Bracts 

 the sepals 



%"•'«•] Lxvii. epacridej:. 237 



ing sometimes 8 to 10 ft. Leayes petiolate, oLovate, broadly ovate or almost 

 orbicular, obtuse or with an obscure callous point, thick, concave, smooth, in 

 some specimens scarcely 2 lines, in others 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers axil- 

 lary along the branches, the peduncles sometimes all under 1 line, sometimes 

 2 to 3 lines long;. Bracts and sepals rigid, obtuse, concave, ciliolate, tlie se- 

 pals scarcely above 1 line long. Corolla-tube campanidate, about as long as 

 the calyx, and the lobes as long as the tube. Hypogynous scales short and 

 broad. Style very short. 



„ Y' ^- W'ales. Blae Mountaias and mountain belt near Illawarra, A. CunningJiam ; 



h^dney Woods, Paris Exhibition, 1855, n. 184, M'Adhtir; also in LeichhardCs collcc- 

 tiou. 



■8. E. crassifolia, R. Br. Prod. 551. Stems procumbent or trailing, 

 sliort and slender in elevated situations, rather stouter and extending to above 

 a toot near the sea, the branches glabrous or pubescent. Leaves obovate, 

 ^ery obtuse, narrowed into a petiole) the margins usually thickened and some- 

 times ciliate,_ the veins few and often obsciu-e, i to ^ in. long. Flowery very 

 variable in size, axillary along the branches, the peduncles very short. 



«iid sepals obtuse or rarely almost acute, ciliate, usually decussate, f. ^-— 



-« to nearly 3 lines long. Corolla-tube shortly exceeding the calyx ; lobes 

 Short and broad. Ilvpogynous scales short and broad. Stigma rather broad. 

 — i^C. Prod. vii. 764. 



fTn //^" ^^^*®- ^ort Jackson, near the sea (with large leaves and flowers), H. Broisn, 

 ooils, and others ; summits of the Blue Mountains (with small leaves and flowers), A. 

 ^^'muffham, Fraser, and others. 



9- E. robusta, Benth. An erect, stont, branching shrub of 3 to 4 ft., 

 le branchlets scarcely pubescent. Leaves shortly petiolate, very spreading, 

 J ^^^*^/^r almost orbicular, very obtuse, thick, few-nerved, mostly about i in. 

 ng. 1* lowers in the upper axils,rather large, white with a slight yellowish tinge, 

 'acts and sepals obtuse, scarcely decussate, the sepals fully 3 lines long, 

 oroua-tube not exceeding the calyx ; lobes obtuse, about as long as the tube. 



tain smV^*^^^ °^ Victoria. Granite rocks at the summit of the White Peak raonn- 

 diffe'ri, f "^ ^''""'^ "^'^'■' ^- Mueller. Allied to E. oUusifolia and E. crassifolia, 



nng from the former ia foliage, and from the latter ia habit. 



10. E. obtusifolia, Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 77. t. 40. An erect shrub, with 



"o^te, usually pubesceut branches, from under 1 ft. to about 3 ft. high, 

 intn''^ [I'^^^'^g-elliptical, obtuse, thick, few-nerved, slightly concave, narrowed 

 ^^0 a short petiole, from under i in. long when broad to nearly \ m. when 

 cem^^^" . ^^o^^ers white, axillary, usually forming long one-sided leafy ra- 

 and ^^ '^^™°*^ sessile or on peduncles of above 1 line. Bracts 

 Corolf^ obtuse, ciliate, usually decussate, the sepals about 3 hnes long, 

 tlie 11 ^*^™^*"^e3 almost campanulate, the tube shortly exceeding the calyx, 

 ,,,u T . '■°^^- Anthers not protruding from the tube. Hypogynous 

 p, 1 distmct, obtuse.— E. Br. Prod. 551; DC. Prod. vii. 763; Hook. f. 



^J^asm. 1. 260 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 292. 



W ^s'li^ **• ^larshes, Moreton Island, F. Mueller. , , 



I. b'Z 7f^^^- ^"""t Jackson to the Blue Mountains, chiefly in marsliy gronnd, 

 HaHin?, '• ^*f ' «• 84, Fl. Mixl. n. 487, and many others ; New England, C. Stuart ; 

 ° "^er. Heckler ; Clarence river, iJ/%. 



