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LXVii. EPACKlDK.K. [Ci/athodes. 



recurved towards the end, glabrous or bearded inside. Filaments inserted at 

 the top of the tube, short, filiform or somewhat thickened; anthers wholly or 

 partially enclosed in the tube or the erect base of the corolla-lobes. Hypo- 

 gvnous disk cup-shaped or annular, trancate, 5-Iobed or consisting of s'dis- 

 tmct scales. Ovary 5-celled or in one species 8- to lO-celled; style not 

 exceeding- the corolla-tube ; stigma small. Fruit a baccate drupe, the meso- 

 carp pulpy, the endocarp hard and bony, with 5 cells and seeds or fewer by 

 abortion, or m one species 6 to 10.— 'Shrubs, usually much branched low 

 and prostrate, but sometimes tall and almost arborescent. Leaves in most 

 species white or hoary underneath. Flowers small, solitary in the axfls, ter- 

 nunating short peduncles, with several imbricate bracts, the uppermost gra- 



dually enlarged and embracing the base of the calyx. 



The geuns extends over eastern Australia, New Zealand, the eastern Archipelago, audi 

 Pacihc Islauds. Of the eight Australian species, one only, a maritime one, is also in K 

 Zealand, the others are all endem' -■ ^' 



(Ithe 



be ng gradually en arjred to the 2 uppermost, which, although unequal and not diifereat ia 

 insertion from tjie lower ones, must prohably, nevertheless, be considered as bracteoles ; and 

 ^except .n C acfscendens) I have never found the rudimentary flower which in Leucopognn 

 teuninates the spike or raceme above the last flower and its subtending bract. 



Leaves from oval- elliptical to oWong-linear, obtuse or miuutely mucro- 

 nate, white underneath. 



1 . C. yiauca 



'^^\tilt °'" ^''''' ^^^""^ """'"^ '"^"^^ ' '"■ ^''"S- Ovary 8- to 1 0- 

 ^"'^iSeUer*'"^' '''™^'' ' ^"*" "^°^''b'«n^cr'i i"n. iong. ' Ovary 

 Leaves mostly 5- or 7-nerved underneath. 



Erect bushy, shrub. Corolla-lobes bearded along the centre. 



Disk truncate .... 2. C. strannnea. 



Diffuse shrub Corolla-lobes bearded above the middle. Disk 



of 5 distinct scales 3 c. adscendtns. 



^ Leaves mostly ] - or 3-nerved underneath. Prostrate shrub. Disk 



5-lobed 

 Leav 



4. C. dealhaia^ 



hlrd "°^^;;-'^''"^^fl«te, green on both sides, v;ry"rigid, with a short; 



haid not pungent point ' , V 5 C. abietina. 



Leaves linear or lanceolate-subulate, tapering into a pungent poiu't ' ' ' 



^\12-C *° ' '"■ ^°°^- ^«^<l""'^l«^« ^ to 2 lines. Corolia-i;be"s h^iry 



T '"'''^'^ ;, \ •• ; . 7 C. divaricate- 



brous"'" ^ ' '"■ ^°"°- ^'^'''''^'' ''^y ^li'"-*- Corolla-lobes gla- 



g, C. pctrvifoi^' 



1. C. glauoa, LahUl. PL Nov. IIoll. i. 57. t. 81. Usually a weak 



rjZfrV}''''l ""'^T^^ ''''' ^""^ ''"'••'■"'■"S sometimes 30 to 40 ft. {LabiB^- 

 ;.n.?K ;i r ' t !?'''"' ?' *^' branchlets minutely pubescent. Leaves 

 mosty clu tered at the ends of the year's shoots so as to appear almost 

 whorled, oblong-linear, mmutely mucronate, entire sliojitlv convex glaucous 

 underueath, most y f to 1 in lon-r K„f t sii^itiy toiives, n . 



i,,.^.,!^,. ■b^ • 1 , :?^' ""•■ ^ i<^^' occasionally much shortei auu 

 Sn, t 'fl ?r"' " ?°' 1 ''^'''^'' ^'"^^^'-^^^ ^th the floral leaves, and umch 

 !^iin h r\ ^T^' ^'"'"^ ' ^'"^^ l«"g. «^tuse. and minutely ciliate 

 as well as the bracts. Corolla 3 to H lines long, the tube very shortly e.- 



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