Jcrotriclie,] ixvii. epacride.^:. 229 



S, Australia. Kanpjaroo Island; R Brown^ F. Mueller; MuiTaj river aud near Ta- 



munda, F. Mueller. 



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W. Australia. Sand ridges. Bald Head, Baxter. 



8. A. fascicTiliflora, Benth. A rigid shrub of 1 to 2 ft., with stout 

 ascending stems, the branches and foliage usually hirsute. Leaves lanceolate 

 or nnear-lanceolate, tapering into a fine point, convex or with recurved mar- 

 gins, pale uuderneath, rarely exceeding ^ in. Spikes very densely crowtled 

 at the base of the stem or sometimes also at the base of the primary branches, 

 lonning in some specimens a mass of 3 to 3 in. diameter, the small bracts 

 and bvacteoles and veiy conspicuous calyces of a reddish colour. Sepals 2|- 

 to nearly 3 lines long, thin, and rather narrow. Corolla-tube scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx or half as long again when the sepals are short ; lobos 

 anout 1 line long, the throat clothed with shortly hairy scales instead of 

 tutts of hairs. Ovary with 3, 4 (or 5 ?) angles and as many cells ; style as 

 long as the corolla-tube. Fruit not &een.—Frcebelia fascicuUfom, Regel, 

 ™"teiifl. i. 164,, t 18 . Jcrotriche ramiflora, Sond. in Linnaja, xxvi. 251, 

 not of li. Br. ; StypJieUa ramijlora, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 44. 



nf fh' ''^.^f*^*^»a- Forest gullies, Lofty Range, F. Mueller, who informs us that the tube 

 me pink corollas is half-full of a clear, sweet-scented honey. 



14. MONOTOCA, E. Br. 



, J"°l'^-t«be small, campanulate or scarcely cylindrical ; lobes 5 or rarely 4, 

 tub v ^ ^^e bud, spreading, glabrous. Filam'ents inserted at the top of the 

 ^ oe, short, filiform ; anthers wholly or partially enclosed in the corolla-tube 

 int^^T^-'"^ with the lobes. Hypogvnous disk truncate, lobed or separating 

 cell* /^^* ^'^^^es- Ovary 1-celled' or rarely 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each 

 puln ^'^°^"*' ^'^Sraa small. Fruit a small drupe, with a somewhat 



8hri h '^'^^"^^^'P' ^^^ ^ '^''^'■'^ °^ crustaceous endocarp, with a single seed.— 

 small ? ^"^^^ ^^^^^- L^'^^^s "'if^'i recurved margins or nearly flat. Flowers 

 or so -^ ™°''^ °^' ^^^^ unisexual, in axillary or terminal spikes or racemes, 

 teudi'^^\™^^ quite solitary, each flower sessile or pedicellate within the sub- 

 ng bract, with 2 bracteoles close under the calyx. . 



small^P""' '' ^"''^'^'^ to Australia. It is closely allied to leucopogon, differing in the 

 ovarv T ^^"Pannlate corolla with glabrous lobes, and in most cases also by the 1-celled 

 2celi;] u.r^^"<^e t^e "^"'e is derived ; but in cue species, M. tamariscim, the ovary is 

 Thefirslf ''*> ^ «'"gle species oi Leucopoyon, L pleura>idroides,\i is 1-celled only, 

 ■nake t i^"" f '^*^ following species sometimes run so closely one mto the other as to 

 Jv / "^' *° ^'^*'"S"J^1' them. 



8olita ^ p '^te, in terminal or also axillary racemes, or rarely 



np,i; T' t^'"^'^ts deciduous or none ; bracteoles at the top of the 



peaicel . . . I. ^. elUphca. 



Flow/ ■^^"''■^'■y- Bracts small, persistent. 



Hon '" *'"'''" pedunculate spikes. Leaves mucronate ... 2. M. lineala. 

 vT\\^ ^"lost sessile clusters of 2 to 4. Leaves mucronate. 



Flo„ ™^ not very spreading 3. Jf- scopana. 



jersroostlysolitary, almost sessile. Leaves obtuse or with a 



Ovary J^'°;'f' '^^W point ^. M. lechfoha. 



Wp,"! I^owers 4-merous, in small pedunculate spikes. 



'' ^ery spreading or reflexed . . . 5. K empelr^foha. 



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