Sj^rengeVm!] Lxvii. epacride^. 249 



or procumbent slirub, with numerous slender almost filiform branches. 

 Leaves lanceolate-subulate, spreading, concave at the short broad base, 

 tapering to a rigid point, 2 to 3 lines long, the floral ones more lanceolate, 

 shorter than the calyx and forming an involucre round it. Sepals lanceolate, 

 very acute, about 3 lines long. Corolla rather exceeding the calyx, the 

 petals quite free or scarcely cohering above the base, the very short broad 

 claws much imbricate as well as the broadly oblong-lanceolate lobes or 

 iRmiiife. Anthers glabrous, cohering in a ring round the style, each with a 

 small inflected point at the base. — F. Mucll. Fragm. vi. 60 ; Poncelelia mon- 

 (icola^ A. Cunn. ; DC. Prod. vii. 768. 



N. S. Wales. On rocks perpetually wet near Campbeirs Cataract, Blue Mountains, 

 A. Cun7}i7igham ; near Sidney (or Blue Mountains?), Vernon. 



3. S. incarnata, Sm. Tracts, 272. ^.2. An erect shrub, sometimes 

 low and straggling, more frequently a few feet high and said to attain some- 

 times 8 to 12 ft. Leaves above the broad concave base tapering into a 

 spreading or recurved long or short rigid or pungent point, varying from 

 under \ in. to near I in. long, the floral ones similar but smaller, the iuner- 

 Kiost with scarlous margins but similar points, much shorter than the calyx 

 and forming an involucre round it. Sepals from under 3 to fully 4 lines 

 long, linear or linear-lanceolate, coloured. Corolla pink, about equal to the 

 calyx, the petals almost free, the very short claws valvate and slightly co- 

 nenng, the lobes or laminai rotately spreading, slightly imbricate in the bud 

 in the upper half, the lower portion valvate or sliglitly reduplicate. Fila- 

 jneuts iiliform ; anthers connivent or more frequently cohering in a ring round 

 the style, more or less covered outside with transparent hairs or papilla or 

 rarely quite glabrous. Style filiform.— R. Br. Prod. 555 ; DC. Prod. vii. 

 ^^8; Hook. f. Fl Tasm. i. 264; P. Muell. Fragm. vi. 59; Lodd.Bot. Cab. 

 t. 262 ; Poiretia cucullata, Cav. Ic. t. 313 (not good). 



W. S, Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mouiitaius, i2. Brown, Sieher, n. 72, and 

 ^^^ ; in the interior (with very hrge flowers), M'Ari/mr. 



,,Tm '^^' ^^ear Portland, RoherUon, Allltt, and thence to Gipps' Land, F. Mueller, 

 3^'^Mount William in the Grampians, at au elevation of 4000 ft., WUhelmL 

 isl. i*f ^7?'*- "'^^^g's Island and Port Dalrjmple, E. Brown ; conimon thi-oughout the 

 «*^a, J. B, Soaker. 



5. Australia- 



•"able, and the anthers are sometimes quite free it. specimens from N. S. A^ Jes as well as 

 » l^maniaa ones. S. prnpinqaa, A. Cuuu. ; DC. Prod. vii. 768 ; Hook f Fl lasm. i. 

 anttif" '"''^'•«'^'''«> Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Joara. vi. 273), distiuguished by tree hairy 

 D jj"^' niust, therefore, with S. montana, be united with S. incarnata, as suggested by J. 



22. ANDERSONIA, U. Br. 



(Atherocephala, DC. Ilomalostoma and Sphiucterostoma, Stschegl.) 



t'oioUa-tube cylindrical or contracted above the ovary ; lobes 5, valvate in 



