704 EPACRIDACEAE. ; J [ Dracophyllum. 
6. D. Sinelairii Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 421.—A tall erect 
branching shrub, usually 4-8 ft. high, rarely taller and forming a small tree 
12-20 ft. in height; bark brownish-black. Leaves spreading and recurved, 
suberect when young, often clothing the branches for a considerable length, 
13-5 in. long, 4-4 in. wide at the sheathing base, which is not truncate nor 
auricled and not very much wider than the blade, gradually narrowed into 
long acuminate points, coriaceous or somewhat grassy, concave ; margins 
finely serrulate, ciliolate at the base. Racemes lateral, 1-2 in. long, 4-8- 
flowered, usually fascicled along the branches some distance below the 
tip. Bracts persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers z in. long, 
white. Sepals almost equalling the corolla, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. 
Anthers included. Style short, stout. Capsule small, concealed by the 
persistent sepals.—D. squarrosum Hook. f. #l. Antarct. i (1844) 48 (not of 
R. Br.); Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 169; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 181. 
Nort Istanp: From the North Cape as far as the Hast Cape, but often local, 
usually near the sea. Ascends to 2500 ft. Flowers most of the year. 
Hooker’s name is most appropriate, but unfortunately it is preoccupied by an 
Australian species (D. squarrosum RB. Br. Prody. (1810) 556). This was made the type 
of the genus Sphenotoma by Don, but was reunited with Dracophyilum by Bentham 
in the * Flora Australiensis.”’ 
7. D. reeurvum Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 50.—A small rather 
stout much-branched procumbent or prostrate shrub 6in. to 2 or 3 ft. 
high ; bark blackish-brown ; branches naked, ringed with the scars of the 
fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branches, spreading and 
recurved, 3-13 in. long; sheathing base membranous, 4-4 in. broad, cilio- 
late, suddenly narrowed into a rigid and coriaceous linear-subulate usually 
much recurved lamina, which is concave on the upper surface and almost 
keeled beneath, tip obtuse, margins minutely serrulate. Flowers + in. 
long, in short and stout terminal bracteate spikes $-lin. long; bracts 
numerous, large, persistent, almost concealing the flowers, base broad and 
foliaceous, tip short, subulate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, e’most as 
long as the corolla-tube, ciliolate. Corolla narrow-campanul +; lobes 
short, ovate-triangular, acute. Anthers included. Style very short. 
Capsule small, $in. long, shorter than the sepals.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 
171; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 181. D. rubrum Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xx (1888) 200. D. tenuicaulis Col. lc. xxii (1890) 476. D. brachy- 
phylum and D. varium Col. lc. xxviii (1896) 602, 604. D. brachycladum 
Col. l.c. xxxi (1899) 275. 
NortH IJIstanp: Mount Hikurangi, East Cape district, Colenso / slopes of 
Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, and Ruapehu, and the central voleanic plateau generally, 
Bidwill, Colenso! G. Mair, 7. Kirk! T. F. C., Cockayne, and others; Ruahine 
Mountains, Colenso! H. Hill! Petrie! B. C. Aston / Kaimanawa Mountains, Colenso / 
B. C. Aston! and others. 
_ Easily distinguished by the small size, recurved leaves, and short dense terminal 
spikes with foliaceous bracts. I have examined the type specimens of Mr. Colenso’s 
new species preserved in his herbarium, but fail to see how they can be separated even 
as varieties. | 
8. D. longifolium R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 556.—Very variable in stature, 
sometimes a shrub from 4 to 8 ft. high, at others forming a small tree 12 
to 25 ft. with a trunk 6-15 in. diam. ; bark black; branches slender, erect, 
naked below. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branches, erect, or 
spreading when young, strict, 3-10 in. long, narrow linear-subulate ; 
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