Leucopoffon.] Lxvii. epacride.t:. 191 



oblong, obtuse, slightly convex or with recurved margins, 2 to 4 lines long. 

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

 bracteoles obtuse, about half the length of the calyx. Sepals scarcely above 

 J line long, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla f line long, the lobes as long as the 



tube. Anthers attached below the short hooked sterile tips. Hypogjnous 

 disk sinuate-toothed. Ovary 2 -celled, but 1 ovule often already abortive at 

 the time of flowering. Fruit compressed-globular, oblique, rugose when 

 dry, about 1 line diameter, with a single seed. — Styphelia hirsida, F. Muell. 

 Fragra, vi. 31. 



W. Australia, Brummond, 1st Coll. n. 465 ; south-west side of Mount Clarence, 

 Preiss^ «.464, 



19. L. coUinuSj R. Br. Prod, 543. A shrub, sometimes erect and 3 

 to 4 ft. high with virgate branches, more rarely low and diff'use, nearly gla- 

 brous or softly pubescent. Leaves usually oblong or linear, obtuse or with 

 a short point, from very broad and scarcely 2 lines long to narrow and | in. 

 long, the margins recurved or revolute or probably nearly flat when fresh. 

 Spikes short and dense, terminal or in the uppermost axils or terminating 

 short leafy axillary branches. Bracts and bracteoles small. Sepals rather 

 hroad, obtuse, about 1 line long. Corolla rarely 2 lines long, the lobes about 

 as long as the tube. Anthers attached under the more or less prominent 

 sterile tips. Hypogynous disk truncate. Ovaiy 2-ceUed, tapering into a 

 very short style. Fruit very small, 1 -seeded by abortion or rarely both seeds 

 pcrfected.~DC. Prod. vii. 748; Hook. f. Fl. Tasra. i. 250; StypheUa coU 

 ^^ina, Labill. PI. N. Holl. i. 47. t. 65 ; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 45 ; Leucopogou 

 cdiatus, A. Cunn. ; DC, Prod. vii. 746 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 251. t. 75 A, 



N.S. Wales (?), Mouut lml3,\, Z. Morion. The specimens are very young and 

 somewhat doubtful. The ovary appears to he that of X. collinus, hut the sepals are more 



Victoria. Avou river; snowy plains, Mitta-Mitta, and Cabonga Mountains, F. 



Tasmania, Labillardihre ; Port Daliymple and Derwent river, E. Brown ; abundant 

 throughout the island in dry gravelly places, etc., /. D, Hooker. 



The commonest form in Tasmania is erect, shrubby, and slightly pubescent. From 

 moontam grassy situations the specimens show a small diiTuse plant with slender branches 

 and small almost flat leaves, Cunningham's specimens of L, cillatus have more the babit 

 and longer leaves of the common form, but they are nearly flat. They answer very well to 

 J^abiiJardiere's own specimens. 



uvW'"^ **^/^^^, Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 296, t. 19 ; DC. Prod, vii 736, of 

 «^ich I Lave been unable to find the original specimen, appears, from the plate and descnp- 

 "on, to be Leucopogon coUinus. 



20. L. glacialis, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 127- A small erect 

 or diffuse shrub with pubescent branches. Leaves often crowded, erect or 

 spreading, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate-denticulate, much 

 J^isted m the dried state, 3 to 4 lines long. Spikes short, terminal and m 

 p uppermost axils. Bracts strongly striate, and bracteoles about half as 

 P S as the calyx. Sepals about I'line long, narrow but obtuse, ciliate. 

 ^orolia-tube very short ; lobes about 1 line long. Anthers attached below 

 ™ very short sterile tips. Hypogynous disk truncate or obtusely lobed. 

 Ovary 2.celled ; style very short. 



