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1. E. purpurascens, Br. An erect, tall, sparingly -branched shrub, 
6 ft. high ; branches tlexuosc, |-1 ft. long, densely clothed throughout with 
closely imbricating, sheathing, spreading, recurved, pungent leaves. Leaves 
-5- in. long, coriaceous, very convex, sheathing by their lower part, but attached 
by a small broad petiole, broadly ovate-cordate, suddenly contracting into 
the rigid patent needle-like tip, quite glabrous. Flowers very numerous, 
often one in the axil of every leaf for a large portion of the branches ; bracts 
and sepals 'ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pungent. Corolla \ in. long ; lobes 
ovate, acute. — E. pvnrjens, Lot. Mag. t. 844. 
Northern Island: Papakura, 18 miles from Auckland, Sinclair. A New South Wales 
plant, and I cannot but suspect introduced (like Stglidium graminifolium) into New 
Zealand, but Dr. Sinclair, with whom I had a good deal of correspondence on the subject, 
regarded it as indigenous. 
2. E. pattciflora, A. Rich.; — FI. N. Z. i. 166. A glabrous, erect, 
twiggy shrub, 1-2 ft. high, branches puberulous, stoutish, leafy. Leaves 
very coriaceous, suberect, imbricating, in. long, concave, broadly ovate 
or oblong-lanceolate, suddenly acuminate, obtuse at the tip, nerveless, quite 
smooth and glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers small, white, scarcely longer 
than the leaves, numerous towards the tips of the branches ; bracts very 
numerous, ovate, acute, closely imbricating in 5 or 6 ranks. Corolla with a 
very short tube, and patent, broad, rounded lobes. Capsule small. 
Northern and Middle Islands: on dry hills and in swampy grounds, Banks and 
Solander, etc. Common as far south as Nelson, very uear the Tasmanian E. virgaia. 
3. E. Sinclair!!, Hook./., n. sp. A foot high, much branched; branches 
stout, puberulous, leafy. Leaves erect, imbricating, J in. long, densely 
coriaceous, narrow lanceolate-oblong or oblong, obtuse, smooth and glabrous 
on both surfaces. Bracts, calyx, etc., as in E. pauciflora. 
Northern Island, Herb. Sinclair. Numerous fine specimens of this are in Sinclair’s 
Herbarium, but without ticket ; it resembles E. paucijlcra, but is a much less twiggy and more 
branched plant, with narrower, less concave not acuminate leaves. 
4. E. alpina, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 167. A small, alpine, tufted or 
straggling shrub, 6-10 in. high, much branched, erect or decumbent; 
branches puberulous. Leaves spreading or suberect, very coriaceous, \ in. 
long, broadly ovate, obtuse, glabrous and smooth on both surfaces. Flowers 
axillary towards the ends of the branches ; bracts and calvx-lobes broadly 
ovate, obtuse. Corolla not seen. 
Northern Island: base of Tongariro and Lake Taupo, Bidwill, Colenso. Middle 
Island : Southern Alps, growing with Pentachondra , Sinclair and Haast. A smaller and 
more straggling plant, than either of the preceding, with obtuse bracts and calyx-lobes ; very 
closely allied to the Tasmanian E. serpyl/ifolia, but the flowers are different, and leaves not 
mucronulate. 
7. ARCHERIA, Hook. f. 
Branched shrubs, with coriaceous, evergreen leaves. Flowers in the New 
Zealand species in terminal racemes. Bracts few or 0. Corolla as in Epucris. 
Capsule deeply 5-lobed. Seeds ascending from basilar or subbasilar placentae. 
This genus was established in the Tasmanian Flora, for a set of peculiar Epacridea , 
differing from Epacris in the absence of bracts, the usually more deeply lobed ovary, with 
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