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Lxvii. EPACRiDEiE. [Acrotrkh. 



oyalifolia, 72, Br. Frod 548. An erect and bushy or diffuse 

 slirub, of 6- in. to 1 ft., glabrous or the branches very minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves pctiolate, from broadly ovate to oval-oblong, obtuse or with auobicure 

 Gallons point, thick, flat or nearly so, the veius not prominent, 3 to 4 lines 

 long, riowers in very shortly pedicellate axillary clusters, on the previous 

 year's wood. Bracteoles about half as long as the calyx. Sepals broad, 

 very obtuse, about f line long. Corolla-tube not twice as long as the calyx, 

 the lobes short, the throat closed with tufts of hairs. Ovary, in all the 

 floAvers examined, 4-celled. Fruit small, globular or slightly depressed.— 

 Bot. Mag.t. 3171 ; Slyphelia ovalifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 656 ; Ambcordata, 

 DC. Prod. vii. 757 ; Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 325. 



■ Victoria. Portland Bay and Cape Nelson, Alfitt, 



S.Australia. Memory Cove, R. Brown ^ Port Lincoln and :MarLIe Ranges, Wih 

 hehyn ; Lake Alexandrina, i^. Mueller. 

 , "^^^ Australia. King George's Sound and adjoinin'r districts, R. Brown, A. Cunning- 



i^^^i ^Z''' f; ^^^' ^"^ ^^^^^s ' Swan River, Brimmond, \st Coll. and «. 31, Oldfidd; 

 Bank Cliffs, Maxwell i Stirling Range, F. Mueller, 



^^nMla cordaia, LabiU. PI. Xov. Holl. i. 46. t. 63 [Acrotriclie cordata, R. Br. Proi 

 54bj, has been ascertained by De Caudolle aud bv Sonder to be tbe same plant; but the specific 

 name, though older, has been rejected as manifestly inapplicable, except to some apparently 

 very exceptional state. In the very numerous specimens we bave from various localities it 

 IS only very rarely that a few leaves show a slightly cordate base. Even the name suhcot' 

 £/«/«, which De CandoIIe substituted, is but rarely applicable, besides that it is more recent 

 than Brown s name ovalifolia. 



A /Tff' \ef ^^^^^^^^'^- I^eaves elliptical -oblong, 4 to 6 lines long.-Mouth of the Gleaelg. 

 AlhU s king George's Sound, Baxler. 



ramiflora, K Br. Prod. 547. A stout shrub, with divaricate 

 branches glabrous or slightly pul^escent. Leaves very spreading, oblong- 

 imear, abniptly contracted into a short, rigid point with revobite margins, 

 obscurely veined underneath or the midrib only prominent. Plowers not 



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en. jHi-uiting spikes scattered along tlie old wood below the leaves, \ to , 

 -. long, bepals short and broad as in the preceding species. Fruit dc 

 pressed-globular or shortly pear-shaped, not ribbed, above 2 lines diameter. 

 — JJL. I'rod. vii. 757: J. Mn»^7^o,\- «^„.i ;., t>\ T).-„;e= ,• «9fi • StuvMui 



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'flora, Sprensr. Svst. i. fin 9 



R.T' ''b"^*^'^^'^; Lncky Bay, R. Brown, and probably in the same neighbourhood. 

 Baxter, Drummond, n 107. In foliage and calyx this is very near A. serrulaia, but the 

 umorescence is more like that of A. depressa, except that the spikes are not so crowded. 



, 7. A. depressa, R. Br. Prod. 548. A very divaricately branclied. 

 rigid shrub ot 1 to 2 ft. Leaves very spreading or reflexed, from ovate and 

 1 Une long to lanceolate and 2 lines, sometimes cordate, miicronate-acute, 

 n, nn,.„.^ sp ],pg many-flowered, sessile or nearly so, and crowded on 



rards the hn<5P nf fl,^ ^...•„„- .,i i i.„. „„„t, ^nA i to #• in- 



flat or convex. 



he old wood towards the base of the principal branches, each one i to J i 

 long. Bracteoles about i line long, and bJacts still smaller. Sepals rath 

 narrow, reddish, 1 to 1} line long. Corolla-tube very little longer than the 

 calyx ; lobes short._ the throat closed with tufts of hairs. Ovary 2- or rarely 

 S-celled, tapermg into the short style.-DC. Prod. vii. 757, and PL K^^J- 

 Jard. Gen. 8 Isot. t. 1; Stjjphdia deju-essa, Spreng. Syst. i. 655; F. MuelL 

 Praa-m. vi. 44. ^ > t- o j 



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