1G6 Lxvir. EPACRIDE^. ITrocJiocarpa. 



\. T. laurina, R. Br. Prod. 543. A tree of 20 to 30 or even 40 ft., 

 c(iute glabrous. Leaves usually clustered at the ends of each year's shoots, 

 so_ as to appear almost verticillate, petiolate, broadly oval or elliptical, acu- 

 minate, shining, 5- to 7-nerved on both sides, mostly 14 to 2 in. long. 

 Flowers small, white, in terminal, solitary or clustered, interrupted spikes, 

 f to 1 in. long. Bracts small ; bracteoles obtuse, not half so long as the 

 calyx. Sepals \ line long or rather more, obtuse, striate. Corolla-tube 

 about 1 line long ; lobes shorter than the tube, bearded to the middle as 

 well as the upper part of the tube with reflexed hairs. Hypogynous disk 

 shortly lobed. Ovary tapering into a short style. Drupe deprcssed-glo- 

 bidar, 3 to 4 lines diameter, the pyrenes less readily separable than in the 

 other species.— DC. Prod. vii. 758 ; Bot. Mag. t. 8324 ; F. Muell. Fragm. 

 VI 57 ; Cyathodes laurlna. Budge In Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 293. t. 9 (%- 

 fhtUa cormfolia on the plate). 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Fraser, F. Mueller. 



w.a. w^ales. Port Jackson, R. Brown aud others; northward to Hastiass anJ 

 Clarence rivers. Buckler, fFilcox ; New England, C. Stuart; Head of BelUnt^er river (a 

 small and narrow-leaved, stunted variety), C. Moore j southward to lUawarra, 5//d'z;/..T</. 



2. T. disticha, Spre»ff. S^sL i. 660. A tall shrub, with slender 

 branches, quite glabrous in the original form. Leaves very shortly petiolate, 

 spreading and somewhat distichous, from broadly ovate-lanceolate to narroir 

 Oblong-lanceolate, acute or almost obtuse, shining above, 3- or 5-nerved un- 

 Uemeatli, ^ to 1 in. long. Flowers red, in dense, terminal, recurved spikes 

 ot a to ^ in. Bracts very small ; bracteoles about half as long as the calyx, 

 ftepais about 1 hue long, broad, striate. Corolla campanulate, the tube 

 about 3 hues long, the lobes short, recurved, with a dense tuft of long hairs 

 1 M if /^flexed into the tube, otherwise glabrous. Hypogynous disk 

 shorty lobed. Fruit bluish-purple, succulent, with 10 distinct pyrenes.-- 

 Cyal/wdes dMu>, Labill. PI. Nov. Roll. i. 58. t. 82 ; Becasporl dUlcU, 

 R. Br. Prod. 548 ; DC. Prod. vii. 758 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 354. 



Tasmania. Recherche Bay, Labillardihe and others; South Port, O. Stuart. 



sJrTr!:!'!!""f^-'in ^'''''^^''t 'li'-^'K'^- leaves usually but not always smaller.-i)^«- 



-Macmnrrf/R T' ^^-F'^^- ']'■ 758 ^ ^eless. le. Sel. v^. 25 ; Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. i. 25i. 

 — iviacquarrie H.irhmir J r'„„„,v„x t? /. . .' . _ . i -vr,„,it 



Olympus, Gunti. 



.J UP 1 7"!^'.°^'^ ^^'''"^- ^^'^- i- <560. A low and diffuse or bushy 

 Shrub ot 1 to 2 ft., the branches usually pubescent. Leaves more petiolate 

 tlian lu other speces, ovate to broadly oblong, obtuse or with a short callous 



,^ deiCatC i' tf r iitf iot^"?r ^^^^^'> '-''' ^^^ "';n T";":f 



*.nrvprl ^r!,'!. *• il ?• ^^ ^^^^^'^rs "1 dcusc, terminal, cyliudncal, re- 



^en.ls Sn t S r' *°/ '''■ . ^''''' '-^"^ bracteoles very short, broad, ciliol.te. 



kfP ilt^vl T ''fu^' ^T^' "^^^"^^' ^°5«^'i-^'l- Corolla-tube campanu- 



FKnoifnn ^^ r'"f ^}' ''^^^ ' ^^^^^^ '^''''^''- ^I'^u tlie tubc, bearded inside. 



B.. liod. o48; DC. Prod. vii. 758; Hook. f. fl. Tasm. i. 254. 



iZ^.Tlluart. ^'™"'" °^ '^^°""^ Wellington, K. Bro,:n, T. D. Hooker; Western Mo^u- 



