200 Lxvir. EPACRIDE.E. [Lcucopogon. 



spikes. Bracts, at least the lower oneSj like the stem leaves, hut smaller; 

 bractcoles very obtuse, not half so long as the calyx. Sepals about f line 

 long, obtuse. Corolla 1^ to nearly 2 lines long, the lobes longer than tlie 

 tube. Anthers inserted below the prominent sterile tips. Hypogynous Jist 

 sinuate-toothed. Ovary 2-celled (or sometimes 3-celled?); style very short. 

 Sond. in PI. Prciss. i. 312; Styphelia graclllima^ F. Muell. Pragm. vi. 



"W. Australia. Swan River, Brummond, \st ColL n, 23 ; Mount Bakcwell, Preks, 

 n. 395. DrutnmoTid's specimens, n. 75, are referred here by F, Mueller, hut they have no 

 flowers, and must tliei-eforc be doubtrd. 



45. L. \^%\o^h.ylhxs^- Stschegl in Bull Mosc, 1859. i. 16. An erect 

 shrub with virgate branches, our specimens under 1 ft. high, the branches 

 aud foliage pubescent, with short, rigid hairs. Leaves erect, sessile, Hnearor 

 linenr-lanccolate, rather obtuse, concave, prominently ribbed, 2 to 4 lines 

 long, occasionally opposite. Flowers few, in short, dense spikes, terminal or 

 m the uppermost axils. Bracts, at least the lower ones, like the leaves, but 

 smaller ; bracteoles acuminate, at least half as long as the calyx, aud some- 

 times almost passing into the sepals. Sepals 1^ to 1| lines' long, narrow, 

 coloured, ciliate, and pnbescent, with convolute, rather obtuse tips. Corolla 

 about 2 lines long, the lobes as long as the tube. Anthers attached below 

 the prominent sterile tips. Hypogynous disk obtusely lobed. Ovary gla- 

 brous, 2-celled, Style very short. ^ 



Mr. Australia- Brummond. 



This 



plant is referred by F, Mueller, Fragm. vi. 32, to L.^ppositifolius, from which it onlyM^ 

 peara to differ m the rather longer, more pubesceut leaves, mostly alternate. 



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46. t. cymbiformis, J. Cnnn.; DC. Frod. vii. 750. A lusly or 

 wiry shrub of 1 to l^ ft., glabrous or the branches scarcely pubescent. 

 Leaves erect, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, tapering into a short, rigid 

 point, coQcave, and usually keeled, 1 to 2' or rarely 3 lines long. Spfes 

 very short, dense, and often only S'^ or 3-flowered, terminal or in the upper- 

 most axils, but sometimes becoming lateral by the eton^-ation of a branch 

 from one of the uppermost axils. Bracts lanceolate, acute, leaf-like; brac- 

 teoles verj' acute, half as long as the sepals. Sepals \\ to \\ Hues long. 

 very acute, and sometimes greenish below the points. CoroIIa-tube skortly 

 exceeding the calyx ; lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers attached imme- 

 diately under the exceedingly short, recurved, sterile tips. Hypog.viwiJ^ 

 scales ovate, obtuse, usually distinct, T\-ith a dense ring of almost chafty 

 hairs or bristles within them round the ovary. Ovary elongated, tapering 

 into the scarcely distinct style, angular, 2-celled.-Sond. in PL Prciss. i. 3lS; 

 StypUlia cymbiformis, P. Muell. Fragm. vi. 34. 



W. A^ostralia Brummond, 3rd Coll. ». 182, 18S, m Coll. n. 323 ; King George's 

 SouuJ y. ^"^f;"^/^""^; Cape Rkhe, Harvey; Gordon river, Preiss, n. 385; Kalgan ff 

 Tone rivers, Oldfield I have had the greatest difficulty in ascertaining the structure of 

 ovary. From more than a dozen different specimens I always found it diseased and Hf 

 inside In one specimen, however, it was distinctly 2-celled, but the ovules were stiU i^ 

 perfect ; and were it not for the great uniformity in specimens gathered by diiferent collector 

 iri different localities, I should have suspected that the frequently abnormal inflorescen^ 

 the pe,:uhar Imirs round the ovary,_aud the unusual form of the latter organ, had been aUke 





the elFccts of disease. 



