252 DRACOPHYLLUM LATIFOLIUM. 
bases, gradually tapering into long points which are often droopin 
margins, serrulate or crenulate. Flowers very small, 4in. long, < a 
densely crowded, rigid, erect, conical panicles, 6in. to 18in. long; prima: 
branched from ae base, rigid, jointed to the stout base, lin. to 1 
Calyx: Sepals, five, ovate, obtuse; corolla shortly campanulate, wi 
reflexed lobes; stamens, ae inaeied at the mouth of the corolla, fi 
very short; ovary five-celled, with five erect ovate scales at the a oi 
a five- belied capsule; seeds numerous. 
_ExprLanaTion oF Piate CXXIII. 
Dracophyllum latifolium, Hook. f. Flowering specimen, natura! 
1 and 2. Flower, natural size and magnified. 3. Corolla, laid open. 4 
5. Capsule, natural size and magnified. 6. Transverse section of | 
magnified. - 
