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616 empty, on shorter filaments. Ovary large, densely villous at the tip: style long; stigma capitate, exserted. Fruit small, ovoid.—Raoul, Choix, 42; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 222; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 245. D. macrantha, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 487. Kelleria Dieffenbachii, ''Endl. Gen. Suppl.'' iv. 61; ''Meisn. in D.C. Prodr.'' xiv. 566.

2. D. villosa, Cheesem.—Very similar in most of its characters to D. Dieffenbachii, but usually a more robust plant, with the branchlets more or less villous with greyish hairs, and with slightly larger leaves that are somewhat broader at the base, and have the margins and frequently the back ciliate to the base. Flowers in 3–4-flowered heads at the tips of the branches, similar to those of D. Dieffenbachii, but the glands always 8.—Kelleria villosa, ''Berggren in Minnesk. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund.'' (1877) 18, t. 5, f. 1–15.

3. D. Lyallii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 336.—A compactly branched moss-like plant, usually forming dense patches 1–4 in. diam.; branches short, erect or ascending. Leaves very densely imbricate, usually erect, $1⁄12$–$1⁄10$ in. long, narrow-ovate or ovate-oblong or ovate-subulate, broadest at the base and then tapering gradually to an acute or subacute tip, convex and smooth on the