Ipinema.] Lxvii. EPACRiDEiB. 245 



Usually 2 to 3 lines longer than the calyx, the petal-claws sometimes slightly 

 coheriug at the throat, but usually quite free, especially when the flowering 

 18 advanced; lobes or larainpe obtuse, about 2 lines long. Anthers narrow 

 and very long, the lower end often sterile, the upper end more or less pro- 

 truding from the corolla-tube, and recurved. Hypogyuous scales narrow, 

 entire or jagged. Ovary pubescent; style and filaments usually hairy. 

 Capsule narrow. 



W. Australia. Swaa River, Dmmmond, 1st Coll, also n. 122, 2nd ColL 262; 

 tanning river, Preiss, n. 439. 



18. ARCHEEIA, Hook. f. 



torolla-tube rather broad, ventricose-cylindrical or almost canipanulate; 



johes 5, short, spreading or recurved, imbricate, but not contorted in the 



Dud. Pilaments inserted in the throat, very short ; anthers short and broad, 



attached about the middle. Hypogynous disk short, annular or cup-shaped, 



or obsolete. Ovary 5-celled, with rather numerous ovules, on placentas 



arising from near the base of the axis; style short or lojig, inserted in a 



uibiilar depression reaching nearly to the base of the ovary; stigma clavate 



or dilated, more or less distinctly 5-lobed. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent. 



— Shmhs, often of a straggling habit. Leaves flat. Flowers usually white, 



pedicellate, in short terminal "racemes, which are either leafy, each flower 



soiitarj- within a floral leaf, or leafless, the subtending bracts small and deci- 



^)iou5, the bracteoles alAvays at the base of the pedicels, and usually de- 

 ciduous, 



The genus is couiiucd to Tasmania and Xew Zealaud, the species of each country all en- 

 ^^^'c. It is united by F. Mueller with Epacris, from which it differs in habit, in the want 

 orttie persistent involucrating bracts, and in the almost basal attachment of the style. One 

 ^»es bears a remarkable general resemblauce to the South Andiue Prionotes {Allodape or 



oetanUus of Endlicher), which, however, has the hypogynous stamens and other charac- 

 p much nearer to those of Prionotes. 



l^^ers solitary within leaf-like bracts, forming at first a terminal, 

 leafy raceme, afterwards lateral. Leaves distichous, acute. 



2«Pa s obtuse. Ovary pubescent 1- ^- ^^locarpa, 



^^epalg rather acute. Ovary glabrous - - • - 2. J. hrte/ta. 



ers in a short, termiual, leadess raceme. Leaves irregularly 



crowded, obtuse ...-.,....•- r ;.. 3. ^. serpylh/oha. 



(To this group belong the two New Zealand species.) 



l.A. 



/ 



anclilets 



J^oniy hispid. Leaves nearly sessile, somewhat distichous, ovate to lauceo- 

 ^^, acute and rigidly mucronate, flat, with several nerves slightly prominent 

 2 -J^ ^PP^r surftice, minutely serrulate, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers on very 

 ^ojt pedicels in the upper axils or forming a short termiual raceme. Sepals 

 jate, obtuse, l± lilies long, striate in the centre, the margins somewhat 

 carious, and minutely ciliolate. CoroUa-tiibe ventricose, about 3 hues long, 

 PJ^traeted at the throat; lobes small. Hypogynous disk short thick, 



Itf.\ ^^^^ l^f^-^^^^te; style filiform; stigma shortly 5-lobed. Capsule 

 *^^ut 2 lines loni;. 



