upper part. Style erect, hairy, fcarcely protruded beyond the 

 tube of the flower : fiigma fimple, truncate. Nectary five fcales 

 or barren filaments inferted below the germen, alternating with 

 the real filament?, ereB, rather longer than the germen. The 

 flowers have a fweet but difagreeable (cent. 



This is a fpecies diftinct from and not a variety of the 

 Epacris figured at No. 144 of this work, and which we fup- 

 pofed to be the pungens of Cavanilles ; not having at that 

 time any idea of the number of fpecies that this genus has been 

 fince found to contain, the plant from which that drawing was 

 taken being the firft: Epacris which flowered in this country. 

 Moll or all of the fpecimens which we have feen, of the fpecies 

 now figured, have white flowers, but in no other refpeft can 

 we trace any difference ; fo that we can but confider this as a 

 variety of the E. pungens of Cavanilles. It differs however 

 in many very material points from that miftakenly fo called by 

 us. In the latter the corolla is more funnel-fhaped, its tube 

 inflated in the middle, the lacinise narrower, (harper, and lei's 

 patent, the faux more open, admitting the ftamens to appear 

 in fight; the leaflets of the calyx are more lax and do not 

 embrace the tube of the corolla fo tightly j the leaves are 

 rather pointed than acuminate, and more recurved ; the fcales 

 of the neBary are much (horter ; the ftyle naked ; the ftigma 

 capitate \ and the filaments connate with the tube, yet they 

 may be traced if examined with a lens oppofite the light. 



This circumftance of the real infertion of the filaments below 

 the germen, fo evident in the prefent fpecies, ftrengthens very 

 much the affinity of this genus with the Eric./£. 



This beautiful Epacris is one of the moft defirablc that we 

 have feen, the branches being more ere6l and lefs ftragghng 

 than in either Epacris grandiflora or puicbel/a, though the 

 flowers are much fmaller than in the former, and not fo agree- 

 ably fcented as in the latter. Communicated by Mr. Lod- 

 diges, with whom it firft flowered in the fpring of 1808, and 

 who alfo poffeffes the white-flowered variety. 



May be increafed by layers ; requires to be protected from 

 frofts ; flowers in March and April. 



CORRIGENDA. 



No. 844. 1. j. pro " PuKeiK*" lege " Purturascens.'* 

 10. pro H futtgms" lege " purf>urafceti$." 



13. dele m Epacru /«»£#*/," &c. et adde " Efacris/*^*^./^'' 

 Banlf. Herb, Fide Ne. 1199." 



