Tas. 7753. 
LHOTSKYA Errcores. 
Native of King George's Sound. 
Nat. Ord. Myrtacex.—Tribe CHAMALAUCIE, 
Genus Luortskyra, Schau.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 699.) 
Luotsyka ericoides; fruticulus erectus, foliosus, ramulis erectis virgatis 
glanduloso-pilosulis, foliis }-pollicaribus erecto-patentibus subconfertis 
anguste linearibus fere acicularibus teretibus strictis obtusis vel apicalatis 
glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus sessilibus secus ramulos confertis in 
fasciculos cylindraceos dispositis 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis subulatis 
calycis tubum elongatum 6-costatum costis scaberulis subzequantibus, 
calycis lobis parvis ovato-rotundatis, petals calyce fere duplo longioribus 
lineari-lanceolatis acutis, staminibus numerosis petalis equilongis, 
antheris minimis flavis. 
L. ericoides, Schauer in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Ed. ii. p. 439; in 
Linnea, vol. x. (1835-6) p. 809; im Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. vol. xix. 
Suppl. IL. (1841) p. 285; Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 103. Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vol. iil. p. 55. 
L. seabra, Zurez.in Bull. Soc, Nat. Mosc. 1862, vol. ii. p. 324, 
L. hirta, Rege?, Gartenfi. vol. xii. (1863), p. 337, t. 415; iz Trans. Hort. Soe. 
Russ. 1863, t. 141 ic. it. 
Lhotskya is a genus of eight species, natives of South 
and Western Australia, from Victoria westwards, of which 
L. ericoides is confined to the King George’s Sound and 
the adjoining district. The genus is so closely allied to 
the much larger one of Calythriz (see tab. 3323), differing 
only in the absence of a bristle terminating each calyx- 
lobes, that it might well be regarded as a section of the 
latter. The name it bears is that of Johann Lhotsky, a 
traveller and naturalist who collected in Madeira (where I 
met him in 1839), Brasil, Australia, and Tasmania. He 
was author of a paper on the Botanical Geography of New 
Holland, published in ‘ Hooker’s London Journal of 
Botany,” vol. ii. (1843), p. 135. 
The specimen here figured was raised from seeds col- 
lected in Australia by Mr. James Veitch in 1898, and was 
presented by him to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it 
flowered in a cool house in June, 1900. It was then about 
two feet high. 
Descr.—A. small, erect, nearly glabrous shrub, with 
slender, strict, erect branches, covered with needle-like 
JaNvuARY lst, 1901, 
