202 Lxvii. EFACRiDEiE. [LeucopgoH, 



N. S. "Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R, Brown, Sieher, n, 107, and 



others. 



Victoria. Common in heathy ground and sterile regions, ascending into the niountaiaa 

 to an elevation of 4000 ft., F. Mueller and others. 



Tasmania. Port Dalryuiple and Derwent river, E. Brown ; abundant in dry, gravelly 

 or sandy places throughout the island, /. B. Hooker, 



S. Australia. Murray Desert, Onkaparinga and Torrens rivers, Lofty Range, F. 

 Mueller, 



Var. brevifolius. Leaves from ovate to lanceolate, mostly under ? in. long, passing some- 

 times into the common form on the longer branches, — Mount "William in the Grampians, 

 F. Mueller ; Wimmeraj Ballacky, 



50. L. pulchellus. Sand, in PL Prem. i. 310. An erect rather slender 

 sIu'Lib, attaining 3 or 4 ft., the branches glabrons or pubescent. Leaves 

 erect, linear, obtuse, rather thick, and slightly concave, obscurely ribbed un- 

 derneath, glabrous or sliglitly hairy, mostly 2 to 3 lines long. Spikes short 

 and dense, terminal or in the uppermost axils. Bracts leaf-like but small; 

 bracteoles very obtuse, not half so long as the calyx. Sepals about 1:^ lines 

 long, obtuse, rather thin, ciliate and often pubescent. Corolla 2 lines long 

 or rather more, tlie tube very short, the lobes much longer. Anthers at- 

 tached below the prominent sterile tips. Hypogynous disk short. Ovaiy 

 short and broad, 5-cclled; style very short. 'Fruit small, truncate. — l. tri- 

 qneler, Stsehegl. in Bull. Mosc. 1859, i. 15 ; Styphelia pulchtlla, F. Mucll. 

 Fragm. vi. 34. 



'W, Australia. Swan Kivcr and adjoining districts, I)rummo7id, 1st Coll. n. 29 aud 

 460, Prm^, n. 396 and 401 ; Toodjay, Glll/erl, 7i. 15 ; Tone river, Oldfield; DlUoa l^fj. 

 Phillips Haugcs, Maxwell; also a glabrons form, with the sepals scarcely ciliate, Stirling 

 Kanges, Maxwell, 



51. I., p olymorphus, Sond. hi Fl. Preiss. i. 309. An erect but often 

 weak shrub of 1 to 3 ft., glabrous or more frequently the foliage as well as 

 the brandies pubescent or hahy. Leaves erect, from ovate-lanceolate and 

 scarcely 3 lines long to uarrovv-lanccolate or almost linear and 2 to 4 Hues 

 long, obtuse, rigid, concave, prominently ribbed underneath. Spikes short, 

 dense, terminal or in the uppermost axils. Bracts and bracteoles obtusely 

 acuminate and usually pubescent, not half so long as the calyx. Sepals 

 about li lines long, obtuse, ciliate, usually pubescent. Corolla 3 to 3^ hnes 

 long, tbp lobes longer than the tube. Anthers attached below the prominent 

 sterde tips. Hypogynous disk obtusely lobed. Ovary 5-celled ; style very 



&liovL—Sf?/pMia j}oli/morp7ia, P. Muell. Fragra. vi. 31. 



Ba 





W. Australia. Swan River. Preiss, n. 392, 402; near Hampaen, OUfieU ; Stirlin 

 """ i'^-"- Sender refers here Huegel's specimens from King George's Souud, 



■examiuation annear to me. tn hp tliP trup T. nisimUis. and, oa tiie 



omer nana, ireiss s specimens, n. 383 and 384, from Swan River, referred by Sender w 

 L brachycejihalui {L. mcuUatas, var.), appear to me to be a rather broader-leaved form ot 

 L. pofffmorphus. 



52. I,, assimilis, U. Br. Prod. 545. An erect rigid shrub of 3 to 4 ft., 

 glabrous or the branches minutely pubescent. Leaves erect and often imbri- 

 cate, in the typical form linear or lanceolate, obtuse, ri'>id flat or concave, 

 often prominently ribbed, i to i in. long. Spikes shorthand dense, tenmua! 

 or lu tlie uppermost axils. Bracts and bracteoles obtuse, striate, about bait 



