longo-lanceolate, acute, rigid, glaucous green, pec 
three to five-nerved, convex above. Spikes small, crowded, 
terminal, rather shorter than the leaves. Calyx and brac- 
teal scales oblongo-ovate, imbricated, white or very pale 
green, often red in the centre. Corolla white: its tube 
oblongo-cylindrical : its limb five-cleft ; the segments re- 
flexed, densely hairy within. Anthers almost sessile, linear- 
oblong, brownish-red ; pollen yellow. Hypogynous disk 
cup-shaped, lobed, dark brownish green. Germen round- 
ish-oval : Style about the same length. Stigma somewhat 
capitate. 
** The Epacripez& form a most remarkable and extensive 
tribe of plants in Australia, the temperate regions of which 
they more particularly inhabit, and by their abundance and 
wide dispersion upon its coasts, and in portions of its ex- 
plored interior, give a striking feature to the vegetation of 
that singular country, where they occupy the place of the 
Heaths of Southern Africa. Of this highly interesting 
family, so desirable to our cultivation, Mr. Brown has de- _ 
scribed one hundred and thirty-five species; and of these 
upwards of one-third are of the Genus of our presett 
subject. 
“ Although our plant has been already noticed, and under 
several names, we are, nevertheless, happy to give a repre- 
sentation of it, taken from specimens which Twenge Tast 
year in the Royal Gardens at Kew, because it affords us an 
si bag of publishing the correct synonymy of a species 
clearly but little understood, which has been obligingly 
communicated to us by Mr. Brown ; to whom also we are 
mdebted for the following observations. 
«< Sir James Epwarp Situ, in Rees’ Cyclopedia, first 
remarked that I had improperly referred AnDRew’s STYPHE- 
LIA parviflora, and Ventenat’s 8. Gnidium to his S. lanceo- 
lata, and is disposed to consider them as belonging to my 
Leucopogon apiculatus, from which, they are still more — 
distinct. Sir James E. Smrrn had received specimens of 
his plant from Port Jackson, and these specimens I have 
ascertained to belong to Lrucorogon Richei, to that state 
especially, in which I observed it between Port Jackson 
and Botany Bay, in 1803. He remarks (1. c.) that those 
native specimens agree with a plant then not unfrequent 10 
Se panten. and hence probably he refers without hesita- 
tion to AnpreEws’s figure, which I still designate as a bad — 
representative of Leucorocon Richei, as 1 had done 1 ~ 
ferring it formerly to L. lanceolatus. VEnrENnat’s Seay . 
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