ingly natural one, Richea, Br., being its nearest ally and indeed its representative in Tasmania, whence Mr. Gunn has lately sent a splendid new species, probably the most magnificent plant in the whole Natural Order.
Plate XXXIII. Fig. 1, a flower surrounded by the bracteæ; fig. 2, the same removed from the bracteæ; fig. 3, calycine leaf; fig. 4, segments of the corolla and stamens; fig. 5, germen and hypogynous scales; fig. 6, ripe capsule enclosed in the persistent bracteæ; fig. 7, the same with the bracteæ removed; fig. 8, the same split open; fig. 9, a valve of the capsule; fig. 10, a seed:—all magnified.
2. D. verticillatum, Lab. Labillardière, Voyage, vol. ii. p. 211. t. 40. DeC. l.c. p. 770. Hab. New Caledonia; on the mountains.
§ II. Staminibus epipetalis, floribus paniculatis, bracteis caducis, foliolis calycinis tubo corollæ multo brevioribus.
3. D. latifolium; arboreum, foliis ½–1½ pedalibus longissime lanceolatis subflexuosis (pro genere latis) margine obtuse serrulatis, panicula effusa nutante pilosa demum glabra, bracteis deciduis, floribus parvis, foliolis calycinis æqualibus pubescentibus late ovatis corolla multo brevioribus.—A. Cunn. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Zel. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 48. DeC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 770. Epacris longifolia, Banks and Sol. MSS. in Mus. Brit.
Hab. New Zealand; common in the woods of the Northern Island.
The most handsome but smallest-flowered species of the genus. Leaves an inch broad at the base. Panicle a foot long, very much branched.
4. D. strictum, n. sp.; arbuscula?, foliis 2–3 uncialibus late-subulatis suberectis strictis e basi vaginante gradatim acuminatis concavis marginibus serrulatis, panicula 2 unciali recta subcoarctata pilosa ramis crassis, bracteis deciduis, foliolis calycinis ovatis acutis tubo corollæ ½ brevioribus, corolla majuscula 5 lin. longa.
Hab. New Zealand; Mountain of Tongariro: Mr. Bidwill.
Much smaller than the D. latifolium, and remarkably different in the size of the flower.
5. D. affine, n. sp.; arbuscula, foliis 2-uncialibus late-subulatis patentibus e basi lata vaginante gradatim acuminatis planiusculis, marginibus serrulatis, panicula 2-unciali nutante glabra effusa ramis tenuibus, bracteis deciduis, foliolis calycinis late-ovatis acutis tubo corollæ ⅓ brevioribus, corolla 2½ lin. longa.
Hab. New Zealand; mountains of the interior: Dr. Dieffenbach.
At first sight this much resembles the last species, but it has much smaller flowers and is otherwise very distinct.
§ III. Staminibus epipetalis, floribus spicatis (unica specie solitariis), foliolis calycinis bracteis simillimis tubo corollæ æquilongis.
6. D. longifolium, v. supra.
Hab. New Zealand; in Dusky Bay, and Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands.
7. D. squarrosum, n. sp.; arbuscula, foliis 3–4 uncialibus patentibus squarrosis subgramineis (junioribus strictis) e basi subscariosa vaginante gradatim lineari-subulatis glaberrimis marginibus serrulatis concavis, spicis 1½–2 uncialibus lateralibus fasciculatis 5–6-floris, bracteis foliolisque calycinis ovato-lanceolatis gradatim acuminatis florem superantibus, corollæ tubo gracili, limbi segmentis lanceolatis obtusis.
Hab. New Zealand; Northern Island, Manukau Bay: W. Colenso, Esq.
A small diffuse tree, 12–14 feet high, allied to D. longifolium, but the leaves are of a different habit and texture, and the corolla quite unlike that of the southern plant: both of these have large leaves, and more the
