264 LXVii. EPACRiDEiE. [JDracopJif/Ihm. 



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peduncle with closely appressed leaves. Spikes short and almost glohnlar, 

 and flowers of Z>. capitatiim, but usually larger, the sepals above 4 Unes long 

 and the corolla-lobes about 3 lines. Filaments more or less adnate. Hypo- 

 gynous ^Q?\t^oxd.i^.~Sphenotoma dracoj)7iylloides, Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 335. 



^V. Australia^ Brummond ; Kojonerup hills near Cape Riche, Preiss^n, 446; thence 

 to E. Mount Barren, Maxwell; Stirling Range, F. Mueller, 



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_ 6. D. capitatum, R. Br. Trod. 556. A slender shrub, with few long 

 virgate branches, attaining 3 or 4 ft., but sometimes ahiiost simple and not 

 half so high, usually glabrous. Lower leaves and those of the barren shoots 

 erect or spreading but not recurved, linear-lanceolate, very acute, | to 1 in. 

 long, those of the long peduncle-like extremities of the flowering branches 

 smaller aud closely appressed. Flowers in short and globular or rarely 

 ovate-oblong heads or spikes, each one sessile within a lanceolate or almost 

 ovate acute or acuminate bract about as long as the calyx ; the bracteoles 

 much shorter. Sepals about 3 lines long. Corolla-tube glabrous, as long as 

 the sepals, contracted upwards ; lobes very broad, nearly as long as the 

 tube, with longitudinal ridges at the base almost closing the orifice. Fila- 

 ments slightly adnate to the tube in the middle. Hypogynous scales broad, 

 often united in a tnmcate disk. Ovary ghibrous.— 13ot. Slag. t. 3634 ; 

 J.ofld Bot. Cab. t. 1846 ; Sphemtoma capitatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1515 ; 

 IJC. Frod. vu. 771; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 335 : Epacris capUata,Vo\x.'D\d. 

 Siippl. u. 556. > J' r ' 



W. Australia. Sandy places, King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brom, 

 ielT "- ^^^' ^''''''' ""■ '**^' ^^^-^^^^' ^- ^■^«^/^^'-'- Cape Riche, 3I^x- 



This species, with Z». phloglflomm and D. parvijorum, might almost be considered as 

 £iummo)!dii ^''^"'^' ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^y <^loseIy connected with D. squarrosim and !>■ 



A ft ^-.S'f ^^^^J ^- ^'•- ^'•od. 556. A very slender shrub, attaining 3 or 

 4 It., with long virgate flowering branches, the inflorescence usually pu- 

 bescent b-ut othenvise glabrous or nearly so. Lower leaves and those of the 

 Daiien branches lanceolate-subulate, acutely acuminate, very spreading or 

 recuiTed, under i in. long, those of the long peduncle-like extremities of the 

 nowermg branches small and closely appressed. Flowers in dense ovate or 

 Oblong spikes of i to 1 in., each one sessile and solitary within a striate 

 ciiiate acuminate bract as long as the calyx ; bracteoles much shorter, acu- 

 mmate with cdiate keels. Sepals 2^ to nearly 3 lines long, lanceolate, striate 



rnTv. ."'""'"''"V'''''''^''- Corolla-tube slender, cylindrical, as loi.g as the 

 vp I ; '"^ T""^ contracted upwards as in D. capilatum ; lobes broad, 

 m^nt !f^ ^"^ "f "" *^.' ^'^^'' ^'^th longitudinal folds at the base. Ba- 

 rnnuh, n K , '^^'^^^ "^''^^^^ °f «ie tube. Hypogynous disk short and 

 2678 ^^A^i^: r?r^ ^^'^''^''' «r minutely pubescent.-Bot. Mag..t. 



Sond t^Tv'^'^ ^'.''i:^^''^^^^^^- ^^^^^^^ 44; DC. Prod. vii. 771; 

 bond, m PI. Preiss. i. 336 ; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 66. 



R ^;^^"Srk^°™'"':," "' Tr^ P'^<=^«' King George's Sound and adjoining districts, 

 a. B, own, Ba^te> , Urummond, n. 102. 2nd Coll. I. 2fi 1 ; Prehs, n. 418, and others. , 



