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glabemmis valde coriaceis supeme medio canaliculatis subtus carinatis costa marginibusque incrassatis
floralibus paulo latioribus, capitulis laxifloris, perianthii tubo gracili laxe sericeo-villoso laciniis liueari-
oblongis spathulatisve i-2-plo longiore, genitalibus exsertis. Forst. Frodr. A. McJi. Fl. A. Cmm. Prodr.
Var. F. Menziesii ; ramulis glaberrimis, foliis elliptico- v. oblongo-lanceolatis bneari-oblongisve.
H a b . Throughout the Islands, from south of the Thames to Stewart’s Island. Scarce in the Northern
Island. Base of Tongariro, etc., Colenso. Southern Island, Lyall. Var. 8 - Dusky Bay, Menzies.
An erect shrub, S-5 feet high, which, except wlien in flower, may readily be mistaken for Veronica buxifolia
or some of its allies. As a species it appears very distmct. from its erect growth, smooth or sparingly hairy branches,
quadrifariously imbricated, glabrous, coriaceous leaves, which are keeled, have a thick margin, and are often glossy,,
and from the upper ones being broad and forming a sort of involucre to the inflorescence, as in most of its Australian
congeners, but not to so remarkable a degree. The leaves are so thick as often to wrinkle in drying ; they turn deep
brown or yellow-green, the upper ones ofteu assuming a verdigiis-green hue, also cbaracterislic of various New
Holland species. Var. ^ may be a new species, but I have seen only one specimen, and that in bud only. P. virgata
is. perhaps, the nearest ally of this, and agi-ees in the form of the flower; and I have erect specimens of P. pro-
strata coming very near it in other respects.
7. Piiaelea 'Hi, Hook. fil. ; caule elongato prostrato robusto divaricatim ramoso, cortice pallide
brunneo, ramis ascendentibus sericeo-villosis, foliis siccitate pallide flavo-viridibus | unc. longis subdeuse
quadrifariam imbricatis lineari-oblongis acutis rarius elliptico-ovatis supra concavis glabratis subtus convexis
pilis longis laxe sericeis, capitulis 3-4-floris, perianthii sericei tubo lobis ovatis obtusis paulo longiore.
Ha b . Middle and Southern Islands. Ruapuke Island and Port WiUiam, Lyall.
Most neai-ly allied to P. arenaria, Cunn., but a different-looking plant, retaining a pale yeUow-green hue when
dry, instead of the dark-brown of P. arenaria, and having remarkably few-flowered capitula. Stems prostrate, a foot
or more long, stout, flexible, covered with pale-brown bark. Branches 4-6 inches long, densely silky, viUous.
Uaves numerous, loosely imbricate, i inch long, linear oblong or elliptic ovate. Flowers rather shorter than the
leaves.—I have also a smaU specimen of this from I t . Colenso, labelled as from the Southern Island.
Gen. I I . DRAPETES, Lam.
Perianthium tubulosum; limbo 4-fido; fauce squamata v. esquamata. Slamina 4, fauce inserta.
« (y te lateralis ; capitato v. piumoso. V « ecorticata.
Small creeping moss- or heath-like plants, with minute linear imbricating leaves, and solitary or few, terminal,
inconspicuous flowers, that differ from Pimelea only in having four stamens, and scales at the throat of the perianth.
Only four species ai-e known, one from Fuegia, two from New Zealand, and one from the mountains of Borneo.
Endlicher has separated the D. Dieffenbachii genericaUy, on the ground of the tube of the perianth not being angular
and jointed, and its throat being dosed by the scales. The Borneo D. ericoides however (Hook. Ic. Plant.) combines
the characters of unjointed perianth, glandular faux, and capitate stigma; and aU the species rank naturally under
one genus. (Name from ipmrtnjr, a runaway ; from the deciduous perianth.)
1. Drapetes Dieffenbachii, Hook. ; fruticulus, caule repente ramosissimo, foliis dense imbricatis linearibus
obtusis apice barbatis, floribus brevissime pedicellatis foliis immersis, perianthii fauce squamata,
pedicellis ovarioque apice barbatis. Hook. Lond. -Jov-rn. Bot. v. 6.* . 497. t. 17.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands. Mount Egmont, Dieffenhach. Tongariro, Bidwill. Top of
Ruahine mountains, Colenso. Warrau mountains; abundant, Bidwill.
