232 



Lxvii. EPACRiDE.i:. [Monoloca. 



corolla-lobes, with short, broad anthers, in other flowers short, with semi- 

 abortive anthers, Hypogyuous scales small, linear, slightly cohering at the 

 base. Ovary 2-cellecl ; style exceedingly short ; stigma minutely 2-lohe(l 



P y^' Australia, Brummond, n. 86 ; rocks on the summits of the Stirling Ean^e, 



I'. MiieUer. Very different from the other species ia foliage and in the 2-celled ovary, as 



well as m geographical station, but appears to be better placed iu Mo^ioioca than in any 

 other genus, ^ 



15. OLIGARIIHEN-A, E. Br. 



Corolla-tube campanulate ; lobes 4, valvate ia the bud, not bearded, 

 btameus 2, inserted near the top of the corolla-tube, the 2 alternate deficient 

 ones sometiuics replaced by minute staininodia; filaments very short, fili- 

 lorm ; anthers mcluded in the tube. Hypogynous disk of 4 distinct scales. 

 Uvary 2-celled ; style short. Fruit (according to Sonder) a small, 1-seeded 

 rrpP^-~-'^ heathlike shrub, with minute leaves. Flowers minute, in small 

 hlitorm, axillary spikes, forming a leafy, compound raceme. 



The single species is limited to West Australia. It is near to some of the very sleuder 

 n^T^/r^^'T' '"1* yi'^ beardless corollas, the flowers 4-merous as in Acrotriche empetrifolia, 

 and difFcrs from all m the deScieucj or abortion of two of the stamens. 



r 



i \ f?' "^^5=^^^*^a, R. Br. Trod. 549. An erect, heath-hke shrub of 1 

 10 -i It., with numerous very slender, almost fihform branches, glabrous or 

 puDescent. Leaves erect, closely appressed, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 snortly acuminate or obtuse, concave and embracing the stems, \ to 1 line 

 long, bpikes axillary, filiform, inteiTupted, 2 to ^3 lines long, solitary ia 

 eac 1 axil, but verj- numerous, forming a terminal, compound raceme, crowded 

 with minute white or pale yellow flowers. Bracts and bracteoles about half 

 a. ong as the calyx. _ Sepals very thin, ciliate, about \ line long. Corolla 

 Jt.nT ^°"-Sl'''^;-oiis Inside and out, the lobes as long as the tube. Anthers 

 ceed n 'iv iT •.i^^P"?^'"^^' ^"""^^^ ^^'-^te. Ovmy glabrous; style ^^■ 

 W %^ J ^ ' Tin T,"^V^"*^ ^^^S"'-"- ^'^"Pe ovate, striate, scarcely \ line 

 lo.^(^.;^«^.;-).-DC. Prod. vii. 760 ; Sond. in PI. Prdss. i. 326. 



Cane R^ir^^*^"*' ^"'^^ ^^^' ^- ^''°''''' ^^'ter ; between King George's Sound and 



fiTd- St riinf Z""'^' ?r ^^,^■ ^^^ ^'^^- «• 195 ; >^-^'^^. n. 2099 ; Kalian river, Old- 

 petd, bfrling Range, F. Mueller; ranging along the coast to Cape le Grand, Maxwell. 



in J^pfl^'r "■ ^f c,^Ej:.-OvuIes several in each cell of the ovary. Style 

 snppf tn ' '' f" *".^^" depression, so as to be lateral or basal uith re- 

 spect to the carpels. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent. 



16. EPACRIS, Cav. 



tortedfn'thS ?'^^"^^^'^'=''^^ °^ campanulate ; lobes 5, imbricate but not eon- 

 to the corolln tnh r°'' T '•' ^P'-^^ding, glabrous. Filaments short, adnate 

 to he base Ittf ^'"?/*','^ f "^^ throat): but often readily detached almost 

 n tt corJlla tub? h"^''^ '^'^^ *^^ "^^^^^«' ^^'^^ or partially included 

 •arelv rnW.1 " Hypogynous disk consisting of distinct scales, very 



iarel> coheiing m a nng or cup. Qvary 5-celled with several, usually 



"rdT; tlbT "l P'"^'"^" ^"^^^^^^ '-^^^ axl %Xlong or short, in- 

 serted in a tubular depression, rarely reaching below the middle of the ovarj^ ; 



