tho 

 tho 



Richea.] Lxvii. epaceidejb.. 261 



laments about 3 lines long ; anthers shortly lobed. Hypogynous scales 

 broad.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 267. 



Tasmania. Mount Wellington, H. Brown, J. T>. Hooker, and others ; Eecherclie 

 Bay, C. Stuart. E. Brown considered this as a luxuriant form of the same species, of 

 which A. scoparia is the alpine representative ; but both J. D. Hooker and Gunu observed 

 tliat the dififereiices were equally promiuent where the two grew together. Brown's only 

 «pecimen of the large form is a remarkably luxuriant one, with a very long, dense panicle, 

 approaching R. pandanifolia in foliage, but in fruit only, and thei-efure somewhat doubtful. 

 Those of the alpine form are rather numerous, and precisely our R. scoparia. 



8. R. pandanifolia. Hook. f. Fl. Ant. i. 50, and Fl. Tasm. i. 266. t. 

 84. A shrub or tree, attaining sometimes 36 ft. but often not above 20 ft., 

 and stunted in elevated situations, the simple or sparingly branched naked 

 trunk attaining 6 to 9 in. diameter, and crowned by a large tuft of long 

 ^vavy leaves like those of a Pandaniis, often 3 to 5 ft. long, tapering into a 

 long point, and bordered by minute, cartilaginous teeth. Panicles ovate, 2 

 to 3 in. long, looser aud broader than iu R. dracopJtylla, on peduncles of 4 

 to 8 in., but usually almost concealed by tlie leaves. Bracts imbricate, those 

 at the base of the' peduncle distichous' keeled, acuminate, 1 to 3 in. long; 

 '^-^se under the panicle longer and narrower, the innermost 3 to 4 in. long ; 



se within the panicle small and membranous, but almost all as well as the 

 hracteoies fallen off from our specimens. Branches of the panicle racemose, 

 the lower ones often 1 iu. long. Flowers small, like those oi R. Gnnnii. 

 Sepals very short and broad. Corolla broadly ovate-conical, 1 to 1^ lines 

 *o"g- Stamens usually exceeding the calyx. 



Tasmania. Dense mountain forests ia the interior and S.W. parts of the island, 

 ^unn, Backhouse, and others. 



24. DEACOPHYLLUM, Labill. 



(Sphenotoma, sect. R Br., gen. Bon) 



. Corolla-tube cylindrical, oblong or almost campanulate ; lobes 5, spreading, 

 imbricate in the bud. Stamens liypogvnous or the filaments more or less 

 adnata to the corolla-tube : anthers included in the tube, attached at or above 

 the middle, entire or 2 -lobed. Hypogynous disk of 5 distinct scales. 

 Ovary 5-celled, with several ovules in each cell, attached to a placeiita sus- 

 pended from an erect or recurved stipes proceeding from the axis. Style m- 

 ^«ted in a shallow or deep and tubular depression of the ovary ; stigma 

 small or larger and shortly 5-lobed.-Shrub3 or small trees, having then a 

 r'onocotyledonous aspect. Leaves crowded at the ends of the brancbe oi 

 "'}bncate along the.n, very concave above the sheathing bases, which tall ott 

 rf li the leaf, leaving annular scars on tlie denuded stem or branches 

 blowers in terminal compound racemes or panicles or simple spikes oi Leads. 



The genus is spread over Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand and t^e AntaretTc 

 xlZl ^^' ^''''^^^^^ ^P'-'cies are all endemic, with the exception of one ^J ^l^^PP^^r 

 W the same as a New Zealand one. The annular scars of the leaves aud peed ar placen 

 jat^D distinguish it from all except Richea, from which it di&rs m the expandmg corolla 



^"^ers in a eomjiound raceme or panicle with very deciduous bracts. Corolla 

 Without longitudinal folds at the base of the lobes. 



