The racemes are long, many-flowered, 13-2 inches long, with 
the flowers somewhat distichously arranged ; they are longer and the flowers smaller than in D. filjfolium. The 
var. robustum has more rigid leaves and shorter racemes, in which respects it approaches even more nearly the 
following. 
10. Dracophyllum Urvilleanum, A. Rich. ; fruticosum, ramis atris, foliis ramulis brevibus fasciculatis 
24-3-uncialibus strictis angustissime lineari-subulatis supra canaliculatis, vaginis brevibus ciliatis abrupte 
truncatis, racemis brevibus 3-5-floris, floribus congestis, bracteis foliolisque calycinis late ovatis breviter 
acuminatis, corolle parvæ segmentis ovato-oblongis. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn, Prodr. Fl. Antarct. 
Haz. Northern and Middle Islands. Tasman’s Bay, J’ Urville. Bay of Islands, on the banks of the 
Keri-Keri River, above the falls, Cunningham. Nelson, Bidwill. 
I have again, since describing this plant in the ‘Flora Antarctica, examined an extensive suite of specimens, 
and am still inclined to consider this as being quite a distinct plant from .D. Lessonianum, though it requires some 
care to discriminate them ; on the other hand, it is so much nearer D. jilifoliwm in all characters, except the length 
of the leaf, that I doubt these two proving distinct, though so different-looking at first sight. Stems slender, always 
very black in my Bay of Islands specimens. Leaves quite similar to those of D. Lessonianum, but distinctly chan- 
nelled. Racemes small, short (4 inch long), few, three- to five-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, shorter 
than the flowers, which are as small as and quite similar to those of D. jiljfolium. 
11. Dracophyllum scoparium, Hook. fil.; arbuscula, ramis ramulisque fasciculatis strictis, foliis e basi 
vaginante gradatim angustatis subulatis strictis 1-2 unc. longis rigidis margine pubescentibus v. glabratis 
supra medium planiusculis dein ad apicem trigonis, spicis brevibus dense sub-4-floris, bracteis foliolisque 
calycinis corollam brevem superantibus sericeis glabratisve, corolla lobis brevibus late ovatis. FU. Antarct. 
p. 41. t. 83. 
Haz. Northern Island. Top of Ruahine Mountains, Colenso. Chatham Island, Diefenbach. 
