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Cl/athodts.] LXVII. EPACUIDE.*. 169 



ceeding the calyx ; lobes sliorler than the tube, bearded along the centre, the 

 lower hairs longer and reflexed into the tube. Filaments rather tliick; 

 anthers linear, attached near the top. Disk truncate. Ovary 8- to 10- 



celled; style rigid, included in the coroba-tube. Fruit rather large, very 

 pulpy.— K. Br. Prod. 539; DC. Prod. vii. 740; Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. 245 ; 

 TrocJwcarpa glauca, Spreng. Syst. i. 660; Styphelia Billardieri, F. Muell. 



Fragm. vi. 43. 



Tasmania. Denvent Kiver, K Brota ; common iii the mountaiuous parts of the 

 island at aa elevation of from 1000 to 3000 ft., /. D, Hooker. 



2. C. straminea, R, Br, Prod. 539, A bushy shrub of 2 to 3 ft. 

 Leaves usually crowded towards the ends of the year's shoots nearly as in 

 t'. (jlauca, but sometimes rather more scattered, narrow-oblongj obtuse or 

 ^vith a small callous point, sli^^ditlv concave, glaucous underneath, rarelv ex- 

 ^eaiiig - in. or sometimes all under that length, and broadly oblong. 

 Flowers nearly sessile. Sepals 2 to nearly 3 lines long, obtuse, and minutely 

 ciliiite as well as the bracts. Corolla from 4 to nearly 6 lines long, the tube 

 exceeding the calyx, hairy inside towarils the throat ; lobes not half so long 

 as the tube, slightly bearded inside along the centre. Filaments rather thick ; 

 anthers attached near the top. Hypogynous disk trnncate. Ovary 5-celled; 

 style shorter than the corolla-tube* Fruit very pulpy.— DC. Prod. vii. 741 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 245 ; Styphelia utraminea, Spreng. Syst. i. 656 ; F. 

 -Huell. Fragm. vi. 43; Ci/athodes macrantJia, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 245. 



Tasmania. Mount Wellington, at an elevation of 4000 ft., R. Brown, J. D. Hooker; 

 wies of Mount Olympus, at 4000 to 5000 ft., Giinn; Meauaii YeXls, Archer ; western 

 ffiountaiDs, at 3000 to 4000 ft., C. Stuart. 

 ^^ Hooker's C. macrantha has narrower leaves and much larger flowers than the typical C. 



raiiUHea, but C. Stuart's speciniens are quite intermediate between the two. 



3- C. adscendens, Hook. f. in Eooh. Lond. Joiirn. vi. 268, and Fl. 

 Jffsw 1. 245_ ^ r^^^ ^ ^^^^j^ diffuse shrub, with numerous ascendiii-r 



oranehes of 6 to 8 in. Leaves crowded along the branches, oblong or 



a most ovate, obtuse or with a short callous point, flat or slightly incurved, 



Slaucoiis and striate underneath, ^ in. long or rather more. Flowers sessde, 



^or 3 together in the same axil or sometimes solitary, but always with an 



^lUitional rudiment. Bracteoles much shorter than the calyx. Sepals 



nitlier above 1 line lon<r, obtuse, striate. Corolla-tube not \\ lines long, 



"',,{ glabrous insider lobes short, recurved, densely bearded above the 



iKKiie. Filaments inserted below the throat; anthers attached near the 



'P. almost entirely included in the tube. Hvpoi^ynous disk separatmg into 



istinct truncate scales. Ovarv 5-celled; stvle short. Fruit small.— %- 



r'^t^^lfoo/ceri, F. iliiell. Fragm. vi. 44; Leucopogo>i, petlolarh,V>Q. Prod. 



1. /o3 (from the character given). 



xZtl^T'^''- Summit of Mount Wellington, /. D. Hooker and others ; western nioun- 

 l)e tr'an f "f '■ "^'"^ ^i'*^'^'*" *"»s the inflorescence of leacopogon, and ought, perhaps, to 

 tile atn / 1 ^" ^''"^ 8*=""* 5 '^'"'^ ^^e f''"'t ^s much more pulpy than iu any Leucopo(/on, and 

 P«ct and foliage are quite those of Cyalhodes. 



bn^* v\ *^®^l^ata, n. Br. Prod. 539. A small, ditfiise or prostrate, much- 

 aoched shrub. Leaves crowded alon? the branches, oblong-linear, obtuse, 



