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XLII. ERICE.E. 
[. Areheria . 
basilar placentas, and was divided into two sections, one with axillary flowers and long styles, 
the other (to which the New Zealand species belong) with racemed flowers and short styles. 
Leaves 3-5 in., narrow linear or linear-lanceolate - . . 1.1?. Traversii. 
Leaves 1 in., broadly obovate or oblong 2 . E. racemosa. 
1. A. Traversii, Hook. /., n. up. A small (?) shrub with slender 
spreading branches. Leaves loosely set, very spreading, in. long, narrow 
linear-lanceolate, acute, quite glabrous, smooth and shining on both surfaces, 
margin recurved, midrib very thick below. Flowers small, in vefy short, ter- 
minal, puberulous racemes. Bracts few, deciduous, oblong, obtuse. Sepals 
oblong ; margins membranous. Corolla not seen. Capsule minute. 
Middle Island : woods, Aorere valley, alt. 1400 ft., “ not observed on the Nelson side 
of the valley,” Travers. 
2. A. racemosa, Hook./.; — Epacris racemosa, FI. N. Z. i. 167. A 
shrub. Branches very slender. Leaves scattered in fascicles or almost 
whorled, very spreading, 1 in. long, i broad, elliptic- or obovate-oblong, 
acute, flat, nerveless. Kaceme in. long, downy ; bracts and calyx-lobes 
oblong ; margins membranous. Corolla in. diam. ; tube short, broad ; 
lobes broad, ovate, obtuse. 
Great Barrier Island, Rough. 
8. DRACOPHYLLUM, Lab. 
Shrubs or trees, sometimes prostrate or tufted. Leaves long, rigid or 
grassy, usually crowded at the ends of the branchlets, their bases broad, 
sheathing, suddenly contracting into a long subulate, usually concave, very 
narrow blade, which tapers from the base to the tip. — Flowers in axillary or 
terminal branched panicles racemes or spikes, rarely solitary ; pedicel bracteate. 
Sepals 5, ovate or lanceolate, persistent, longer or shorter than the corolla. 
Corolla tubular or campauulate, usually white; lobes 5, spreading, ovate or 
lanceolate, obtuse, their tips more or less inflexed. Anthers 5, sessile at the 
mouth of the corolla. Disk of 5 erect scales. Ovary 5 -or 6-celled ; style 
shortish, stout ; ovules numerous in each cell, attached to a pendulous pla- 
centa. Capsule shorter than the sepals, 5- or 6-celled, 5- or 6-valved. 
A large genus in New Zealand, having several representatives in Tasmania, temperate 
Australia and New Caledonia. 
1. Leaves patent or recurved ( or suberect in 3). Flowers panicled or spiked. 
Flowers in terminal panicles, 8-16 in. long. Corolla ^ in. . . 1. it. latifolium. 
Flowers in lateral panicles, 3-6 in. long. Corolla k in. . . . 2. B. Menziesii.\ 
Flowers in terminal panicles, 2-4 in. long. Corolla 3 in. . . 3. B. strictum. 
Flowers few', spiked. Leaves 2-5 in., pungent 4. B. squarrosum. 
Flowers in capitate spikes. Leaves f-1 in., obtuse .... 5. D. recurvum. 
2. Leaves erect, with acicular or pungent tips. Flowers spiked (solitary in 9). 
Leaves 4-9 in., pubescent or glabrate. Sheath 3—3 in. broad . 6 . B. longifolium. 
Leaves 1-4 in., glabrous. Sheath ^-3 in. broad 7- B. Urvilleanum. 
Leaves i-f in., glabrous or puberulous. Flowers 2 or 3 . . . 8 . 1). subu/atum. 
Leaves | in., glabrous or puberulous. Flower solitary . . . 9. it. uniflorum. 
3. Leaves erect, not pungent, obtuse at the very tip. Flowers solitary or 2- or S-spiked. 
Leaves |~1 in. Flowers lateral 10. B. rosmarinifolium. 
Leaves Yjy in. Flower solitary, terminal 11. B. muscoides. 
