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Dracophyllum. not auricled nor truncate, margins scarious, ciliate with copious white hairs; blade $1⁄25$–$1⁄12$ in. wide at the base, gradually tapering upwards, rigid and coriaceous, upper surface more or less silky-pubescent, concave or nearly flat, lower glabrous, convex or almost keeled towards the tip, margins ciliate with white hairs for their whole length. Flowers white, about ¼ in. long, in dense 3–6-flowered spike-like racemes ½–¾ in. long. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, silky within, margins ciliate. Sepals ovate, acuminate, ciliate, about equalling the corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes short, triangular, acute. Capsule broadly obovate, included within the persistent calyx-lobes.—Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 170. D. Urvilleanum var. scoparium, ''Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 182 (in part).

12. D. subulatum, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 50.—An erect shrub 2–6 ft. high, with long slender twiggy branches leafy at the tips; bark dark red-brown or almost black. Leaves small, strict or liexuose, ⅓–1 in. long, rarely more; sheathing base $1⁄12$–$1⁄10$ in. broad, truncate or auricled at the tip; blade very narrow, $1⁄30$–$1⁄40$ 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 ¾–1½ in. long by $1⁄12$ in. wide at the base, spreading or recurved. Racemes small, lateral, often crowded along the branches, 2–6-flowered. Flowers small, $1⁄10$–$1⁄8$ in. long. Bracts with broadly