| Leaves erect, ¾–3 in. long, silky-pubescent above, margins ciliate with copious white hairs. Racemes 3–6-flowered | 11. D. scoparium. |
| Very slender. Leaves small, erect, ⅓–1 in. long. Racemes 2–5-flowered | 12. D. subulatum. |
| Stout, spreading, much branched. Leaves spreading, 1–2½ in. long, ⅙–⅓ in. broad at the base, gradually tapering, evenly pubescent on both surfaces. Racemes 3–5-flowered | 13. D. pubescens. |
| ** Flowers usually solitary. | |
| Decumbent. Leaves spreading, ¾–2 in. long, ⅙ in. broad at the base, gradually tapering, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers lateral, solitary | 14. D. Kirkii. |
| Erect. Leaves ½–2 in. long (2–4 in. in var. acicularifolium); blade 120–115 broad, pungent. Flowers lateral | 15. D. uniflorum. |
| Depressed or prostrate, rarely suberect. Leaves ¼–1 in., obtuse. Flowers usually terminating short lateral branchlets | 16. D. rosmarinifolium. |
| Small, prostrate, laxly or closely branched. Leaves imbricate, ⅛–¼ in. long, linear-subulate from a broad ovate base. Flower terminal | 17. D. prostratum. |
| Small, forming densely compacted tufts a few inches across. Leaves closely imbricate, 110–18 in. long, tips subulate, usually obtuse | 18. D. muscoides. |
1. D. latifolium, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 412.—A shrub or small tree 8–20 ft. high or more, with a trunk 4–12 in. diam.; young plants forming slender erect unbranched rods with a tuft of grassy leaves at the top; old ones much branched, the branches often whorled, curving outwards and then ascending, giving the tree a candelabrum-like appearance, closely ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branches, squarrose, spreading and recurved, 10–24 in. long, 1–1½ in. broad at the dilated sheathing base, gradually tapering into very long slender points, quite glabrous, coriaceous, striate, concave or rarely nearly flat, margins very minutely serrulate. Panicle terminal, 6–18 in. long, much and closely branched, linear-oblong, erect in flower, inclined in fruit, rhachis and pedicels densely pubescent. Flowers crowded, very numerous, shortly pedicelled, ⅛ in. diam., reddish. Calyx very small, not ¼ the length of the corolla; sepals broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, striate. Corolla campanulate, lobes rather longer than the tube, oblong, obtuse, sharply recurved. Anthers large, oblong, exserted. Capsule small, 110 diam., depresso-globose—Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 167; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 181; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 123. D. recurvatum, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi. (1889) 92.
North Island: Common in hilly forests from the North Cape to Hawke's Bay and Taranaki. South Island: Nelson and Westland, from Collingwood as far south as Charleston. Sea-level to 3000 ft. Neinei. January–February.
