Dracophyllum.] EPACRIDACEAE. TOT 
CAMPBELL IsLAND: Common near the sea, Hooker, T. Kirk! Cockayne! R. M. 
Laing ! B. C. Aston ! 
I now limit this species purely to the Campbell Island plant, of which there 
appears to be two forms. One has the margins of the leaves conspicuously ciliate and 
the upper surface densely pubescent, the other has slightly smaller and less pubescent 
leaves. The differences are so slight that it seems hardly worth while distinguishing 
them as varieties. 
12. D. arboreum Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiv (1902) 318. 
—A large closely branched shrub or small tree sometimes attaining 
a height of 30ft.; trunk short, thick; bark dark-brown ; branches 
fastigiately divided above. Leaves of juvenile specimens up to 8 or even 
15ft. high, much larger than those of the adult, often 8in. long by 7-31n. 
broad at the base, flat above, slightly convex beneath, more or less striate ; 
margins silky-tomentose above, less so beneath. Leaves of adult plants 
much smaller and narrower, 1-14-3 in. long, strict, erect; sheathing base 
4-1in. broad, not auricled nor truncate, but shortly narrowed into the 
blade, margins thin, ciliate with white spreading hairs; blade j4-7, in. 
broad, gradually narrowed into a sharp pungent point, rigid and coriace- 
ous, concave and more or less pubescent above, convex and almost 
glabrous beneath; margins ciliate with whitish silky hairs. Flowers in 
dense 3-6-flowered spike-like racemes 3—-lin. long. Bracts with a broadly 
ovate sheathing base with silky-white margins. Flowers much as in 
D. scoparium.—D. latifolium var. ciliolatum Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1867) 
736 (juvenile state). D. scoparium Hook. f. var. major Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 425. 
'*- Mar. paludosum Cheesem.—Smaller, 3-6 ft. high when adult, and often flowering 
when less than 6 in. Leaves 1-14 in., not longer nor wider in the young state. Racemes 
short, 2-4-flowered; flowers rather smaller.— D. rosmarinifolium Buch. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. vii (1875) 338 (not of Forst.). D. paludosum Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xxxiv (1912) 318. D. scoparium Hook. ae paludosum Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 425. 
CHATHAM IsnANDS: D. arboreum and var. paludosum both not uncommon, the 
latter chiefly in swamps, Dieffenbach, H. H. Travers! J. D. Enys! F. A. D. Cox 
and Cockayne ! 
In the first edition of this work I treated this plant as a variety of D. scoparvum, to 
which it is certainly very closely allied. But the remarkable juvenile stage that 
D. arboreum passes through, which has no counterpart in D. scopariwm, compels me 
to treat the two plants as distinct. Whether I am correct in placing Cockayne’s 
D. paludosum under D. arborewm is another matter. If it is argued that the existence 
of a distinct juvenile stage in D. arborewm, coupled with its greater size, is sufficient 
to keep the two plants apart, then I would suggest that paludosum should be treated 
as a variety of D. scoparium, the close affinity of which is generally admitted. 
T3. D. subuiatum Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 50.— An erect shrub 
2-6 it. high, with long slender twiggy branches leafy at the tips; 
bark dark red-brown or almost black. Leaves small, strict or flexuose, 
3-lin. long, rarely more; sheathing base #,-;4,in. broad, truncate or 
auricled at the tip ; blade very narrow, 4,-7, in. wide at the base, pungent, 
rigid and coriaceous, concave or flat above, convex beneath, triquetrous 
at the tip, glabrous on the margins, most minutely serrulate. Leaves 
of young plants larger, sometimes #-14 in. long by 4, in. wide at the base, 
spreading or recurved. Racemes small, lateral, often crowded along the 
branches, 2—6-flowered. Flowers small, 4-tin. long. Bracts with broadly 
ovate sheathing bases and erect subulate tips. Sepals usually exceeding 
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