loO LXVII. EPACRIDE.E. 



"W. Australia- Brurnmond, hih Coll. n. 327; Phillips Eange and Eyre's Relief, 

 MaxwcIL 



2. COLEANTHERA, Stschegl. 



(Micliiea, F, MuelL) 



Sepals small. Corolla-tube short, bearded inside at the throat, otherwise 

 glabrous ; lobes long, linear, valvate in the bud, more or less bearded inside, 

 much revolute exposing the stamens. Filaments inserted in the throat; an- 

 thers exserted, linear, 1 -celled, attached by the middle, cohering above the 

 middle in a cone round the style. Hypogyuous disk none or very obscure. 

 Ovary 5-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Style filiform, longer than the 

 corolla-tube ; stigma small. Fruit a drupe with a dry or scarcely pulpy me- 

 socarp and a hard endocarp, with 5 cells and seeds, or fewer by abortion.— 

 Leaves flat or concave. Flowers small, 2 or 3 together on a short axillary 

 peduncle, or solitaiy witli a minute rudiment of another. Bracts few, small, 



the subtending one sliglitly enlarged and embracing the base of the calyx as 

 well as the larger bracteoles. 



The genus is limited to S.W. Australia. It is nearly allied to Styyhetla, with which F. 

 Mueller has recently united it (Fragm. vi. 80), hut the small flowers give it the aspect of 

 Leuco^ogon, auJ the exserted connate anthers readily distinguish it from both. 



Leaves strongly veined underneath, ovate or lanceolate usually hairy . 1. C. cmlo^hyll^ 



Leaves smooth, the veins very Sue and scarcely promiucnt, usually da- 

 brous. 



Leaves ovate or orbicular. Corolla-lobes bearded to the end . . . 2. C. mi/rtoides. 

 Leaves linear or linear-laueeolate. CoroUa-lobes bearded at the base 



oiiiy . . , 3. (7. virgata. 



1. C. coelopLylla, BentJt. An erect bushy shrub of 1 to 2 ft., more 

 or less hirsute with soft hairs on the branches and margins and bases of the 

 leaves. Leaves orate to lanceolate, obtuse or with a small callous point, 

 concave, strongly striate underneath, ^ to |- in. long. Flowers solitary or 

 rarely 2 together on a very short peduncle, all axillary. Bracts very small; 

 bracteoles broad, obtuse, not | line long. Sepals about 1 line long, obtuse, 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx, the lobes longer than the tube 

 and bearded as in a myrtoides ; stamens and style the same as in that spe- 

 cies.— Z^wcc^y^oyo;? ccelopJiyllus, A. Cunn.; DC. Prod, vii, 753. 



W. Australia. Eastward of King George's Sound, Baxter. The strongly ribbed 

 loliage_ gives this plant a very different aspect from that of C. wyrtoides, indepeudeutly oi 



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2. C. myrtoides, BUclmjl. in Bull. Mosc. 1859, i. 4. Aa erect bushy 

 shrub, attaming 4 to 5 ft., glabrous or the branches sliglitly pubescent. 

 Leaves very shortly petiolate, often clustered towards the end of each annual 

 shoot, ovate or almost orbicular, obtuse or with a short callous point, concave 

 or nearly flat, the fiabellate veins often forked but fine and scarcely conspicu- 

 ous, 3 to 4 lines long. Peduncles very short, 1- to 3-flovvered, those at the 

 base of tlie shoots often without any subtendin- leaf. Bracts and bracteoles 

 very small, bepals ovate, obtuse, about I line long. Corolla-tube shorter 

 than the calyx ; lobes longer than the tube, bearded the whole length, p' 

 ments filiform, glabrous, shorter than the lobes ; anthers linear, 2 li»^ 





