LeucopogonJ] Lxvii. epacride.^. 177 



above the middle, without tufts of hairs or scales helow the mi(hlle ; lobes 

 yalvate in the bud, spreading or recurved in the upper portion, the whole 

 inner surface, or rarely the lower portion only, densely bearded. Filaments 

 inserted at the top of the tube, short, filiform; anthers wholly or partially 

 enclosed in the tube or erect base of the corolla-lobes, llypogynous disk 

 cup-shaped, truncate, 54oothed, 5-lobed or formed of 5 distinct scales (none 

 m I. esqmmatus). Ovary nsually 2- 3- or 5-celled (in one species 1-cellcd 

 and two others often 6- to 10-celled) ; style from very short to longer than 

 the corolla-tube ; stigma small, rarely larger and peltate. Fruit a drupe, the 

 mesocarp sometimes pulpy but usually thin, the cndocarp crustaceous or hard, 

 TOh as many cells and seeds as in the ovary or fewer by abortion. — Shrubs 

 of various habit, rarely rising into small trees. Flowers small, rnrely | in. 

 lo^^g, in small spikes (or very rarely racemes), terminal or axillary, sometimes 

 inany-flowered, sometimes reduced to few or a single one, but the rhachis al- 

 ways ending in the nidimcnt of an additional one ; each flower sessile or 

 jarely pedicellate within a subtending bract (deficient in L.flavescens), with 

 bracteoles close under or rarely at a little distance from the calyx. 



The 

 some 



\ geuus, chiefly Australian, is represented filso by a few species in New ZealanJ 



islands of tlip Mnlo,-o« A^^vr i- ^ o..,il, T>.»;p„ TU-o lAa^nyifhp \t w nnl 



auil 



r";. ^?^^'"^.s of the Malayan Archipelago and South PaciSc. Like Lissanthe it is only to 



e aistinguished from Ci/athodes either by the compound inflorescence or by the less pulpy 



ttu or by both characters, and would perhaps have been better united with that genus, 



is sni ^^^ ^^^* *^^ change would now produce so much incouvenicace. From Lissanthe \i 



n T^M ^""^^^"^^^y separated by the bearded coroHa-lobes. 

 Ieri7^ t^Ps of the anthers, by which the first section of the genus is chieily charac- 



anth %^ ^^"letimes exceedingly short but usually of a paler colour than the rest of the 

 tremor f V ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ i^ no discoloration, but they form a- perfectly rounded ex- 

 The h ^^ither, not tnincate or emarginate as is the open anther iu the other sections. 



esD^ n '^^f ^ derived from the hypogynous disk are not always very constant in species, 

 other ^ '^^' ^^^""^ ^^ ^^v approach to nnisexualitv as in L. Eooken and a very few 

 scuU ^^.^j^'^^'^"^ generally disks which are at first entire tend to separate into distinct 

 imt o*^.! flowering advances. The number of cells of the ovary is more constant, but 



cell Tl u,^^' ^^^ 2-celled species may in some flowers (though very rarely) add a third 

 fnnrtr ^"'^ 5-celled ones are occasionaJlv reduced to 4, or the 3-celled ones may add a 



^ot strictly 



fou^r'' {^^',^^-^*^^J^^ ones are occasionally .. — ^^ .^ ^, ^. 



Thp 11 ^^^ number of cells is very frequently reduced by abortion. 



ticulnrif ' . ^^'^'■'^ ^^'hich lines the corolla-lobes and su-gested the generic name is par- 

 dPn.l r '"'.^^P^cuons in nearly the whole of the first sectfon. It is then very white and 



kd CT l""^ ^'^ *^^ "PP*^r portion of the lobes of long straight hairs inflexed m the 

 those .Mr'i ''^'" *^^ ^'^^^'*^»' expands, below this the hairs are woolly and intricate, and 

 hma T ^^^ ""^ *^^ l^^e ^J-e sometimes more or less reflexed into the tube as in Bfarhy- 

 Wd J« 1 'T'^ ^^^""'^^ 0^ the second and third sections, and a very few of the hrst, the 

 H is omf '"'^' ^"'^ ^o^Jb\ and not so white; in others of the second and third sections 

 lobes. ^ as m the first; in L. verticillaUa it occnpies only the lower half of the 



priStn''?^'' ^^"^'^^^ "^"^e of Perojoa, contracted by Persoon to Feroa, is undoubtedly 

 the suLnfT^''-^^^'' ^^^ 't does not appear for what reason it was rejected by Brown, but 

 ^Qmntinn J'^''^ ^^''^^POf/on has now been so long and so universally adopted, that the 

 practical aJvant'^"'^'^' ^^^'^pt as sectional, would ouly create confusion without a single 



'*«« Jh}\S,'^°^°^—^''Mescence chief u or entirely terminal, rarely all axillary, and 

 *hrt. ^'^'^' ^'^^> 'lender and interrupted. Anthers with sterile tips. Style very 



r 



^^ /o^j^i^A*l^'^^^^^c^y3e.-~3;p2^^* slender, interrupted, axUlanj or terminal, usually 

 "^OL TV ^ '^^^ ^f^^^'esflat or convex. 



