regions of New Zealand, especially as it is particularly abundant in Lord Auckland's group, where it creeps over the ground and forms low wiry bushes, resembling the Crow-berry (Empetrum nigrum); the flowers are very inconspicuous, smaller than those of any other plant of the Nat. Ord. with which I am acquainted. The ripe fruit I have never seen; Mr. Bidwill describes the plant as bearing a white berry. The name, from ανμρ (stamen) and σιμα (os, oris), is adopted in allusion to the position of the stamens, wherein the chief distinction lies between this genus and Lissanthe, Br.
Plate XXX. Fig. 1, flower and peduncle; fig. 2, a scale from the peduncle; fig. 3, a calycine leaflet; fig. 4, corolla; fig. 5, the same expanded; fig. 6, the same cut open, showing the insertion and position of the stamens; fig. 7, front, and fig. 8, back view of a stamen; fig. 9, ovarium; fig. 10, unripe berry; fig. 11, transverse section of do.; fig. 12, unripe seed:—all magnified.
Tribe EPACREÆ, Br.
2. DRACOPHYLLUM, Lab.
Calyx 5-phyllus, basi bracteatus, bracteis persistentibus vel caducis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis, limbo 5-partito, lobis patentibus v. suberectis æstivatione imbricatis, apicibus inflexis cucullatisve imberbibus, tubo tereti subventricoso vel campanulato, fauce plus minusve contracta. Stamina 5 inclusa, corollæ; adnata, v. rarius hypogyna. Squamæ hypogynæ 5. Capsula 5-locularis, loculicide 5-valvis, placentis ab apice columnæ centralis pendulis solutis. Semina pendula, angulata, testa reticulata.—Frutices vel arbores Australasicæ et Novæ Zelandiæ, unico Novæ Caledoniæ, paucis ex insulis Antarcticis pervenientibus; ramis denudatis annulatis cicatricosis. Folia imbricata, basi vaginantia, graminea v. subulata. Flores racemosi, seu spicati, pedunculis lateralibus termi-nalibusve. Bracteæ a lobis ealycinis plerumque vix distinguendæ.—Character e Candollei Prodromo ad species omnes mihi cognitas includendas mutuatus.
1. Dracophyllum longifolium, Br.; arboreum, ramis atris exustis, ramulis castaneis, foliis ad apices ramulorum confertis e basi lata vaginante abrupte angustioribus longissime lineari-subulatis strictis rarius (plantis junioribus) recurvis concavis striatis pubescentibus vel glabris, floribus spicatis, spicis solitariis rarius binis aggregatisve lateralibus 7—9-floris, pedicellis articulatis, bracteis deciduis, corollæ tubo campanulato calycem superante, limbi segmentis late ovatis obtusis. (Tab. XXXI. & XXXII.)—Brown, Prodr. p. 556 (in nota). A. Rich. Ft. Nov. Zel. p. 219. A. Cunn. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Zel. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 48. DeC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 770. Epacris longifolia, Forst. Prodr. n. 68. Char. Gen. t. 10. n. 1. et MSS. in Mus. Par. a Cl. A. Richard, l. supra cil. evulgata.
Hab. Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island; in woods near the sea, abundant, never ascending more than 400 feet on the hills.
Caulis seu truncus arboreus, ascendens, 15-25 ped. altitudine, diametro 1½ pedalis, et paulo ultra prope basin, ramosus, cortice fusco atro quasi usto sulcis longitudinalibus confluentibus exarato obtectus, ligno albido molli, laminibus inconspicuis, radiis medullaribus paucis latiusculis; ramis brachiatis erecto-patentibus; ramulis teretibus crassitie pennæ corvinæ longe denudatis et cicatricibus horizontalibus annulatis, cortice castaneo nitido, apicibus solummodo foliosis. Folia fasciculata, pleraque stricta, erecta, e basi vaginante longissime lineari-subulata, supra pubesccntia, v. subsericea, concava, subtus v. dorso glaberrima, convexa, subcarinata, margine integerrima sub lente per totam longitudinem ciliata, sensim acuminata apicibus pungentibus, coriacea, striata, læte viridia, 8 unc. ad pedalem longa, 3—4 lin. lata; plantis junioribus planiora, glabra, patentia, v. reflexa, graminea; vagina oblonga, basi amplexicaulis, striata, lamina duplo latior, ½—¾ unc. longa, margine scariosa, superne
