racophyllum. | EPACRIDACEAR. 701 
hrub 10-20 ft. high. Leaves 6-12 in., 4-} in. wide at the base. 
Panicles small, lateral below the leaves, drooping, 2-3 in. long. 
Flowers in. long . 3. D. Townsoni. 
mall much - branched shrub, stony often Naiseumi bent below. 
Leaves 3-8 in. pe Panicles lateral, ae 3-6 in. long. 
Flowers large, } in. long .. .. 4 D. Menziesit. 
mall much-branched shrub. ee 14-43 in. long. Panicles 
terminal, 14-4in. long. Flowers }-}in. .. a .. 5. D. strictum. 
3. Flowers in spike-like racemes or solitary. Calyx almost equalling the corolla-tube or 
longer than it, always completely enclosing the ripe capsule. 
* Flowers in spike-like racemes. 
Shrub 4-l5ft. Leaves patent and recurved, 14-5in. long. 
Racemes lateral, 4-8-flowered . 6. D. Sinclairii. 
Jhrub 1-3 ft. Leaves patent and recurved, 4 Ih i in. long, obtuse. 
Flowers in terminal bracteate spikes : 7. D. recurvum. 
ueaves erect, 3-10in. long, sheathing base 3-3 oa eee 
Racemes 6-l5-flowered .. 8. D. longifolium. 
Leaves erect, 1-5 in. long, sheathing ‘base Li in. wide, truncate 
or auricled at the tip. “Racemes 4-12. flowered ee . 9% D. Urvilleanum, 
Leaves In many series, erect and appressed, very stout, 
polished, glabrous, ? 1 in. long. Racemes 3-6-flowered .. 10. D. Pearsoni. 
Leaves not passing through a juvenile stage different td the 
adult, erect, #-3in. long, siiky-pubescent above, margins 
ciliate with white hairs. Racemes 3-6-flowered ll. D. scoparium. 
Leaves of juvenile plants larger than those of the adults and . 
broader, 4-Sin. long, those of adults 1-3in. long; upper 
surface and margins silky-pubescent Pe eA 12. D. arboreum. 
Very siender., Leaves small, erect, glabrots, 4-1 in. long. ( 
Racemes 3—5-flowered .. . 13. D. subulatum. _- ; 
Stout, spreading, much branched. "Leaves “spreading, 1-24 in. j 
long, 4-4 in. broad at the base, gradually tapering, evenly 1 
pubescent on both surfaces. Racemes 3-5-flowered .. 14. D. pubescens. 
** Flowers usually solitary. 
Decumbent. Leaves spreading, 3-2 in. long, 4 in. broad at the 
base, gradually tapering, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers lateral, { 
solitary ad hy Hs st .. 15. D. Kirki. 
Erect. be age 4- 2 in. long (2-4in. in var. acicularifoliwm) ; 
blade 5-7 im. broad, pungent. Flowers lateral ny .- 16. D. uniftorum. 
Stems long and creeping or short and tufted and forming 
cushion-like masses. Leaves erect and appressed. Flowers 
almost hidden by the leaves , Ny Pet .. 17. D. politum., 
Depressed or prostrate, rarely suberect. Leaves 4—] in., obtuse. 
Flowers usually terminating short lateral branchlets .. .. 18. D.resmarini foleume 
Small, prostrate, laxly or closely branched. Leaves imbricate, 
4-+ in. long, linear-subulate from a broad ovate base. Flower 
terminal ‘ .. 19. D. prosiratum. 
Small, forming densely compacted tufts a few inches across. 
Leaves closely imbricate, fo-4 im. long, tips subulate, usually 
obtuse 4 es ie 4 “8 .. 20. D. muscordes. 
1. D. latifolium A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 412.—A shrub or small 
tree 8-20 ft. high or more, with a trunk 4-121im. diam.; young plants 
forming slender erect unbranched rods with a tuft of grassy leaves at the 
top; old ones much branched, the branches often whorled, curving out- 
wards and then ascending, giving the tree a candelabrum-like appearance, 
closely ringed with the sears of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the 
ae of the branches, squarrose, spreading and recurved, 10-24 in. long, 
1-l4 in. broad at the dilated sheathing base, gradually tapering into very 
oe slender points, quite glabrous, coriaceous, striate, concave or rarely 
nearly flat, margins very minutely serrulate. Panicle terminal, 6-18 in. long, 
much and closely branched, linear-oblong, erect in flower, inclined in fruit, 
