I 



Bhjphlia.] ' lxvii. epacride.e. 149 



rolla-tube very slender, fully 1 in. long, without either tufts of hairs or scales 

 inside ; the lobes short and thinly hairy inside, but linear and much revolute 

 as in other Styphelice. Hypogvnous disk short, 5-toothed. Drupe ovoid, 

 nearly twice as long as tlie cAw^.—Soleniscia elegans, DC. Prod. vii. 738 ; 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. v. 21 ; myplelia elegans, Sond. iu PL Preiss. i. 296. 



'^- Australia. From King George's Sound to Swan River, Drummond, \st Coll. 

 alio n. 15, 481, Preiss, n. 468, 469, Jlarvei/, Maxwell. 



9. S. melaleucoides, T. Muell. Fragm. iv. 97. vi. 30. A shrub of 2 



to 3 ft., glabrous or the braiichlets minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves in the 

 tv^ical form broadly ovate-cordate or almost orbicular, mucronate-acute, rigid, 

 flat or concave, 3 to 5 lines long. Flowers solitary or 2 together on very 

 sliort peduncles with a terminal rudiment, the bracts very small ; bracteoles 

 scarcely \ line long, very broad and obtuse. Sepals 1 to U Hue long, very 

 oWuse. Corolla-tube slender, about 3 lines long, slightly hairy in the throat, 

 otherwise glabrous inside and without scales ; lobes as long as tlie tube, 

 closely revolute, bearded inside. Anthers linear. Hypogynous disk short, 

 truncate or sinuate-toothed. Ovary 5 -celled, tapering into' the slender style. 



W 



Iti the interior from Eagle Hawk Camp, Maxwell. 



yar.ovala, P. Muell. Leaves all ovate, not cordate, with a longer rigid point.— Israelite 

 ^^y, Maxwell. ' 



10. S. pusilliflora, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 105. Branchlets minutely 

 pubescent. Leaves ovate, acute, with a fine rigid point, about 3 lines long, 

 «wning and rigid like those of 8. melaleucoides, but rather convex than con- 

 cave. Flowers solitary or 2 together on a very short peduncle with a termi- 

 nal rudiment. Bracts very small ; bracteoles half as long as the calyx, and 

 sepals li lines long, all acutely acuminate. Corolla-tube scarcely exceeding 

 ue calyx, glabrous inside except a few hairs iu the throat ; lobes revolute.as 

 t "° ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^' 'Jearded inside. Anthers oblong-linear. Hypogynous disk 

 Jincate or sinuate-toothed. Ovary 5-celled, tapering into the slender style. 

 -^e«eo^oyott exarrhenus, F. Muell, Fragm. i. 178 ; Slgphelia exarrhena, F. 

 ^"ueii. Fragm. vi. 31. 



He?K l^^^**"^^'*- Near Penola in the Tattiara country. Wood, a single small specimeii iu 

 stort co" Ti ' evidently aUied to 5'. melaleucoides, bat readily distingmshed by the 



roUa-tube and acutely acuminate Lracts and sepals. 



of Yf ^0 ^^^copogon, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 97. vi. 31, An erect shrub 

 Lei k ^^■' *''^ ^^ranches rather slender, glabrous or minutely pubescent. 

 cor> * broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, contracted into a short petiole, very 

 Flow ^"'^ ^^™°^^ conduplicate but recurved at the end, not 2 lines long. 

 lon» "V '"^^^' pedicellate, with very small bracts, the bracteoles not \ line 

 sj^^; , ^^P^^s a little more than 1 line long, rather narrow but obtuse, 

 quitr I ^^'■^^la-'f^ibe slender and cylindrical, but scarcely exceeding 2 hues, 

 J e glabrous inside; lobes nearly as long, bearded inside, much revolute. 

 men, fk^*^^ scales free, lanceolate, acuminate. Anthers rather small ; sta- 

 Sobl--'^^^^^' ^^ ^^t^ll as the ovary and style, entirely those of the genus.— 

 F M ,?^'^^''^^^^«^ Stschegl. in Bull. Mosc. 1859, i. 3 ; Leucopogon exsertus, 

 ■ Muell. Fragm. iii. 143. 



