162 LXVII. EPAC1UPE.E. [ileHchrus. 



reduced to a small cone ; stigma terminal, small. Fruit a drupe, with a (Iry 

 or slightly pulpy mesocai'p and a hard, bony endocarp, with 5 cells and seeds 

 or fewer by abortion. — Leaves sessile, lanceolate. Flowers solitary in tho 

 axils, sessile, snrroumled by several bracts, of which the 2 innermost are en- 

 larged, and, as well as the still larger bracteoles, embrace the base of the 

 calyx. 



The genus is limited to Eastern Australia. It is allied to Astroloma and to Leucopogon, 

 distinguished from the former hy the shape of the corollii, from the latter by its larger 

 flowers and more developed bracts, from both by the glandular scales inside the corolla- 

 tube. 



Leaves ciliate, sprinkled with long hairs. Calyx (when open) broadly 



canipanulate. Corolla shorter than the calyx, the tube very short . 1. M. roiatus. 



Leaves without lonu; hairs. Calvx ovoid. Corolla exceeding the calyx, 



the tube nearly as long as the lobes . . . . , 2- -^- nrceoJatus. 



1. M. rotatus, R. Br, Prod. 539. A low, procumbent shrub, with 

 short, ascending branches. Leaves crowded, sessile, lanceolate, tapering into 

 a long and fine bnt not pungent point, flat, ciliate with long, soft haus, and 

 hairy on both sides or at length glabrous and shining above, ^ to f or some- 

 tiuies almost 1 in. long. Bracteoles about 3 lines long. Calyx ovoid m 

 bud, but broadly campauulate when the flower is expanded, softly pubescent, 

 the sepals ovate, acute, ciliate, about 3 hues long. Corolla scarcely so loug 

 as the calyx, the tube exceedingly short, witli 5 large scales densely ^^^'^^ 

 with prominent glands^ alternating ^vith the staniens inside ; lobes bi'oac ) 

 lanceolate, glabrous except a few long hairs at the tip, expanded into a 

 rotate limb when the flower is open. Hypogynous disk very short, thick', 

 and fleshy.— DC. Prod. vii. 740 ; Veuttnaiia prociimhem, Cav. Ic. iv. 28. t. 

 349. f, 1 (partly); StypMla procumhens, Pers. Syn. i. 174; Styphelia rotata, 

 F. Muell. Fnigm. vi, 38. 



Queensland. Sandy Cape, R. Brown, i 



N. S. liVales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brovcn, Slehn; n- %^\ 

 others; Newcastle, Lelchhardt ; New Eii;,^land, C, Stuart, Cavanilles' figure is a go ^ 

 general representation of the plant, but the flower and the analysis must have been ta 

 from some Astroloma, 



2. M. urceolatus, 7?. Br. Prod, 539. An erect slirnb of 2 to 3 ft. o^ 



rarely low and diffuse like M, rotatus. Leaves crowded or densely inihnca e, 

 or especially the floral ones loosely spreading, lanceolate, rigid, tapering i» 

 a fine pungent point, glabrous or rarely pubescent, from under i i>3. 

 nearly 1 in. long. Bracteoles about 1| lines long. Calyx ovoid, ^lahi'^^ ' 

 or pubescent, the sepals rigid, obtuse, nearly 3 lines long, often f^^^^^j^ 

 Corolla-tube broad, shorter than the calyx, with the same glamlulai' sea 

 inside as in M. rotatus; lobes lanceolate, rather longer than the tube a^^^ 

 exceeding the calyx, recurved at the end but not rotate, bearded or neai 

 glabrous inside. Hypogynous disk short, thin, truncate.— DC. P^'od. • 

 740; M. medim.M, erubescen.% nv.il M. adpressus, A. Cunn. in DC J- " 

 Styphelia nrceoUta, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 38, 



Queensla^id, TF. /////; near Warwick, Berh. F. Mueller; ridges on the Burue 

 river, P. Mueller. ^ . } 



. S. Walea. Newcastle, n. Brown ; in the interior about Bathurst, I^"^J^p 

 Plains, etc., A, €an7iinyham ; head of the Gwydir, Boyd river, Leichhardt ; httwee 



