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422 than the blade, gradually narrowed into long acuminate points, coriaceous or somewhat grassy, concave; margins finely serrulate, ciliolate at the base. Racemes lateral, 1–2 in. long, 4–8-flowered, usually fascicled along the branches some distance below the tip. Bracts persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acummate. Flowers ¼ in. long, white. Sepals almost equalling the corolla, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Anthers included. Style short, stout. Capsule small, concealed by the persistent sepals.—D. squarrosum, ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' i. 48. (not of R. Br.); Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 169; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 181.

7. D. recurvum, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 50.—A small rather stout much-branched shrub 6 in. to 2 ft. or 3 ft. high; bark blackish-brown; branches naked, ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branches, spreading and recurved, ½–1½ in. long; sheathing base membrauous, ⅛–¼ in. broad, ciliolate, suddenly narrowed into a rigid and coriaceous linear-subulate usually much recurved lamina, which is concave on the upper surface and almost keeled beneath, tip obtuse, margins minutely serrulate. Flowers ¼ in. long, in short and stout terminal bracteate spikes ½–1 in. long; bracts numerous, large, persistent, almost concealing the flowers, base broad and foliaceous, tip short, subulate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost as long as the corolla-tube, ciliolate. Corolla n arrow- campanulate; lobes short, ovate-triangular, acute. Anthers included. Style very short. Capsule small, ⅛ in. long, shorter than the sepals.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 171; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 181. D. rubrum. ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xx. (1888) 200. D. tenuicaulis, Col. l.c. xxii. (1890) 476. D. brachyphyllum and D. vanum. Col. l.c. xxviii. (1896) 602, 604. D. brachycladum, Col. l.c. xxxi. (1899) 275.

8. D. longifolium, R. Br. Prodr. 556.—Very variable in stature, sometimes a shrub from 4 to 8 ft. high, at others forming a small tree 12 to 25 ft. with a trunk 6–15 in. diam.; bark black; branches slender, erect, naked below. Leaves