208 LXVii. EPACiUDE^E. [Leucopogon, 



convcXj witli the margins and midrib thickened so as to be 2-furrowcd 

 untlerneathj mostly about \ in. long. Flowers apparently red, erect, in very 

 short, terminal spikes or racemes, on pedicels of abont \ line, the bracts and 

 bracteoles at the base of the pedicels not above half so long. Sepals broadly 

 ovate, very obtuse, coloured, about \ line long. Corolla-tube cyliudrical, 

 about 2 lines long, hairy inside about the middle, glabrous at the base and in 

 the throat, the lobes bearded above the middle, more than 1 line long. Anthers 

 attached above the middle, oblong, obtuse, without sterile tips. Hypogynous 

 disk sinuate or obtusely lobed. Ovary slightly hairy, 3-celled (or 4-celled?); 

 style slender, hairy. — CyatJiodes ruhicunda^Y. Muell. Fragm. iv. 99; %- 

 jiltelia rubicumla^ F. Muell. Fragm. vi, 31. 



'^^;y. Australia- Sandy plains between Point Malcolm and Point Culver, Mancell. 

 This and the preceding two species, ^Yith their pedicellate flowers, come very near to the 

 first two species of Lissanthey but with bearded corolla-lobes and drier fruits. lu transfCT- 

 ring this species from Cyathodes to Leucopogon I have been able to retain F. Mueller's 

 specific name, as the otber species of Leucopoyon to which he had given it proves to be 

 Sender's L. oxycedrus* 



Sect. III. PLErnANTHUS. — Spikes all axillary, few-flowered or reduced to 

 a single flower besides the rudimentary one, the common peduncle very short 

 or rarely as long as the leaves. Anthers obtuse or emarginate, without 

 sterile tips. Style usually slender and elongated, rarely very short, 



Sekies 1. CoNFEUTiE. — Lcaves small (1 to 2 lines long), with recurved 

 margins. Flowers mostly solitary besides the rudiment, and nearly sessile, 

 but often forming dense, leafy spikes along the branchlcts. Ovary S-celled. 



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G8, L. attenuatus, A. Cunn. in Field, N. 8, TFales, 341. A shrub, 



Avith long, spreading branches and numerous short branchlets, usually mi; 

 nutely pubescent as well as the foliage or sometimes hoary -villous. Leaves 

 from ovate to oblong or lanceolate, mucronate, flat or with recurved margins, 

 mostly about 1 line, or more rarely 2 lines long. Flowers solitary in each 

 axil, with the rudiment of a second, or rarely 2, and often so crowded along 

 the branchlets as to form leafy spikes. Peduncles exceedingly short. Bracts 

 minute; bracteoles not half' so long as the calyx. Sepals obtuse, 1 toh 

 line long, obtuse. Corolla 1^ to 2 lines, the lobes as long as the tube, 

 llypogynons disk small, lobed. Anthers attached near the top, obtuse, witn- 

 out sterile tips. Ovary 5- or rarely 4-celled, striate ; style short. Ir^ 

 striate, scarcely exceeding the calyx, often ripening only a single seed. 

 DC. Prod. vii. 752; i. recUnatus, A. Cunn. ; DC, I.e.; L. recurvatns^^^ 

 Cunn.; DC. I.e. 751: and (the more villous specimens) Z. mucronatus,^^' 

 1. c. 751, and Z. ramnlosus, A. Cunn. ; DC. L c. 753. 



N. S. "Wales. Barren hills in the interior, near Cox's River, Daly's Plains, belwe^ 

 the Laclilan aud Macquarrie rivers, A. Cunningham, The dense white beards of the corou^ 

 and crowded flowers give this plant often the aspect of the section Ferojoa, but the m^^ 

 are really all axillary, not in terminal spikes, and the anthers without sterile tips. 



69. L. confertus^ BentL A shrub, with the habit, folinge, ^^J^^/^J^J 

 rescence of Z. attemiatus, and softly pubescent as in some varieties of tn^^^ 

 species, Leaves oblong or oblong-linear, with a very fine, rigid point '''' 



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