Leucopogon!] Lxvii. epacride.e. 197 



braiiclilets under 1 line, all usually tuniing black in drying, and tlie upper 

 ones passing into the bracts. Spikes terminal, cylindrical and slender, 

 many-flowered, | to 1 in. long. Bracts like the stena-leaves, but smaller ; 

 bractcoles broad, shortly acuminate, not half so long as the calyx. Sepals 

 tinder 1 line long, rather acute. Corolla \\ to nearly 1-| lines long, the lobes 

 equal to or ratlier longer than the tube. Anthers attached below the minute 

 sterile tips. Hypogynous disk obtusely lobed or the scales quite distinct. 

 Ovary 2-celled | style short.— DC. Prod. vii. 749; Styplielia tamarkciua, 

 Sprang. Syst. i. 656 ; Lencopogon parvifoUtis, DC. Prod. vii. 752; Z. vagi- 

 nans, Solid, in PL Preiss. i. 315. 



W". Australia. King George's Sountl, B. Brown, A, Cunningham^ Baxter, Drum- 

 ^ond; Mount Mekiile, F. Mueller; near Cape Eiche, //^?T^y ; Pkillips river, Maxwell ; 

 also from Roe's coUection, Preiss, n. 3S2* 



35. L. bracteolaris, BentJi. An erect shrub, with glabrous or pu- 

 bescent branches. Leaves erect, ovate to broadly obfaiiceolate, obtuse^ or 

 with an obtuse callons point, concave and often embracing the stem, ciliate 

 with fine hairs, the veins fine or the midrib more prominent at the top, 

 mostly about 2 lines long. Spikes terminal, cvlindrical, rather dense, many- 

 flowered. Bracts leaf-life, lanceolate, ciliate, concave, as long as the flowers ; 

 bracteoles similar or more acute, almost or quite as long as the calyx. Se- 

 pals lanceolate, acute, rigid, ciliate, about 1 line long. Corolla but very little 

 longer, the lobes rather lono-er than the tube. Anthers attached under the 

 short sterde tips. Hypogvuous scales small, distinct. Ovary 2-ceUed ; style 

 ^ery short. 



W. Australia. King George's Sound or to the eastward, ^rZ^cz;^ (or rather ^^r- 



soft hairs, concave, prominently striate, 2 to 3 lines long. Spikes terminal or 

 verj' rarely in the uppermost axils, short and few-flowered. Lower or nearly 

 aU the bracts leaf-like, shortly petiolatc, lanceolate, nearly as long as the 

 flowers ; bracteoles broad, obtuse, about one-third as long as the calyx. 

 Bepals obtuse or almost acute, smooth, ciliolate, about 1 line long. Corolla- 



ube about as long as the calyx ; lobes as long as the tube. Anth 

 below the rather long sterile tips. Hypogynous disk toothed. 



Anthers attached 



„ , - ng sterile tips, ilvpogynous disk toothed Ovary 2- 



J^elled ; style exceedingly short.— %^/^^Z/« blepliaroi^hjUa, F. Muell. Tragm. 



r«]?^^-^^^''*^'*' Drummond, Uh Coll. n. 150, Wi Coll. n. SOS ; Kontolcrnp hiUs 

 P^ Kiche, Preiss, n. 378 ; Kalgau river, Oldjield; Warricup hills, Maxwell. 



A shrub, with erect, virgate, rather 



., ..„„..^ g.au.v.uo. ^..>.es linear or. narrow-lanceolate, ob- 



mse or with a short, callous point, naiTOwed at the base but scarcely petio- 

 le, erect, flat or slightly concave, the veins, especially the midnb towards 

 itie top, rather prominent, under \ in. long except when very luxuriant, the 

 "Pper ones smaller, and passing into the bracts. Spikes terromaJ, cvlm- 



37. L. tenuis, DC. Prod. vii. 744. 

 blender branches, usually glabrous. Leav 



