260 LXVII. EPACRIDE^, \Ric1m, 



5. R. Gunnii, IlooJc.f, in ITooJc. Lond, Jotirn. vi. H^^aud FL Tasni.l 

 267. t. 86. An erect shrub of 1 to 3 ft. Leaves lanceolate, tnperiiifj into a 

 pungent point, usually spreading or recurved, rarely erect or incuiTed, the 

 larger ones above 1 in. long, the upper ones with a shorter point, passing 

 into the floral leaves or bracts, which are broadly membranous and coloured 

 at the base, enclosing the clusters of buds, and terminating in a rigid point, 

 but fall off before the flowers expand. Flowers in clusters or short spikes, 

 sessile along the simple rhachis of a spike-like, pedunculate panicle of 2 to 

 4 in., each flower nearly sessile within a bract and 2 bracteoles like the 

 sepals, but naiTower. Sepals ovate, acute, almost petal-like, scarcely If 

 lines long. Corolla ovate-conical, about 3 lines long, circumsciss very near 

 the base. Filaments filiform, about as long as the calyx; anthers oblong, 

 shortly 2-lobed. Hypogynous scales broad. 



Victoria. Mitta-Milla, Cobberas and Munyong mountains and others of the Austra- 

 lian Alps at an elevation of 4000 to 6000 ft., F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Summit of Mount Wellington and of the Western mouutaius at an eleva- 

 tion of 4000 to 5000 ft., 7. D, Eooher and others. 



6. R. scoparia, KooJcf. i?i Hook. Loud. Journ. vi. %n,andFl Tarn. 

 i. 2G7. A stout, rigid, erect shrub, usually about 2 ft. high, but attanung 

 in some situatious 5 ft. or more. Leaves lanceolate to almost subulate, with 

 a rigid, often pungent point, erect and imbricate or somewhat spreacung, 1 

 to 2 in. long, the ragged remains of the old sbeaths often remaining long 

 persistent, but at length leaving annular scars only as in the other species, 

 the floral ones exceedingly deciduous, shortly broad, and coloured at the base 

 with a long rigid point. Flowers white pink or orange-coloured, in ses»ie 

 clusters or very short spikes, in a simple spike-like panicle more dense than 

 in Ji, GiouiH, and usually sessile, each flower sessile or on a short tluc 

 pedicel, with a narrow membranous bract and 3 bracteoles at the case. 

 Sepals broad, petal-like, scarcely f line long. Corolla obovoid-oblong, nbou^ 

 4 lines long, circumsciss near the base. Filaments filiform, about ^ '^^^ 

 long; anthers shortly 2-lobed. Hypogynous scales broad, truncate.— n ■ 

 Ic. PI. t. 850; R. dracophylla, E. Br. Prod. 555 (as to the alpine form;; 

 Guillem. Ic. PI. Austral, t. 3. 



imania. Mount Welliugton, It. Brown, J, D. Hooker; Western mouatains an 

 others at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., J. i>. Hooker and others. 



7. R. dracophylla, K Br. Prod. 555 {partly).—^ stout shmb^ 



attaining 10 to 12 ft, or (according to Brown) arborescent ia certain s^^^»^ 

 tions, but scarcely taller than J?, scoparia on the summits of laoun a^^^^ 

 Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, lanceolate at the base, tap ^^d 

 into long subulate points, 6 in. to 1 ft. or even longer when luxurian ,^^^^^ 

 very deciduous floral ones or bracts with a very broad base of 1 ^*^' °J . ^' 

 and a long rigid point. Flowers white or pink, in narrow, dense, tei ^^^ 

 sessile panicles of 3 to 6 in. or even more, the secondary branc ^^ ^^^^ 

 peduncles often crowded at the base of the primary ones as in Dracop y ^ 

 verticillaliini, LabilL Bracts and bracteoles very deciduous, narrow, ^^^ 

 lines long. " Sepals very broad, mostly mucronate, about \ li"^ y^^* -pj^ 

 ToUa obovoid-obh:)ng, 4 to 5 lines long, circumsciss very near the bas . 



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