190 LXVil. EPACRlDEiE. \^Leucopogon. 



short spreading hairs. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, with a small soft re- 

 curved point and revolute margins, 2 to 4 lines long or rarely narrower and 

 longer. Flowers in short spikes, terminal or in the upper axils. Bracts 

 about half as long as the calyx. Sepals broadly hxnceolate, acute, coloured, 

 hirsute and ciliate, about 1 line long. Corolla-tube very short j lobes about 

 1 line long. Hypogynous disk truncate. Ovary broad, flat-topped, obtusely 

 3- or 4-angled and 3- or 4-eelled ; style short. Fruit obovoid, longer than 

 the calyx, with 3 or rarely 4 broad prominent obtuse angles, and as many 

 cells and seeds. 



Victoria- Grampians, MitcJieU ; Victoria Range, F, Mueller, Dctcnniucd at first 

 by Liuilley as a distinct species, but afterwards referred by him (Mitch. Three Exped.) to 

 Z. vUlosuSy Br. (Z. revolutus^ var.), and miitcd by F. Mueller with L, collinus ; it is, 

 however, intermediate between the two as to the number of carpels, and differs from 

 both in being much more hirsntCj and especially in the remarkably prominent broad angles 

 of the ovary and fruit. 



16. I., cordatus, Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 313. An erect bushy shrub of 

 3 to 4 ft., with the foliage and aspect of L. squarrosus, usually glabrous. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, scarcely acute, spreading or recurved, flat or convex, 

 rigid, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines long. Sj)ikes short, dense, often reduced to 1 

 or 2 flowers, terminal or in the uppermost axils, forming short dense leafy 

 eorymbs. Bracts leaf-like, obtuse or scarcely acute ; braeteoles about half as 

 long as the calyx. Sepals 1 line long or rather more, obtuse, not ciliate. 

 Corolla-tube rather shorter than the calyx, marked inside about the middle 

 with a prominent ring; lobes IJ lines long, the white beards remarkably 

 long. Anthers attached above the middle, with recurved sterile tips, Hy- 

 pogj^nous disk 5-lobed. Ovary depressed, pubescent, 5-celled. Fruit rather 

 longer than the calyx, truncate and pubescent at the top. 



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17 ? If. Bossisea^ F. MiielL Fragm, vi. 47. An erect glabrous shrub 

 attaining 3 or 4 ft. (Maxtvell), Leaves distinctly petiolate, orbicular-cordate, 

 obtuse, flat, rigid, prominently veined, 1 to 2 lines diameter. Flowers small, 

 few together in short dense terminal spikes. Bracts very small; braeteoles 

 not half so long as tlie calyx, obtuse, striate. Sepals f line long, obtuse, 

 slightly coloured, not ciliate. Corolla nearly 1^ lines long, the lobes as long 

 as the tube. Anthers attached below the very short recurved sterile tips, 

 which are sometimes scarcely conspicuous. Hypogynous disk sinuate or ob- 

 tusely lobed. Ovary short, usually 4-celled, but pei^haps sometimes 5-celled; 

 sty e short.— Sii/pkelia Bossi(ea, F. MuclL 1. c. 



VS/". Australia. Termination granite rocks towards the Great Bight, Maxwelh This 

 species appears to have no immediate affinities ; the comparatively long petioles are those oi 

 L. pleurandroides, the flowers and inflorescence" are those of souje of the small-leaved spe- 

 cies with 2-celled ovaries, but hi all the flowers examined I have found 4 cells. 



Series 3. Collinjs. 



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short and dense or cylindrical and rather dense. Leaves flat or convex ffiti 

 recui-ved or revolute or thickened margins. Ovary 2-cclled. 



18. L. hirsutus, Sond. in Fl, Frem. i. 310. A slender procumbent or 

 trailing shmb, the branches and foliage hirgute. Leaves spreading, scattered, 



