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Wir. Lessonianum *Cheesem.—Branches stouter. Leaves 13-3 in. long, strict, flat 
above, convex beneath. Racemes 6—12-flowered; flowers usually larger.—D. Lesson- 
lanum A. Rich. Fl. Nouv, Zel. (1832) 223; A. Cunn. Precur, (1838) n. 416; Hook. f. 
#1. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 170. Some forms of this approach D. longifolium very closely. 
Var. montanum Cheesem.—Smaller and stouter, often densely branched. _ Leaves 
¢-2 in. long, erect or spreading, broad at the base and gradually narrowed into the 
sheath, which is not auricled above. Flowers in stout terminal or lateral spike-like 
racemes 3—lin. long; bracts broad, concave. ‘This is allied to D. scoparium, and was 
included in it by Hooker, but the leaves are quite glabrous. An pe 
Nortu anp Soutn Isuanps, Stewart Istanp: Var a, abundant on dry hills from 
the North Cape te-Nelson; var. filrfolium, from the Bay of Islands to Wellington, 
ascending to 4500ft. on Mount Egmont and the Ruahine Mountains, &c.; var. 
Lessonianum, from Rotorua southwards to Stewart Island, usually in mountain 
districts; var. montanum, Mount Hikurangi, Tongariro and Ruapehu, Ruahine 
Mountains, Tararua Mountains, and apparently not uncommon in the mountains of 
the South Island, from 2500 to 4500 ft. 
Since the first edition of this work was published I have received much addi- 
tional information and material respecting the varieties included under the name of 
D. Urvilleanum. No doubt some botanists will prefer to look upon the varieties as 
distinct species; but on the whole I am convinced that it is best to treat them as a 
group composed. of closely allied and highly variable forms. 
' 10. D. Pearsoni 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 223.— 
Apparently a stout erect much-branched shrub ; branches with the leaves 
on nearly }in. diam. Leaves numerous, close-set, densely imbricating, 
erect and appressed to the branch, ?-1 in. long; sheathing base } in. wide, 
not auricled nor truncate at the tip, margins ciliate; blade 54, in. wide at 
the base, linear-subulate, pungent, rounded on the back, flat or convex 
in front, smooth and polished, glabrous, margins minutely denticulate. 
Flowers small, fin. long, in dense 3-6-flowered spike-like racemes 4 in. 
long. Sepals ovate, acuminate, rather shorter than the corolla-tube, 
margins ciliate. Corolla-lobes ovate-triangular, acute. Capsule obovoid, 
included within the persistent calyx-lobes.— Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 424. 
STEWART IstaAND: Not uncommon from almost sea-level to 2500 ft. Mount 
Anglem and Smith’s Lookout, 7. Kirk! locality doubtful, Pearson / Port Pegasus, 
Mount Remarkable, and many other localities, Cockayne. 
This appears to differ from D. Urvilleanum var. Lessonianum in the more numerous 
densely imbricating closely appressed leaves, but further specimens may prove it to be 
a form of that plant. 
HH. D. seoparium Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 46, t. 33.—A densely 
branched shrub 4-8 ft. high ; bark dark-brown or nearly black. Branches 
very numerous, stout, rigid, erect; ultimate branchlets more slender, but 
still strict and erect., Leaves very densely crowded, erect, brownish- 
green, }-ljin. long; sheathing base }+4in. broad, thin, striate, not 
truncate nor auricled above; lamina 4,5 in. broad at the base, gradu- 
ally narrowed upwards into a pungent triquetrous apex, concave above 
and with the margins silky-pubescent, convex beneath and glabrous. 
Flowers white, about fin. long, densely packed in 3-6-flowered racemes 
or spikes. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, ciliate on the margins. 
Sepals ovate, acuminate, ciliate, about equalling the corolla-tube. Corolla- 
lobes short, triangular, acute. Capsule broadly obovate, included within 
the persistent calyx-lobes.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 170. D. Urvilleanum 
var. scoparium Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 182 (in part). 
