246 Lxvil. EPACRiDE.^. [Jrckria. 



Tasmania. Dcuse forests, S.W. of Lake St. Clair and Jlacquarrie Harbour, Gunn, 

 laiiUigan, 



A. hirtella. Hook, f 



A larire slirub or 



small tree of 10 to 13 ft., witli stout sterns and rather spreading branches, 

 hirsute with short spreading hairs. Leaves more or less distichous, ovate, 

 acute, with short pungent points, miniitely serrate-ciliate, thick, smootli and 

 shining, obscurely 1-nerved, mostly 3 to 4 lines long. Pedicels in the upper 

 axils, 1 to 2 lines long, forming a short, terminal, leafy raceme. Bracts 

 several, the lower ones small and persistent, the upper ones larger, but very 

 deciduous. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, nearly 2 lines long.^ Corolla- 

 tube ovate- cylindrical, slightly contracted at the throat, fully 3 lines long; 

 lobes short, recurved. Hypogynous disk shortly lobed. Style as long as 

 the corolla. — Mpacrls hirtella^ Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 271; 

 P. Muell. Fragm. ri. 71. 



Tasmania. Dense forests near Jlacquarrie TTarbour aud Acheron Valley, S.W, of Lake 

 St. Clair, Gunn ; foot of Mount Lapcyrouse, Oldjield, 



A. serpyllifolia. Hook. / 



A stout, 



rigid, prostrate or bushy shrub of 6 in. to 1 ft., often clinging closely to the 

 face of the rocks, usually quite glabrous. Leaves crowded, not distichous, 

 ovate-elliptical and obtuse or rather narrower and less obtuse, thick, slightly 

 concave, obscurely 1- or 3-nerved, 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Flowers la 

 short, terminal, dense, sessile racemes, the lower empty bracts small ami 

 persistent, the upper subtending ones larger and very deciduous. Sepals l? 

 to nearly 2 lines long, narrow-oblong, rather obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube 

 broad, almost campanulate, about 2 lines long, hairy inside above m 

 middle; lobes short, somewhat spreading, but not recurved, bearded inside 

 below the middle. Hypogynous disk none in the flowers examined. Ovary 

 glabrous; style very shorL—Upacns ^mcrayithera, F. Mucll. Fragm. vi. 72. 



Tasmania. Rocks on the summit of Mount Olympus, Gunn. 



y^. minor. Flowers smaller, on shorter pedicels (always?), without hracteoles.- ■ 



nor. Hook. f. FL Taam. i. 264. Summit of Mouut SorreU, MilHjan, and of Mouuv 



minor. Hook. f. Fl 

 Lapeyrouse, Oldjield. 



19. PIlIOii"OTES, R. Br. 



Corolla-tube cylindrical or ventricose; lobes 5, imbricate, not contorted i 

 the bud, spreading, glabrous. Stamens hypogynous, free from the corona, 

 anthers included in the corolla-tube, adnate except at the base, with a pro- 

 minent dissepiment, though opening in a single slit, Hypogynous disli o 

 minute scales. Ovary 5-celled, with several ovules in each cell, on a sma 

 placenta tiearly sessile on the axis ; style inserted in a tubular depression 

 the ovary. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent.— Shrubs. Leaves flat, obtu^eij 

 toothed. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, with several small bracts o 

 the peduncle. 



Besides the Australian species, ^klcli is endemic, another has heen puhlished from e^tw- 

 tropical South America, which, however, is considered by some hotanists as forming 

 tinct genus, AUodajpe or Lehetanthus of Endlicher. 



1. P. ceriathoides, R. Br, Prod. 553. , A tall shrub, its slender 



