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EPACRIDE^. 



Dracophyllum scoparium. 

 J. Hook. Flor. Antarctic, i. 47, t. 33 ; Flor. Nov. Zeeland. i. 170. 



Common in the woods of Chatham- and Pitt-Island ; found also 

 in New Zealand and Campbell-Island. ■ 



This plant attains, according to Mr. Travers's notes, sometimes a 

 height of 40'. In Australia and Tasmania solely Eichea pandani- 

 folia, Cystanthe procera, Monotoca elliptica (a genus embracing only 

 two' or perhaps even only one genuine species) and exceptionally 

 Trochocarpa laurina and Epacris heteronema rival it in height. In 

 New Zealand possibly other Dracophylla may under favorable cir- 

 cumstances attain similar dimensions, as several are showing a 

 tendency to an arborescent growth. 



Leaves of the young, plant attaining a length of nearly 1' and a 

 width of almost 1" ; these are very gradually attenuated and thus 

 resemble those of D. verticillatum ; as observed by Mr. Travers they 

 become shorter with the growth of the tree ; the leaves of the 

 flowering branches inclusive of their clasping base f-3" long. Spikes 

 containing not rarely as many as eight flowers. Pedicels often 

 glabrous. Clasping part of bracteae with exception of the margin 

 smooth. Sepals ovate- or narrow-lanceolate, about as long as the 

 corolla-tube, gradually pointed. Corolla 3-4'" long ; its lobes half 

 or nearly as long as the tube, deltoid, acuminate. Style ^-1^'" long. 

 Capsule measuring nearly 1^'", globose, with depressed vertex 



The number of the species of this genus is evidently over- 

 estimated. 



An undescribed species of Dracophyllum with the habit of Eichea 

 scoparia, very distinct from D. verticillatum (D. montanum, E. Br.), 

 occurs amongst the many new plants discovered by Mons. Pancher 

 in New Caledonia and will be elucidated by Mons. Adolphe Bro- 

 gniart in his forthcoming work on the vegetation of that island with 

 other Epacridese as yet new to science. 



Cyathodes acerosa. 

 E. Brown, Prodrom. Flor. Nov. Holland. 540 ; Eoem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. 

 iv. 473 ; All. Cunn. in Annals of Nat. Hist. ii. 47 ; Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 776 ; 

 Cand. Prodr. vii. 741 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 163 ; C. Oxycedrus, 

 E. Br. 1. c. 540; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 164 j Flor. Tasm. i. 246; 

 0. parvifolia, E. Br. 1. c. 540 ; J. Hodk. Fl. Nov. Zeel. i. 164 ; Flor. Tasm. 

 i. 246 ; C. divaricata, J. Hook. Fl. Tasm. i. 246, tab. 74 B ; Epacris ar- 

 borea, Murray, Syst. Veget. 198 ; E. juniperina, Forst. Charaot. Gener. 



