in 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEw. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 7.] (1910. 
XXXI.—EPACRIS HETERONEMA, Labill, AND 
E. DUBIA, Lindl. 
(With Plates.) 
O. STAPF. 
In Flora Australiensis (vol. iv., p. 239) the area of Epacris 
heteronema, Labill., is described as including Tasmania and parts of 
Victoria and New South Wales. The Tasmanian specimens, with 
one exception, are referred to typical EL. heteronema, the remainder 
to a “var. ? planifolia,” whilst, in a note, #. dubia, Lindl., is said to 
be possibly a garden variety of E. heteronema. With respect to 
this FE. dubia, certain questions have been referred to Kew 
Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New 
South Wales, with a view to finding out what Lindley’s plant might 
be. They were occasioned by a, note in the Kew Bulletin, 1909, 
p-. 228, in which an Epacris that had flowered at Kew was with 
some reserve referred to E. dubia, as var. subreflexa, It was clear 
from the note that in E. heteronema, in the sense of the Flora 
Australiensis, we had to deal with an ill-defined type which required 
further and closer examination. ‘This examination has been carried 
out and the results are embodied in the subjoined remarks. 
Epacris heteronema was discovered by Labillardiére in Recherche 
Bay in the extreme south of Tasmania, and described and very 
well figured in his Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen (vol. i., 
p. 42, tab. 56) in 1804. One of Labillardiére’s original specimens 
is at Kew, and there can be no doubt as to the plant which he 
meant. Mr. Maiden collected it again in the “locus classicus ” 
two years ego. The other localities of HE. heteronema, Labill., 
represented at Kew, are :—South Port, about 10 miles north of 
Recherche Bay, Mt. La Perouse, north-west of Recherche Bay, 
Port Davey, on the south-west coast of Tasmania, and “high 
healthy plains between the Franklin and Gordon Rivers near 
Macquarie Harbour,” about 50 miles north of Port Davey. 
In 1833 an “ Epacris heteronema” was figared in the Botanical 
Magazine (tab. 2357), from a specimen grown at Kew, and it was 
stated that the plant had been introduced by A, Cunningham from 
the Blue Mountains (New South Wales). This “ £. heteronema ” 
of the Botanical Magazine was soon afterwards recoguised by 
A. P. De Candolle as,a form distinct from the Tasmanian plant and 
(17122—6a.) Wt. 92—428, 1375, 8/10. D&S. 
