Fenfarhondra.'] LWii. EPACRlDKil^. 165 



slioot, which exist in most Epacrtders, but are almost ahvays very deciduous. 

 Perfect leaves clustered at the end of e;ich year's shoot, as in Cyathodes 

 glama and C. straminm^ petiolate, linear, shortly mucronate, with thick re- 

 volute niardns, 3 to 3 lines loner. Flowers 2* or 3 to^^ether besides the 



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d. — C7 *J 



uneut, ui a short spike, at first terminal, but becoming lateral by the de- 



^'elopment of the new leaf-bud. Bracts and bracteoles acuniinatej ciliate, more 

 than half as longf, and sometimes nearly as long, as the calyx. Sepals ob- 

 long, 1^ lines Ion*;:, ciliolate, fringed. Corolla-tube scarcely so long as the 

 ciilyx ; lobes nearly 1 line long, bearded inside. Anthers included in the 



tube. Hypogynous scales distinct. Ovary 5-celled ; style very short. Frui t 

 unknown. 



Tasmania. Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, Mllligan, Until the nature of the 

 'ruit is ascertained, it remaius in some measure doubtful wliether this should be referred to 

 Pentaehondra, to Leacopogon^ or to Cyathodes. 



7. TROCHOCARPA, R. Br. 



(Decaspora, R, Br.) 



^ Corolla-tube cylindrical or cauipanulate, glabrous or with reflexcd hairs 

 iiiside at the top; lobes usuallv shorter than the tube, recurved, glabrous or 

 liearded inside. Filaments inserted in the top of the tube, short, filiform ; 

 anthers attached at or near the top, partially included in the tube or recurved 

 ^itli the lobes. Hypogvnous disk truncate, lobed or separating into distinct 

 scales. Ovary lO-celled, with 1 ovule in eacli cell ; style rather thick, 

 usually short 5 stigma small. Fruit a globular or depressed drupe, the meso- 

 t^arp pulpy, the endocarp separating or separable into 10 (or fewer by abor- 

 ^^0") distinct pyreues. — Shrubs. Leaves usually petiolate, flat or convex, 

 -rlowers several together in spikes, either terminal or in the axils of the pre- 

 Vious year's leaves, or lateral on the old wood, each flower sessile within the 

 'niall subtending bract and two bracteoles. 



, "^^^.geiiiis is limited to Australia. It differs from Leiicopogon \\\ the separable pyreues of 

 f i™* ' ^^^ corolla-lobes are also in some speeies beardless, and the increased number of cells 

 , t^c ovary is very rare in other St^fpheliecB. I have followed F. MueUer in unitmg the 

 ^'l^o genera, the close affinity of which Brown himself had pointed out, uotwithstauding the 

 ^nerent aspect which the looser inflorescence and large leaves give to the T. lauruia. Ihe 

 i^ree species since added form a third ^n'oun, as different from the two others as these are 

 irom each other. "" 



Spikes slender, interrupted, chiefly terminal. Leaves large. Corolla- ^ ^ ^ . 



tube cylindrical . ! . . I. T. /aunna. 



P^es dense, terminal, cylindrical, recurved. Corolla-tube ca-npanulate. 

 ^-eaves ovate-lanceolate to oblons, strondy nerved, flat or slightly 



_ *^<^^cave, Ho 1 in. Ion 

 Ajeaves nv^f^ »i . 



fcj 



2. T. disticha. 



SdR^^^? ov'ite, obscurel) nerved, very couvei, rarely exceeding 2 lines 3. T. thymifoha. 



PU>-e» dease, nearly globular, iu the i)revious year's axils or termmating 



snort brauchlets. Leaves strotis'lv uerved. Fruit smooth aud 

 succulent. 



t!iT' f"^"^ ^*i'"^- Corolla-tube 2 Hues Ion- ^- ^- '^'<''''^': 



Sui\ ^^' "''• Corolla-tube 1 line long . . " 5. 71 Guana. 



IIM ' f«^«'-flo«ered, chiefly ou the old wood. Truit smaH, with 



|'"'e pulp, proinineutly 10-ribbed. Western species 6. r. parvijlora. 



I ;, f °^"y is 6- to lO-celled also in Cyathodes jiauca, iu Leucopojun phirilocnJatus and 

 ■P'fio^pennug, and in Jcrotrlcke aggreguta^j 



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