Jstfoloma.] LXVII. EPACRIDEiE. 153 



near tlie top and connivent or slightly colieriug round the style in a dense 

 woolly mass exserted from the corolla-tuhe. Hypogynous disk truncate. 

 Style filiform, longer than the corolla-tube ; stigma distinctly 5-lobed. — Sli/- 

 pJielia lasionenia or Astroloma laslouema, T. Muell. Fragm. vi. 40. 



W. Australia. Swau River, Drummond, \st Coll. n. 475, Preiss, n. 4]0; Hamden, 

 Clarke. 



2. A. macrocalyx, Sond. in FL Fmss. i, 301. A glabrous erect 

 hushy shrub of 1 to 3 ft. Leaves crowded, narrow-lanceolate, tapering into 

 a pungent point, entire, concave or almost convolute, strongly striate, 1 to 1^- 

 in. long. Flowers scarcely exceeding the leaves. Bracteoles shortly mucro- 

 nate, 2 to 3 lines long. Sepals acute, 7 to 8 lines long. Corolla about as 

 'ong as the calyx, the tube with 5 tufts of hairs inside above the base and 

 hairy at the throat ; lobes bearded, acuminate. Filaments short, scarcely 

 flattened ; anthers attached above the middle, 2-lobed at the top. Hypogy- 

 nous disk short, truncate. Stigma capitate. Drupe ovoid, much shorter 

 than the calyx. — Stl/phelia macrocalyx, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 37. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, \d Coll. nUlT, Oldfield; near Pine Apple, 

 Frem, n. 413. 



3. A. xerophyllum, Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 301. An erect shrub of 2 

 to 3 ft., the branches often elongated, minutely pubescent. Leaves narrow- 

 lanceolate, tapering into a pungent point, not ciliate, very concave almost 

 convolute, strongly striate, mostly i to f in. long. Flowers white (Oldjield) 

 scarcely exceeding the leaves o'r shorter. Bracteoles 1|- to 2 Imes long. 

 Sepals about 4 lines, obtuse or scarcely pointed. Corolla-tube broad, ven- 

 tncose, scarcely or not at all exceeding the calyx, glabrous inside below the 

 middle or with an obscure ring or tufts of few small hairs, very hairy towards 

 the throat; lobes lanceolate, 2° to 2^ lines long, erect and bearded inside at 

 the base, glabrous pointed and spreading at the tip. Fdaments very short, 

 ^ot dilated, immersed in the wool of the lobes ; anthers attached above the 

 middle. Hypogynous disk truncate. Stigma globular and hmrj.—Sto- 

 ^arrhena xeropliylh, DC. Prod. vii. 738 ; Sti/phelia .verophi/lla, F. Muell. 

 J^ragm. vi. 38. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, Ist Coll n. 476, Prms, n. 40? ; Murchi- 

 «>" river, Oldfield. This species is anomalous in the want or minuteness of the tufls of 

 ;a>rs near the base of the corolla, but the inflorescence (without any ru<lnnei.tary second 

 fwer), the habit, large flower, and other characters, clearly place it in Astroloma and not 

 11 Leucopogon. 



4- A. microphyllum, Stschegl. in Ball. Mosc. 1859, i. 7._ Branches 

 apparently spreading or diffuse, with numerous erect or ascending slightly 

 P'lbesceat branchlets. Leaves rather crowded, spreading, ovate lanceolate 

 or lanceolate-linear, minutely pointed, flat, rather striate, 1 to \\ Imes long, 

 entire or minutely scabrous-denticulate. Flowers sessile in the lower axda 

 Jl from leafless nodes at the base of the shoots. Bracts very small ; bracte- 

 oles uuder 1 line long. Sepals smooth, coloured, about 3 hues long. 

 ^wolla-tube about 3 lines long, with 5 tufts of hairs forming a dense ring 

 n«!de above the base, the throat hairy ; lobes erect and bearded mside, with 

 ^^•iitely acuminate spreading tips. 'Filaments short, flat; anthers long, 



