leucopoijon.] LXVii. epackide^. 221 



of 2 to 3 or rarely 4 ft., bushy or with divaricate, strangling branches, gla- 

 brous or pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to cordate-ovate, tapering into a 

 pungent point, rigid, concave, finely striate, mostly about ^ in. long. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, exceedingly short, 'bearing 1, 2 or 8 flowers. Bracts few 

 and small ; bracteoles broad, obtuse, i to | line long. Sepals about 2 lines 

 long, rigid, obtuse. Corolla-tube nearly as long as the calyx; lobes about as 

 long, recurved. Anthers attached near' the top, obtuse, without sterile tips. 

 %P*^gynous scales distinct, obovate, mucronate. Ovary oblong, 3-ceIled 

 ju all the specimens examined. Pruit ovoid or oblong, hard, 3 to 4 lines 

 long.— Z. astrolomioides, P. Muell. ; Sond. in Linnsea, xxvi. 249 ; Styphelia 

 "(/«,?. Muell. Fragm. vi. 46. 



\ y^^^^l^^' Grampian mountains, Mitchell, inihelml ; Mount Abrupt, 3ry, rocky hills 

 Between Broken and Ovens rivers, Futter's Range, F. Mueller. 



S. Australia. Marble Range, Wilhehni ; Lofty Range, Torrens and Oukaparinga 

 nvers, l^ncounter Bay, F. Mueller; Kangaroo Island, E. G.Seahj, Walerhouse. 



lasmauia. Lockwoods, BUsill : St. Aruaud, !Stair (a fragment in Herb. F. Muell. 

 ^ithbroader leaves than usual). 



104. L. conostephioides, DC. Prod, vil. 753. An erect, straggling 

 snrub of about 1 ft., glabrous or tlie brandies minutely pubescent. Leaves 

 erect or spreading, lanceolate or linear-lauceolate, rigid, tapering into a pun- 

 gf^nt point, concave, finely striate, :^ to i in. long. Peduncles axillary, short, 

 iisuall^^ spreading or recurved, 1- to 3-flo\vered. Bracts miiuite; bracfeoles 

 about I as long as tlie calyx. Sepals fully \\ lines long, obtuse or shortly 

 «iucronate, dry and smooth. Corolla about 3 lines long, the lobes as long 

 ^ the tube. Anthers linear, attached about the middle, obtuse, without 

 , tips. Hypogvnous scales distinct or scarcely adhering, narrow ovate, 

 ^cumulate. Ovary striate, 2- or S-celled, usually glabrous; style long and 

 ^'^nuer, glabrous or slightly hairy.— Sond. in Pi. Preiss. i. 331 ; Z. rujidas, 

 vi" U^'' ^^' ■^'*^'^' ^^' ^'^53 ; Stijphelia conostejihioides, F. Muell. Pragin. 



to?' ^^st^alia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Baxter, Maxwell, thence 

 river n//i'^ ^^^'"^^' Brummond, \st ColL n. 16, 479, Preiss, n. 405, aud Murcliison 



betw.. nT'f"^* ^^^ ^eai-Iy ailied to Z. rufus and to Z. deformis, aud almost intermediate 

 "^i-weeu the t\yo, -^ j ^ 



IrlTv h\ 'leformis, R Br. Prod. 546. A straggling slmiL, with wiry 



^ranches like those of L. vlrgatus, and similar foliage, but the inflorescence of 



• '""/««. Leaves erect or spreading, linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering nito 



Short poiut, rigid, concave, finely veined, 2 to 3 lines long. Peduncles 

 mFnr\^^''^^'^"^Slv short, bearing usually a single flower besides the rudi- 

 as ,u , ^^^^ ^eiy small ; bracteoles broad, acute, ciliolate, not half so long 

 short? '^ ^''- ^^P^'^ H lines long, dry, acute, minutely ciliolate. Corolla 

 aljo,7 .f'^'^eding the calyx, the lobes as'long as the tube. Anthers attached 

 itml + '^''^^^^' ol^t^se. without sterile tips. Hypogvnous disk readily 

 anH I r "'^'^ obtuse scales. OvaiT densely villous, 3-celled ; style long 



a s!ender.-DC. Prod. vii. 754 ; Slyphelia'deformis, Spreng. Syst. i. 658. 



which ?■, "*^*leS' Moist heaths, Syducv and Botaay Bay, R. Broum. This species, 

 Pleader ^11^ ^'^'^" *" ^'^ other collectiou,'is allied to the two preceding ones, but more 

 ' "^ smaller tiuwers, and a very villous ovary. 



