Cyathodes. | EPACRIDACEAE. 695 
2. C. robusta Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. FI. ures) 177. ete of C. acerosa, 
but much stouter. Leaves spreading, 4-3in. long, }-$1n. broad, narrow 
linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute and callous at the 
tip, rigid and coriaceous, 5-l1-nerved beneath, the nerves often branching 
on the outer side; margins usually recurved. Flowers $in. long, solitary 
and axillary, more abundantly produced than in C. acerosa; peduncles 
curved, clothed with numerous broad obtuse imbricating bracts. Corolla- 
tube hardly longer har the calyx-lobes, its divisions glabrous within. 
Berry large, globose, 4-4 in. diam,—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fi. (1906) 411. 
C. acerosa var, latifolia Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 163; F. Muell. Veg. 
Chath. Is. (1864) 43. 
CuaTHAmM IsLanps: Apparently not uncommon, Dieffenbach, H. H. Travers / 
G. Mair ! Cockayne and Cox ! Rutitira. 
Distinguished from C. acerosa, to which it is closely allied, by the larger broader 
leaves, which are not at all pungent, but end in obtuse callous tips, and by the larger 
fruit. 
3. C. empetrifolia Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 164.—A small depressed 
or prostrate heath-like shrub, with slender wiry tomentose branches 4—18 in. 
long, ascending at the tips. Leaves numerous, OT erect or ascending 
when young, spreading or reflexed when old, }—-4in. long, linear, obtuse, 
convex above, glaucous beneath, glabrous or puboscetitcor “hoary ; ; margins 
recurved, ciliate. Flowers small, axillary or terminal, solitary or 2-4 
clustered at the top of the peduncle. Pedun@le short, curved, clothed 
with imbricating ovate obtuse bracts. Calyx-lobes short, ovate, cillate. 
Corolla-tube about as long as the pce lobes 5, ovate Janceolate, acute, 
glabrous. Drupe small, ovoid, ;4,in. long, 3—5-celled—Handb. N.Z. F l. 
(1864) 177; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 412. Androstoma empetri- 
folia Hook. f. Fl. Antarct, 1 (1844) 44, t. 30. | 
NortH AND SoutH IsLanps, STEWART ISLAND, AUCKLAND AND CAMPPELL ISLANDS : 
Abundant in hilly and ORT CSS districts from Cape Colville and Rotorua south- 
wards. Ascends to 4500 ft.; descends to sea-level in Stewart Island and in the 
Auckland {slands. Ratios —January. 
4. C. Colensoi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 177.—Stems stout, 
decumbent or prostrate below ; branches 4-18 in. high, erect oF peCeHEDR, 
leafy, pubescent at the tips. Leaves erect or erecto-patent, +-41n. long, 
linear-oblong or narrow obovate-oblong, obtuse or shortly mucronate, 
glabrous, convex above, glaucous beneath, with 3 or 5 stout parallel ne 
the outer of which often branch towards the edge of the leaf; margins 
often dilated and membranous towards the tip of the leaf, finely ciliolate. 
Flowers in 3-5-flowered short and stout terminal racemes ; bracts 2 or 3, 
broadly ovate, obtuse. Calyx-lobes concave, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla- 
tube longer than the calyx; lobes densely bearded within. Drupe globose, 
Lin, diam., white or red.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 412; Ill. N.Z. 
Fl, 11 (1914) t. 125. Leucopogon Colensoi Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 
165. 
NortH Istanp: Lake Taupo, Tongariro, and Ruapehu, Colenso/ G. Mair ! 
H. Hill! Ruahine Range, Colenso/ Kaimanawa and Tararua Mountains, B. C. Aston / 
SoutH Istanp: Not uncommon on the mountains of Nelson and Canterbury, rare 
and local in Otago. 2000-5000 ft. December—January. 
This was originally placed in Leucopogon, and in many of its characters it approaches 
that genus, although the habit is that of Cyathodes. 
