J 



Mtroloma.] Lxvii. epacride^. 159 



W. Australia. Swan Hiver, Drummond, 1st Coll. n. 472, 474, Preiss, «. 419, 420; 

 Kalgan river, Oldfield, F. Mueller. 



^.foUosum, Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 297, very remarliable for its crowded, short, and very 

 narrow leaves, is, however, scarcely a variety, for the two states occur on different branches 

 of the same specimen. 



Var.? dilatatum. Leaves slightly dilated above the middle, and abruptly contracted into 

 a pnngent point. Calyx pubescent. Corolla, etc., of A. longiflorum. — A. dilatatum, Sond. 

 in PI. Preiss. i. 298.— Swan River, Drummond. 



18. A. pinifolium, Benth. A rigid, miicli-branclied shrub, sometimes 

 small or dilluse, sometimes erect and 2 to 3 ft. high, the branchlets usually 

 pubescent. Leaves crowded, very narrow linear, rigidly pointed, with rcvo- 

 hite, scabrous margins, about \ in. long. Flowers sessile and solitary in 

 each axil, but often crowded at the base of the branchlets. Bracts several, 

 the inner ones embracing the calyx, and passing into the bracteoles, which 

 are 3 to 4 lines long, broad, and obtuse. Sepals 5 to 6 lines long, broad, 

 obtuse, thin, scarcely striate. Corolla about | in. long, reddish at Uicbase, 

 passing into yellow with green tips, the tube without any tufts of hairs inside 

 near the base, but slightly hairv above the middle; lobes lanceolate or almost 

 linear, bearded inside towards the end. Filaments short and very flat; 

 anthers attached near the top, very obtuse. Hypogj'nous disk truncate or 

 shortly lobed. Stigma small. Truit globular, "enclosed within the some- 

 what enlarged Q.^\^^.~Stenantlera pinifoUa, K. Br. Prod. .538 ; DC. Prod. 

 ^1- 739; Hook. f. PL Tasm. i. 244; Bot. Peg. t. 218; Styphelia pmifolia, 

 Veng. Syst. i. 659 ; F. Muell. Pragm. vi. 36. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 70, and 



ot tiers. 



Victoria. Mount William, Grampians, up to 5000 ft. elevation, and Lake King in 



^m^ huxiA, F. Mueller. . 



Tasmania. Circular Head, Gmm«; Launceston, Zawmzw; St. Paul's Kiver, C. ^/^wr/. 



4. CONOSTEPHIUM, Benth. 



(Conostephiopsis, Stsche(^l.) 



Corolla-tube enclosed in or scarcely protruding from the calyx, more or 

 iess conical in the upper part, without scales or tufts of hairs inside, but 

 usually hairy towards the throat ; lobes very small, acute, valvate m the 

 ■^ud Filaments very short, inserted at the base of or below the cone of the 

 forolla; anthers included in the cone, elongated, deeply divided nito 2 lobes, 

 jomed by a short connectlvura. Hypogvnons disk of 5 distinct scales or 

 '^one. Ovary 5 -celled, with 1 ovule in 'each cell. Style usually slender, 

 ^'ih a smaU stigma. Fruit a neariy dry drupe, enclosed in the calyx, the 

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

 ^^ne habit and foliage of some species of Astroloma. Flowers solitary in the 

 JMs, usually pendulous. Pedicels with several bracts, of which 2 to 6 ot 

 ;ie enlarged inner ones pass into the bracteoles, and with them embrace the 

 ^«se of the calyx. 



the^n..^''"'' '' I'^^'^'i to S.W. Australia. It is allied to Adrohma, but readily ^^^ll 

 erM ?!f' ''''^ ^y the corolla. The conical portion of the latter represents Fo^^'jj' ^he 

 S^TT^ °^ ^^^ lo^^s iQ A^trolama ; but whilst in that genus these lol>«. ^^^""g,,^- 

 "'"'^t at the base, arc always distinct (at least, I have never seen them connate as hgured, 



