Ericales.] 



EPACRIDACE^. 



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green or whitish colour, sometimes slightly red, about the size of a black cuirant, con- 

 sisting of a viscid, apple-flavom-ed pulp inclosing a large seed. This fruit grows singly on 

 the trailing stems of the plant, which resembles Juniper, bearing beautiful scarlet blos- 

 soms in -tt-inter. The fruit of Styphelia adscendens, a small prostrate shrub, resembles 

 in appearance and character that of Astroloma humifusa. Leucopogon Richei, called 

 Native Currant, is a lai'ge dense shinib, gro^^^ng only on the sea-coast, and attaining to a 

 heigh:: of fi'om four to seven feet. The berries are small, white, and of a herby flavour. 

 In D'Entrecasteaux's voyage in search of La Perouse, a French naturalist named Riche 

 was lost for three days on the south coast of New Holland, and supported himself princi- 

 pally upon the berries of this plant ; in commemoration of which circumstance it has 

 received its specific name. — Backhouse. 



GENERA. 



I. Styphelie«. — One- 

 seeded. 



Conostephium, Benth. 

 Stv-phelia, Smith. 



'Soleniscia, DC. 

 Astroloma, R. Br. 



Ventenatia, Cav. part. 



Stomarrhena, DC. 

 Stenanthera, R. Br. 

 Brachyloma, Bonder. 

 Melichrus, R. Br. 



Ventenatia, Cav. part. 



Melidepas, Endl. 

 Cyathodes, R. Br. 

 Lissanthe, R. Br. 

 Androstoma, Hookfil. 

 Leucopogon, R. Br. 



Perojoa, Cav. 



Peroa, Pers. 

 Monotoca, R. Br. 

 Acrotriche, R Br. 

 Trochocarpa, R Br. 

 Decaspora, R. Br. 

 Pentachondra, R. Br. 



Needhamia, R. Br. 

 Oligarrhena, R. Br. 



II. 



EPACREjE.- 



seeded. 



Many- 



Epacrls, Smith. 

 Lysinema, R. Br. 



Julicta, Leschen. 

 Lebetantlius, Endl. 



AUodape, Endl. 

 Prionotes, R. Br. 

 Cosmelia, R. Br, 



Andersonia, R. Br. 



Atherocephala , DC. 

 Ponceletia, R. Br. 

 Sprengelia, Smith. 



Poiretia, Cav. 

 Cystanthe, R. Br. 

 Pilhis, Lindl. 

 Richea, R. Br. 

 DracophyUum, Lah. 



Dacryanthus, Endl. 

 Sphenotoma, R. Br. 



Numbers. Gen. 30. Sp. 320, 



Position. — Ericaceae. — EPACRiDACEiE.- 



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