700 EPACRIDACEAE. [Archerva. 
W. Townson! Te Araroa, near the East Cape, Bishop Williams! base of Hikurangi 
Mountain, Gerald Williams ! Whanakao Mountain, and source of the Keru River, East 
Cape, V. Sherwood | 500-2800 ft. January—February. 
The large concave bracts entirely hide the young racemes, but fall off as soon as 
the flowers commence to expand. 
2. A. Traversii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 180.—A large 
much-branched shrub 6—15 ft. high ; bark dark-brown ; branches spreading, 
Leaves scattered, spreading, 4-4 in. long, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, thick and coriaceous, quite glabrous, smooth and shining above, 
midrib distinct beneath ; margins recurved, often ciliolate. | Racemes ter- 
minal, 3-1 in. long, 8-15-flowered ; rhachis and pedicels pubescent. Bracts 
oblong, membranous, caducous, falling away as soon as the flowers commence 
to open. Sepais oblong, obtuse, striate; margins membranous, ciliolate. 
Corolla $-¢in. long, campanulate, reddish; lobes short, spreading. Style 
very short, stout. Capsule minute, depressed, Jy in. diam.—Oheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 417. 
Var. australis Hook. f. I.c. 735.—Stouter. Leaves longer and broader, 4—3 in., 
elliptical-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or subacute. Flowers rather longer. 
Souty IsLanp: Nelson—Aorere Vailey, W. 7. L. Travers ; Mount Arthur Plateau, 
PT. F.C. ; Brunner Range, W. Townson ! Canterbury and Westland—Poulter River and 
Upper Rakaia, Cockayne ; Bealey Gorge and Arthur’s Pass, 7. Kirk ! Cockayne! T. F.C. ; 
Browning’s Pass, Haast ! Rangitaipo, Petrie! Mount Arrowsmith, Cockayne and R. M. 
Laing | Copeland Pass, Cockayne. Otago—Lake Wanaka, Buchanan ! Clinton Valley, 
Reece and Hollyford Valleys, Petrie / Routeburn, Poppelwell. Var. australis : 
Mackinnon’s Pass, F. G. Gibbs! common in the sounds of the south-west of Otago, 
flector and Buchanan! Srewarr Isnanp: Mount Anglem, 7. Kirk ! Sea-level to 
4000 ft. January—February. 
See lian Tans 579: 676 
6. DRACOPHYLLUM Labill. j Ken 
a 
Erect or prostrate shrubs, or more rarely small trees; branches ringed 
with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 
branches or imbricate along them, broad and sheathing at the base, above 
that suddenly contracted into a very narrow-linear rigid or grassy usually 
concave blade. Flowers small, white or red, in terminal or lateral panicles 
or racemes or spikes, rarely solitary. Sepals 5, ovate or lanceolate, per- 
sistent. Corolla cylindric or campanulate ; lobes 5, spreading, imbricate, 
often incurved at the tips. Stamens hypogynous, or the filaments adnate 
to the corolla-tube; anthers usually included in the tube, attached at or 
near the middle. Hypogynous scales 5, free. Ovary 5-celled ; style in- 
serted in a depression at the top of the ovary; stigma small, or larger and 
5-lobed; ovules numerous, attached to a decurved placenta in the inner 
angle of the cell. Capsule 5-ceiled, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds numerous. 
In addition to the 20 species found in New Zealand, all of which are endemic, there 
are 10 in Australia and Tasmania, and 5 in New Caledonia. The student will find 
the species exceedingly difficult of discrimination, especially those of section B, where 
they appear to pass into one another by small gradations, and where the chief dis- 
tinctive characters available are the highly variable ones of size, habit, and foliage. 
A. Flowers panicled. Calyx small, much shorter than the corolla-tube, and always much 
less than the ripe capsule. 
Shrub or small tree 8-20ft. high. Leaves 10-18in., 1-ljin. 
pete at the base. Panicle terminal, 6-18in. long. Flowers “:\ 
esa diam. Capsules zy in. a _ rx .- bh. D. latifotium. 
Similar to the preceding but much stouter. Leaves 10-24 in., 
1-2 in. wide. Panicles denser. Capsules larger, Jin. diam. .. 2. D. Traversii. 
