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Lxvii. EPACRiDEiE. [Jstroloma. 



Filameats much flattened. 

 Leaves concave, eutire or scarcely scabrous-denticulate. 



Leaves spreading, ovate or lanceolate, 1 to H li>ies long . , 4. ^, microphyllum. 

 Leaves erect, linear or linear-lanceolate, 4 to 6 lines long . 5. J. prostratum. 

 Leaves erect, ovate or broadly lanceolate, above ^ in. long . 6. A, tectum. 

 Leaves concave flat or slightly convex, deuticulate-ciliate. 



Leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, concave. Shrub erect . T. A. Candolleamm. 



Leaves broadly lanceolate, flat. Shrub erect 8. ^. rnicrodonta. 



Leaves lanceolate or oblauceolate, concave. Shrub low or 



^i^^se 9, ^, pallidum. 



Leaves cuneate obovate or oblanceolate, nearly flat. Shrub 



prostrate 10. ^. compacium. 



Leaves lanceolate linear or almost subulate, tapering into a 



pungent point, the margins sometimes recurved . °. . . 11. ^. humlfusum. 

 Leaves narrow with recurved or revolute margins, entire or 

 scarcely scabrous-denticulate. 

 Leaves very spreading, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, with 



ngid or pungent points 12. ^. divaricatum. 



Leaves Imear, with short points not pungent, usually hoary or 

 glaucous underneath. 

 Calyx fully 3 lines long. Tlant usually softly pubescent . 13. A. Drumtnondii, 

 Calyx 2 to 24 lines long. Plant usually glabrous or mi- 

 nutely pubescent 14. ^. microcahjr. 



Sect. II. Ven.t^.ts.v'hvjxs,— Corolla-tube with 5 dejiexed fringed scales inside below 

 the middle alternating with (he stamens. Filaments much flattened,' L?aoes linear with 

 revolute margins. Bracts and sepals large. 



Calyx 3 to 4 lines long. Corolla-tube exsertcd. Anthers acumi- 



Date ...,, _ 15jd Saxteri. 



Calyx 6 to 8 liaes long. Corolla-tube scarcely longer. ' Aathers 



very obtuse jq_ j_ conostepJdoides- 



y* ^^':^-/^^' Stenantliera.— Cora/Z^-^«3e without tufts of hairs or scales inside below 

 ike middle. Filaments much flattened. Leaves linear, vnth reoolute margins. 



Calyx 3 to 3i lines long. Bracts smaU. Corolla-lube slender, % 



iQ., lobes bearJed at the base 17. J. longifonm. 



Calyx 5 to 6 lines long. Bracts large. . Corolla-tube not" much 

 exserted, lobes bearded at the end 18. J. jiinifolium. 



Sect. I. Stomarehena. CoroIIa-tube wifh 5 tufts of hairs inside beloiv 



the middle, alternating with the stamens and sometimes confluent in a dense 

 ring. 



1. A. stomarrhena. Sand, in PI. Preiss. i. 801. Stems usually seve- 

 ral from a thick trunk, erect, simple or branched, i to 1 ft. high, the whols 

 plant more or less hirsute with long spreading hairs. Leaves sessile, erect, 

 lanceolate, concave, tapering into a pungent point, the margins quite entire, 

 t to 1 in. long, strongly striate. Flowers scarcely exceeding the leaves, 

 nearly sessde. Upper bracts above 1 line ; bracteoles about 2 lines long- 

 Sepals 4 to 5 Imes long, mucrouate-acute, w ith the same spreading hairs as 

 the rest of the plant. Corolla-tube about 6 lines long, with 5 tufts of hairs 

 mside above the base and very hairy above them ; lobes linear, acute, more 

 revolute than in the other species but less so than in Styphelia and erect at 

 the base, glabrous mside but hairy outside towards the top. Filaments not 

 flattened, more than half as long as the lobes, very hairy, the anthers attached 



