leucojwffon.'] lxvii. epacride/t:. 185 



long. Corolla-tube mucli shorter than the calyx; lobes twice as long as the 

 tube. Anthers attached below the rather long, sterile tips. Hypogyuous 

 disk very short, truncate. Ovary 2-ceUed, tapering into a short style. 

 Fruit ovate, rather longer than the calyx. — DC. Prod. vii. 748 ; Sti/pIttUa 

 amplexicauUs, lludge in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 292. t. 8 ; F. Muell. Fragm. 

 vi. 44. 



N. S. "Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 92, and many others. 



4. L. alternifolius, E. Br. Prod. 543. A little glabrous sbnib, with 

 very slender, often filiform, asceudin"' ^^ '^'•'^'"t stpms. nf fi in. to 1 ft. Leaves 



sessile and clasping the stem wi.„ -- , . 



cordate-ovate, obtuse or with a small callous point, flat or slightly convex, 

 rarely above 2 lines and often not above 1 line long. Spites iu the upper 

 axils slender, interrupted, rather longer than the leaves. Bracts scarcely 

 above i Hne long ; bracteoles still smaller, sepals about f line, all rather acute. 

 Corolla not seen. Fruit ovate, obtuse, 2-celle(l, rather longer than the calyx. 

 —DC. Prod. vii. 748 ; Sti/pMia alter ni folia , Sprcng. Syst. i. 655. 



W. Australia. Heaths about W. Cape Howe, R. Broim. This elegant little species, 

 which I liave not seen iu any other coUeetioa, is like a miniatnre L. amplexicauiis. 



5- t,. lanceolatus, li. Br. Prod. 541. Usually a tall shrub or small 

 tree, qidte glabrous, but some varieties low and diffuse and others pubescent, 

 the branchlets rather slender. Leaves erect or spreading, lanceolate, tapering 

 at both ends, obtuse or with a callous point, flat, with fine nerves, ui some 

 spocuucas rarely exceeding 1 in., in others attaining 2 m. Spikes slender, 

 interrupted, soHtary in the upper axils or clustered at the ends of the branches, 

 often exceeding the leaves. Bracts and bracteoles striate, fully half as long 

 as the calyx. Sepals scarcely 1 line long, usually obtuse, but narrower than 

 m X. austraUs, and sometimes almost acute. Corolla-tube not exceeding the 

 Palyx ; lobes as long as the tube. Anthers attached immediately under tlie 

 prominent sterile tips. Hypot^ynons disk truncate, readily separating m to 

 d'stinct scales. Ovary 2 -celled, tapering into the rather short style Iruit 

 ovate-globose, red, shortly exceeding the calyx.-I)C. Pjo^l- /"• Jf ' J " 

 ^Juell. Fragm. iv. 124 ; Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 47; Bot. Mag. t. 3162 | %- 

 Pf'elia lanceolata, Sra. Bot. N. HoU. 49 (partly) ; F. Muell. T'r^^S™-^^^*^ ^ 

 L-audralis, Sieb. PI. Exsicc. (not of E. Br.); L. Cuuninghamii D^- -^ ^'l" 

 ^V- 7i5; L. affinis, R. Br. Prod. 511 ; DC Prod. vii. 745 ; StypheUa ajji- 

 *"' Spreng. Syst. i. 658. 



Queensland. Stradbroke Island, A. Cmmngham; Port Macquarrie, Backhouse; 

 Moreton Bay, F^V.~a/««. ^- ^ ^t^% FI 



hS; ®\^*1^«- Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown Steiern \m±. 

 Z -v- 1^*^' ^^•'S, and many others ; northward to Hastings and Mac e ay ^^^^'^'ff'': 

 New England, C. Stuart, zLMardt) Mount Lindsay, W. Btl/ ; southward to lUawaira. 

 ■^•^unimyha7n ; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller ; Gabo Inland, Majjiestone. 



Victoria. Snowy Hirer and ISIitta-Mitta, F. M.ieller. . „ 



- 'f^,'^ania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown. These specimens, upon which ^■J^'^'^ 

 TOBdedhis L. affinis, have certaiuly the flat leaves, the 2-Iocular, compressed fruit, and 

 otiier characters of L. lanceolatus. , . 



sn, if- ^?"^''- Branchlets very slender, more or less pubescent. I-^aves and tto^er 

 S-~lf ■ ^*'"'^'"ides, A. Cunn. ; DC. Prod. vii. 7ii. To this variety belong al!, 

 y all, the Queeuslaud specimcua. 



