Uucojjogon.l Lxvii. epacride^. 189 



ratlier acute or obtuse, with closely revolute margins, 1| to 3 lines lon^. 

 Spikes terminal, short dense and few-flowered. Bracts obtuse, short ; brac- 

 teoles half as long as the calyx, acute, pubescent. Sepals about 1 line long, 

 rather acute, pubescent, ciliate. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes twice as 

 long as the tube. Anthers attached below the prominent sterile tips. 

 Ovary, small, broad, 5 -celled ; style short.— Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 317. 



W. Australia. Peaty soil amidst dense thiclicts near Albany, Trelss, n. 399 (Herb. 

 Sonder). This species requires further coufirmation from more perfect specimens. It may 

 prove to be a variety of L. reflexus. 



13. L. distans, R. Br. Trod. 54-4. An erect shrub of 3 or 4 ft., with 

 slender elongated branches, glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves ovate-cordate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or with a minute callous point, spreading or re- 

 flexed, very convex or with revolute margins, the nerves impressed on the 

 upper surface, 1 to 2 lines (mostlv \\ lines) long. Spikes terminal and in 

 the uppermost axils, 1 to l\ in. long in the normal form, with distant 

 flowers and a flexuose rhachis, forming a short terminal panicle, usually hoary- 

 pubescent. Bracts small, striate ; bracteoles smooth, very broad and obtuse, 

 not half as long as the calyx. Sepals about 2 lines long, hoarj'-pubescent 

 'ind ciliate, rather broad but usually acute. Corolla-tube nearly as long as 

 tte calyx ; lobes twice as long as the tube, the beard very long and dense. 

 Anthers linear, attached above the middle, with prominent sterile tips. Hy- 

 PogJ-nous disk truncate, readily separating into distinct scales. Ovary o- 

 celled ; style short. Pruit broad and fiat, not exceeding the calyx.—DU 

 Prod. vii. 748 ; Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 313 ; Styphelia distans, Spreng. Syst. 

 1. 655; p. Muell. Pragm. vi. 32. 



W. Anstralia. King Georse's Sound and adjoining districts, Mendes, Baxter 



reiji.i'y, Qon n f .-, , A' ,^ inn eji n^ii „ Qlfi nnrl nthers. In some 01 



P 



Prummond's specimens the fruit is obovoid and much exceeding the calyx, but apparently 

 m a monstrous state without seed. 



Var. contractus. Spikes short, with the flowers near together. Sepals rather more ob- 

 tuse Anther-tips shorter.-L. penicil/atus, Stschegl. in Bull. Mosc. 1859 i. 12.--D«^:- 

 *"ond,htA Con. n.SU. Stirling Ran-e, F. Mneller.-Inteim^dMc txs it were, between 

 ^ distans and Z. refexus, with the folia-e and larger tlowers of the former, but the inflo- 

 rescence almost as much contracted as in "the latter. 



14. Usihhosvis, St.c/ieffl. in Bull. 3Iosc. 1859,1.12 An erect bushy 

 ^hmb of 1 to 2 ft., the brauchlets pubescent. Leaves broadly orbicular, 

 obtuse or with a small reflexed point, very convex with recurved margins, 

 mostly reflexed and rarely above 1 line diameter. Spikes shorthand dense, 

 terminal or in the upper axils. Bracteoles thin, broad, ciliate, hirsute, more 

 than half as long as the calyx. Sepals ciliate and hii-sute, almost acute, 

 about 1 hue long. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes about 1 line long. An- 

 thers attached above the middle, with very short sterile tips. Hypogynous 

 scales truncate, distinct or slightly cohering. Ovary in all the flowers ex- 

 'immed 3.celled ; style short. 



,,,^- AustraUa, Drummoud, Zrd Coll. n. 74, hth Coll. n. 310 ; limestone hiUs and 

 ^^ads Point Irwin, Doubtful Island Bay, Oldfield; Cape Riche, ^«;T^;Kojoaivp Middle 

 Woont Barren, Fitzgerald and Phillips rivers, Ma.rweU ; Stirling Range, F. Muelle>. 



12. L. thymifolius, Lindl. ms. An erect shrub, hirsute all over with 



