Epacridea.) FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 171 
This small species was first described from Campbell's Island specimens, which are much less pubescent than 
those from Chatham Island. In the latter the leaves are beautifully margined with white down. Mr. Colenso’s 
specimens are quite glabrous. In general characters the foliage resembles that of D. Lessonianum, but is more rigid, 
and the leaves are shorter (the longest 2 inches); the sheaths are not abruptly truncate, and the raceme is very 
short, 4-3 inch, and consists of a dense club-shaped spike of numerous bracts, and three or four small flowers. The 
bracts and calycine leaves are ovate, acuminate, more or less silky and woolly or glabrous, and the corolla is small, 
2 lines long, with a short tube and broad ovate lobes. 
12. Dracophyllum subulatum, Hook. fil. ; fruticosum, erectum, ramis fuscis gracilibus sparse foliatis, 
foliis fasciculatis e vagina lata ciliata abrupte angustatis ciliatis rigidis subtriquetris 1—3-uncialibus, racemis 
folis brevioribus v. sequilongis lateralibus ramulisve brevissimis terminalibus pauci(2—4)-floris, floribus 
plerumque congestis parvis, bracteis foliolisque calycinis late ovatis acuminatis corollam superantibus, 
coroll; tubo brevi, lobis latis. 77. Antaret. p. 50. 
Has. Northern Island. Barren plains at Tewaiiti, base of Tongariro, ete., Colenso. 
A distinct-looking little bushy twiggy plant, with very slender stems, 3-6 feet high, sometimes drooping 
branches, and tufts of small leaves, never an inch long, usually about 4, sometimes only + inch. The spikes are 
small in proportion, of two to four flowers, surrounded with bractese which exceed the corolla in length; sometimes 
the racemes are converted into dense ovoid masses of leaves, probably owing to the puncture of an insect. 
13. Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium, Br.; fruticulus, caule erecto v. decumbente fastigiatim ramoso, 
folus 3-13-uncialibus erectis rigidis coriaceis subulatis obtusis dorso convexis striatis supra canaliculatis, 
vagina latiuscula ciliata, floribus solitariis erectis breve pedicellatis multibracteatis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis 
foliolisque calycinis apice angustatis obtusis, corollz brevis lobis late ovatis. Brown, Prodr. p. 556 in nota. 
A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. Hpacris rosmarinifolia, Forst. Prodr. 
Has. Middle Island. Dusky Bay, Forster, Lyall. Nelson, tops of the mountains, Bidwill. 
A. remarkably distinct little species, though at first sight resembling a stunted form of D. suõulatum. Branches 
prostrate, ascending, woody, fasciculate, 3-8 inches long, sometimes depressed. Leaves very short, 1-12 inch long, 
but comparatively broad, rigid, blunt, convex and striated at the back. Flowers solitary in all Forster's, Dr. Lyall's, 
and Mr. Bidwill’s specimens, though the inflorescence must be regarded as a reduced raceme. Peduncle short, erect, 
covered with the ovate bractece, which, as well as the calyx-leaflets, have contracted blunt points. 
14. Dracophyllum reeurvum, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus erectus, robustus, ramosus, foliis ad apices foliorum 
plurimis recurvis 1-13-uncialibus e vagina dilatata linearibus obtusis rigidis apices versus angustatis supra 
canaliculatis subtus convexis, floribus in racemos terminales ovoideos dense congestis bracteatis, bracteis 
foliolisque calycinis late ovatis acuminatis. FU. Antarct. p. 50. 
Has. Mountains of the Northern Island. Tongariro, Bidwill. Mount Hikurangi and top of the 
Ruahine mountains, Colenso. 
One of the most distinct species of the genus, with the spreading recurved foliage of D. latifolium and D. 
sguarrosum, but very different from these in size and inflorescence. Stems stout, 6-10 inches high, branched. 
Leaves all crowded towards the ends of the branches, numerous, patent, recurved, rigid, linear, narrowed to an 
obtuse point, 1-14 inch long, concave along the upper surface. Fowers in dense, erect, terminal, ovoid heads, 
small, surrounded by ovate acuminate bracts. 
