244 



even 



Lxvii. EPACKIDE.E. [L^jsinma, 



4 ft., with long and virgate or short rigid and crowded branches, ghi- 



brous or hoary-puhesceiit. Leaves from ovate croT^-ded spreading decussate 

 and not 2 lines long, to lanceolate erect appressed and above 3 lines long, all 

 obtuse, rather thick and more or less concave. Flowers usually in short 

 dense terminal spikes, rarely more scattered in the upper axds, and very 

 variable in size. Bracts and sepals forming an involucre cylindrical or 

 slightlv conical from scarcely 4 to above 6 lines long, all acute or almost ob- 

 tuse, the margins always fringed with short woolly hairs. Corolla-tuJe 

 sometimes not longer than the calyx, sometimes exceeding it by 1 or even ^ 

 lines, glabrous or pubescent outside, separating into petal-claws either entirely 

 free or more frequently cohering towards the throat ; lobes or petal-laminffi 

 obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long. Stamens entirely free ; anthers linear, entirely ni- 

 cluded in the corolla-tube. Ilvpogynous scales broadly oblong.— DC. 1 rod. 

 vii. 765 ; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 328 ; P. Muell Fragm. vi. 70 ; L. penlape^ 

 talmn, Br. Prod. 552 ; DC. Prod. vii. 764 ; Sond. in Pi. Preiss. i, 327; r. 

 Muell. Fragm. vi. 69 ; Epacns ciliata and E, pentapetala, Poir. Diet, buppl. 

 ii. 555; Lysinem.a virgatim, DC. Prod. vii. 765; L. curvatim,Um-^^' 

 Eiv. App. 25; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 328; L. spicatian, LmdL Lc; h> 

 ovatnm, Sond. 1. c. 339. 



"W. Australia. King George's Sound and Lucky Bay, It. Brown ; apparently very 

 abundant from the south roast to Swan River and Murchisou river, OldfieJd, as it app 

 in almost all collections, Bnmmond, Ist ColL n. 78 ; Preiss, n, 441, 442, 443, and mau) 

 others. , 



The short crowded ovate leaves and long distant narrow ones, rounded or ^^^*^**^^!^^.|j-^.|j 

 base, occur on different branches of the same shrub ; the length of the ^P^ , ,^'^ pars 

 chiefly distinguished the two supposed species, is exceedingly variable, it ahsa};^ PI 

 longer wheu the flowering is advanced ; the occasionally curved calyx of L. curva ui 

 pears to be accidental. 



5. I-. fimbriatum, R Muell. Fragm. iv. 125. vi. 70. An erect shnib 

 of 1 to 2 ft., with long and rather slender virgate branches. Leaves ere ^ 

 and closely appressed, lanceolate or linear, obtuse, keeled, 1 to 2 or r^^r^ . 

 lines long. Flowers few, large, in terminal heads. Bracts and ^^Pf*'^, L^ 

 ing a cylindrical involncre of 6 to 8 lines, the sepals and especially the bin 

 obtuse, with their margins split into scarions, crisped teeth, g^^'^^^5 ,. ^"Vj^g 

 elegant fringed aspect. Corolla-tube exceeding the calyx by 1 to 2 '^^^*^^'i ^ 

 petal-claws cohering at the throat, but usually separating lower down ; ^^ 

 or laminae 3 to 4 lines long, oblong, obtuse. Filaments free; an 

 wholly included in the corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales naiTOW. 



"W. Anstralia. King George's Sound or to the eastward, ^^^^^^'.^^^fi^^i, 

 places, Williams and Tone rivers, Oldfield ; Upper Kalgaa river, base of Stuliug 

 F. Mueller. 



6. L. elegans, Sond, in PI. Preiss, i. 327. A shrub of 1 to 2 ^''^^^^^ 

 erect, rather slender, usually pubescent branches. Leaves erect, ^PP^^l^^jil 

 oblong-lanceolate or linear, obtuse, keeled, 1 to 2 lines long on tbe _^^^ 

 branches, often all under 1 line on the side ones, and occasionally ^W^^j,^^ 

 Flowers in compact terminal heads, rarely lengthening into cyli^^^'^'^^^'^.^f'^^j^ 5 

 of 2 in. Bracts and sepals forming a narrow, cylindrical involucre ot 

 lines, fill very narrow, rather obtuse, minutely ciliate or entire. Corolla- 



