188 Lxvii. EFACRiDE/E. , \Leucopogon. 



ColL n. 250, 5M CoH. n. 315, 317, Freiss, n, 393, 394, and many others; eastward to 

 Eyre's Relief and Cape le Grand^ Maxwell. 



The species is closely allied to Z. collinus, but has the ovary 5-celIed. L. rulncaidiSi 

 R. Br. Prod. 542 ; DC. Prod. vii. 746 {Styphelia ruhricauUs, Sprcng. Syst. i. 656), is a gla- 

 brous form, with rather short and broad leaves and a spreading habit, but passes very gra- 

 dually iuto the common one. Of L. villosus, R. Br. 1. c. ; DC. 1. c. {St^phella villosa, 

 Sprcng. Syst. i. 657), there is hut a single specimen in Brown's herbariuni; which oulv 

 appears to differ from the common form in being rather more pubescent, as in SonJer's va- 

 riety hirsutus of i. angustatus. The plants mistaken for Z. viUosus by Lindley and others 

 are quite different. Sfi/pJielia ohovata, Labill. PL N. Holl. i. 48. t. 67 {Leucopogon oh- 

 ovatus^ R. Bn 1. c. ; DC. 1. c), is evidently figured from an abnormally broad-leaved speci- 

 men of this species, but even in that the leaves can scarcely be said to be obovate, and tk 

 name, as observed by F, Mueller, is so totally inappropriate that it is better to retam 

 Brown's, which has, moreover, been generally adopted. 



10. L. atherolepiSy Stschegl in Bull. Mosc. 1859, i. 13. An erect 

 shrub, Avith virgate branches, gUxbrous or pubescent. Leaves linear, erect or 

 spreading, with a small callous point, the margins closely revolute, rarely 

 exceeding | in. and mostly under that. Flowers large for the genus, in short 

 spikes of 2 to 4, terminal or in the uppermost axils, forming usually a com- 

 pact leafy head or oblong spike-like panicle. Bracts, bracteoles, and sepals 

 rigid, acutely acuminate, minutely pubescent and striate, the sepals nearly 3 

 lines long and the bracteoles about 2 lines. Corolla-tube very short; lobes 

 nearly 3 lines long. Filaments thick; anthers linear, attached about the 

 middle, tapering to the recurved end, but obtuse and 2-valved to the end. 

 Hypogynous disk of 5 short broad glaiid-like scales. Ovary 5-furrowed, 5- 

 celled. Style short.— i. yrandlusculm or Styphelia grandiiiscula, F. Muell 

 Fragm. vi. 47. 



^ W. Australia, Bnmmojid, ^th ColL n. 305 (in some sets, 30G in others). This spe- 

 cies has the habit and very white corolla-beards of the Perojoce, and in the anthers connects 

 the sections Perqjoa and lleterantkesis, 



Var. denslflonis. Flowers rather smaller and more crowded, but much larger than m 

 X. revolutus, with the acute sepals and the anthers of L. atherolepis.—^iiv^'^g Range, X'- 

 Mueller > 



^ 11. L. reflexus, R. Br. Prod. 544. An erect shrub, with slender vir- 

 gate branches, our specimens glabrous or the youns shoots cottony and tw 

 branclilets slightly pubescent. Leaves closely reflexed or very spreading, 

 from ovate and under 1 line long to lanceolate and nearly 3 lines, obtuse or 

 with a minute callous point, very convex. Spikes short and dense, terminal 

 or m the uppermost axils. Bracts small ; bracteoles acute, about hall as 

 long as the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, acute, ]i lines long. CoroUa-tiiDe 

 shorter than the calyx ; lobes about 1 line long. Anthers attached above ttie 

 middle, with sterile tips. Hypogynous disk short, truncate. Ovary w- 

 pressed, glabrous, 5-angled, 5-celled, style short.— DC. Prod. vii. 749 ; Sonti. 

 m PI. Preiss. i. 314 ; Styphelia reflexa, Spreng. Syst. i. 655, not of Kudge, 

 S. Brownii, Spreng. Syst. (Index) v. 683 ; P. Muell. Fragni. vi. 32. 



, 'W- AustraUa. King George's Sound and adioininK districts, R. Brown, A. Cunning- 

 ham, Preiss, n. 398, and others. 



12. L. corifolins, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 15. An erect shrub, more or 

 less pubescent. Leaves linear or lanceolate, very spreading or reflexe( = 



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