196 Lxvii. EPACKiDEiE, ILeucopoijon, 



^V. Australia. Lucky Bay, H. Brown, Baxter ; Konkoberup liills. Cape Eichc, 

 Preiss, n, 40G ; Mount Mdville, F, Mueller; towards Cape Riche and round Cape And 

 to Cape Paisley, Maxwell. 



Drnmrnotid's specimens, 5th Coll. n. 325, with narrow leaves, 3 to 5 lines long, seem al- 

 most to connect this with i. tenuis ; on the other hand, those with short, hroad leaves 

 come near to X. striatus. L, ovatus, Soud. in PL Preiss. i. 319, from Preiss's collectiou» 

 u. 375, seems to he a smaU-leaved state of the same species, but the specimen I have seen i3 

 a mere fragment. 



Series 5. OpposixiFOLiiE.— Spikes all terminal or also in the uppermost 

 axils, short and dense. Leaves all opposite^ small, erect, linear, obtuse. 

 Ovary 2-celled. 



32. L. opponens, Z Mndh Fragm, vi. 48. An erect sbriib, of about 

 2 ft,, with slender, virgatc branches, glabrous or sprinkled as well as the fo- 

 liage with short, spreading hairs. Leaves distinctly petiolate, all opposite, 

 erect, obtuse, with thickened or recurved margins, so as to be 2-farrowea 

 underueath, mostly 2 to 3 lines long. Spikes short, dense, terminal or in 

 the uppermost axils. Bracts broad, concave, mostly opposite, shorter than 

 the bracteoles; bracteoles about half as long as the calyx, alarost acute, 

 keeled. Sepals 1 J to 1^ lines long, ratlier acute, scarcely coloured, minutely 

 ciliolate. Corolla scarcely 2 lines long, the lobes rather longer than the tube. 

 Anthers attached below the short sterile tips. Hypogynous disk obtusely 

 lobed. Ovary 2-celled ; style very short. — Styphelia opponens, F. Muell. i.e. 



AV. Australia. Sandy places, Phillips river, MaxwelL 



33. L. oppositifolius, Sand, in PL Freiss. i, 316. An erect, heath- 

 like shrub of 1 ft. or more, with slender branches, glabrous or pubescent a^ 

 well as the foliage. Leaves all opposite, erect, narrow-linear or almost linear-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, concave and keeled, 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers in very short 

 terminal spikes. Bracts like the leaves, but smaller, and the lower ones op- 

 posite; bracteoles narrow, obtuse, about half as long as the calyx. ^^P^^ 

 1 line long, lanceolate, rather obtuse, usually coloured. Corolla about 

 lines long, the lobes as long as the tube. Anthers attached under the pro- 

 minent sterile tips. Hypogynous disk truncate or lobed, and readily sepa- 

 rating into distinct scales.' Ovaiy small, 2-celled; style very short.— ^y" 

 phelia opposllifoUa, F. Muell. Pragm. vi. 32. 



W. Australia. King George's Sound, Preiss, «.380, 400 ; Stirling range, F- i^J-^^_ 

 Jer; also in Maxwell's collection, without the precise station. The leaves lu all \^^ /^.j^,j 

 mens seen are constantly opposite, but possiLly L. laaiopJiyllus may he only a variet) 

 larger leaves mostly alternate. 



SETIIE3 6. CoxcuRV^.— Spikes all terminal or also in the ^iPP^^/^^^J; 

 short and dense or cylindrical and ratlier dense. Leaves more or less c 

 cave or keeled. Ovary 2-cclled. 



3-i. L. tamariscinus. It. Br. Prod, 544. An erect shrub of 3 to ^ 



ft., with virgate brandies and often numerous short branchlets, Sj^^^^^^^. 

 - sprinkled with a few hairs. Leaves erect, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, c^^^ 

 cave, often dilated near the base and almost embracing the stem, the larger 

 on the main branches often 2 to 3 lines lon^^, those on the smaller, slen 



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