A small heath-like plant, with prostrate, slender, shrubby stems, 6 inches to a foot long. Uaves imbricated,
linear, appressed, blunt, bearded at the tip, 2 lines long.
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2. Drapetes muscosa. Hook, f il; caule elongato repente robusto, ramis erectis glaberrimis dense
foliosis, foliis undique dense imbricatis lineari-ligulatis obtusis marginibus apiceque ciliatis, floribus terminalibus
solitariis.
H a b . Southern Island, and southern extreme of the Middle Island, Lyall.
A much smaller plant than D. Dieffenbachii, pale green when dry, with densely imbricated, shorter, and rather
broader leaves, less than a line long, and broader at the base.—I have seen only one or two fruits; they are solitary
on the ends of short lateral branches.
N a t . O r d . LXXVI. SANTALAOEiE, Br.
Gen. I. BXOCARPÜS, Imb.
Perianthium 5-partitum, rotatum. Stamina 5, basi laciniarum inserta. Stylus brevissimus; stigmate
obtuso. Nux supera, corticata, l-sperma, pedúnculo baccato inserta. Vhnbryo axi albuminis inversus.
A very remarkable genus, of often leafless plants, with jointed stems, that bear little scales, which are sometimes
expanded into tbe appearance of leaves, but not iu tbe only New Zealand species; they are abundant in Australia
aud Tasmania, and a few species are found in Norfolk Island and the Pacific Islands; but the genus is unknown
elsewhere. The baccate peduncle is eaten aud called “ Native Cherry” in Australia, where some kinds are arboreous.
—Flowers polygamous, very minute, iu axillary spikes. Perianth five- (rarely four-) parted. Stamens five. Style
short, with a capitate stigma. Nut superior, placed on a fleshy swollen peduncle. (Name from e^o), outside, and
KapTTOS, fi'u it; from the scarlet swollen peduncle resembling the fmit.)
1. Exocarpus Bidwillii, Hook, fil.; frutescens, procumbens, ramulis teretibus sulcatis, foliis minimis
triangularibus squammforinibus, floribus 6-10 spiculis brevibus crassis puberulis sessilibus 5-meris.
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H a b . Middle Island. Warrau mountains, 1000-1500 feet above the plain, BidwiU.
A low shrub, 6-10 inches high, creeping amongst stones. Branches terete, gi-ooved, bearing no other leaves
than minute triangular scales. Flowers eight to ten, ou short club-shaped puberulous peduncles. Perianth five-
parted. Nut black, seated in a scarlet fleshy peduncle.—Very closely allied indeed to the F. htmifusa of the mountains
of Tasmania, differing only in the perianth being five- instead of four-parted.—Plate LII. Fig. 1, branch and
flowers; 2, bud; 3, expanded flower; 4, branch and fruit; 5, section through nut and peduncle; 6, embiyn:—
all magnified.
Gen. II . SANTALUM, L.
Perianthii limbus deciduus, 4—5-lobus. Stamina 4 -5 , glandulis totidem alternantia; filamentis dorso
fascículo pilorum v. glándula pilosa instructis. Stigma 3-4-lobum. Brupa subbaccata, apice marginata.
The only New Zealand species forms a small tree, with alternate leaves, extremely variable in size and breadth.
Branches angular, woody; bark pale. Leaves alternate, of young plants opposite and minutely dotted, shortly
petioled, 2-4 inches long, varying from narrow linear-lanceolate to broadly obovate, veined. Flowers green, in
axillary panicles, 4“ ^ kick broad. Perianth with a liemispherical tube and four or five ovate deciduous lobes.
Stamens four to five, alternating with minute glands ; filaments with a tuft of hair at the base behind. Style short:
sligma three- to foui'-lobed. Berry obovate, or turbinate, or clavate, 4 iuch long, truncate, crowned with the
border of the perianth and persistent style. Embryo nearly as long as the albumen.—The other species of this
genus (which produces the Sandal-wood) are Asiatic, Australian, and Pacific Island plants. (Name, Arabic,
Szandal.)
1. Santalum Cunninghamii, Hook. fil. S. Mida, llook. Ic. Plant, t. 563 et 565. Mida salicifolia,