17^ LXVIT. KPACRIDEiE. [Bfacliylom. 



but often several at tlie base of the shoots, without subtending leaves. Pe- 

 (Heels very short, without any bracts except the 2 unequal bracteoles em- 

 bracing the calyx. Sepals ^ to f line long, usually ciliate. Corolla-tube U 

 to nearly 2 lines long, with a ring of long hairs inside reflexed from tlie 

 throat; lobes narrow, much shorter than the tube, acute and nearly valvate, 

 but 3 of them at least slightly dilated and overlapping the intermediate one 

 at the base, glabrous or very shortly bearded inside. Filaments very short; 

 anthers attached above the\niddle!^ Hypogynous disk 5-lobed. Ovary 5- 

 celled ; style short. Fruit small, globular.— %/?^^//rt: daphioides, Sm. Bot. 

 Nov. Holl 48 ; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 42 ; Lissanthe daphnoides, R. Br. Prod. 

 541; DC. Prod. vii. 743; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 466; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 

 248 ; Z. CunningJiamii, DC. Prod. vii. 743 ; L. ddlata, Knowles and Westc. 

 Fl. Cab. iii. 79 (from the description given). 



Queensland. Sandy Cape, E. Brown; Moreton island, F. Mueller; Mount Mitcliell, 

 Beckler. 



I\J S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Bleher, n. 100, and others ; near Bathnrst, 

 ^oolh; hi. George's Kange, A. Cmimnfjham ; iTew England, C. Stuart; sandy ridgts, 

 Cape Byron, C. Moore; and south\rard to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 

 ^^ ^/^*=f '■*?'• I^rainpians, Forest Creek, rocks on the Macalister river, and elsewliere m 



-.tralian Alps, ascending to 4000 ft., F. Mueller; ^Vendu vale, Robertson. 

 • mama ? IL Brown (Prod.). I have seen no Tasmanian specimens ; there are none 



lu Jirown s Herbarium, and Scott's authority, qnoted by J. D, Hooker, is founded ou a spe- 

 cuneu evidently incorrectly labelled in the Hookerian nerbarium. 



S. Australia. Tattiara country, Wood, 



EEDHAMIA 



^ Corolla-tube c^'IIudrical ; limb spreading, deeply divided into 5 lobes, 

 induplicate-valvate in the bud, with iuflexed tips, not bearded. Stamens 

 inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments veiy short; anthers 

 entirely included. Hypogynous disk cup-shaped. Ovary S-celled; style 

 short ; stigma capitate. Fruit a small, dry drupe, 1- or 2-seeded.— A sm^" 

 shrub. Leaves small, opposite or alternate. Flowers solitary in the upper 

 axils, without other subtending bracts than the floral leaf and 2 bracteoles. 



The single species is limited to W. Austraha. With the habit of some of the smfj 

 species of Leucopogon, \i is distinguished by the testivatiou of the eoroUa-Iobes and their 

 want of beards. 



1. IV. puniilio, R. Br. Prod. 549. An erect or diffuse shrub, wiA 



slender branches not exceeding 6 in. Leaves erect, often closely appressed, 



inear or linear-knceolate, acute or almost obtuse, concave or keeled, 1 to^ 



ines long Flowers at first forming a ahort terminal spike, the leaf-hke 



bracts eitber smaller and more cUiate than the upper stem-leaves, and =of 



of them coloured, others quite like the stem-leaies. and the axis ultimately 



irrOWS out into a Tivnlnnn-at;^., ^PlL- 1 i ... .', „ _:il„^ nt itS 



base. Bracteoles 1 

 thin, ciliate, scarcely 



llary at its 



-^ „ v^i ^„c ui.iuLii, wiin inc nowtJis ciai""*^ - 



inear, ciliate, as long as the calyx or even longer. Sepa's 

 . , - y above i Hue long. Corolla-tube 1 to 1^ lines long, fj 



lobes broad, shorter than the tube, the whole corolla glabrous, iuside and 

 OTit. Hypogyrious disk shortly lobed. Ovary pubescent; style exceedingly 



1. 6Zia; Monoioca pumilio, Spreng. Syst. i. 654. 



