222 CXIV: SANTALACEJE, [ Leptomeria. 
turbineto] the lobes rather longer. Epigynous disk very prominenta 
bu e, without the distinct glandlike lobes of L. Billardieri. Stigm 
ene ^s lobed.—A. DC. Prod. xiv. 680; L. ericoides, Miq. in Pl 
Preiss. i. 611, A. DC. l.c. 679; LL. chrysadena, Miq. l.c. 61 12, A.DC; Le. 
"WV. Austr alia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Preiss, 
n. 2117, YS Oldfield. 
Miquel describes the bracts as persistent in his Z. ericoides, which I do not find to 
be the case in the specimens I have seen, except at the top of the young spike 
5. L. yw R. Br. Prod. 953. An erect broom-like shrub, attain- 
ing 6 to 8 feet, the virgate branches much more angular than in 
Billardieri, leafless at the time of flowering, the minute linear- 
lanceolate scale-like leaves falling off very early fe rom the young shoots. 
Spikes more slender than in L. Billardieri, often 4 to 2 in. long and the 
flowers much smaller. Pat- tube narrow- turbinate, tapering at 
the base, but sessile, the limb of the same fulyous colour as the tube, 
barely 2 line diameter when open, the pias much hooded, MS re 
tips. Epi our disk somewhat lar but not lobed 
minutely lo A. DC. Prod. xiv. 627; Endl. Iconogr. t. Zu 
id PR rou island, F. Mu eer 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Moun tains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 132, 
and many others; northward to Hastings ih Beckler ; southward to Twofold bay, 
ictoria. Genoa Peak, F, Mueller. 
6. L. Billardieri, R. Br. Prod. 354. An erect prona De shrub, 
attainin lodtetimes 6 or 7 ft. but Baca sometimes under 9 , the Ahhaa 
Holl. i. 68, t 
mi 3 ek —— — Tweed river, C. Moore——The flowers 
are smaller fn an ib the Tasmanian specimens, but E distinctly stipitate, the perianth- 
Tasmania. 
near the N. coast, $ D. 
7. L. aphylla, 2. Br. Prod. 854. An erect shrub of 8 to $ ft. with 
rigid spreading branches: often spinescent at the end, qui @ ferte 
without prominent ridges, leafless at the time of P Saa Sis ib. I hav 
not succeeded in ipis, ny young shoots with scale-like leaves sall 
persistent. Flowers rather numerous, in lateral racemes of 3 or 4 lines; 
the rhachis rather "thick; Perianth-tube narrow-turbinate, the lo 
dark-coloured when dry, opening to nearly 1 line in diameter. Epi- 
