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lar, short-exserted, half to two-thirds of an inch long, of a fulgent 
red, very rarely white or yellow; the lobes semilanceolar, much 
shorter than the tube, with a portion of which outside appressed- 
downy ; the tube bearded inside at the base and opposite to the 
adnate filaments by fringed scales or grooves ; filaments free at the 
summit and flat ; anthers fixed at the inner apex of the filament, 
erect, broad-oval, opening with one longitudinal slit. Style 
thread-like ; stigma minute, roundish ; disk around the ovary 
undivided. Fruit oval, pulpless, nearly as long as the calyx, 
of woody hardness, oval, five-celled. Seeds ellipsoid, albumi- 
nous ; embryo straight. This Styphelia was named in honor of 
Dr. Sonder of Hamburg, who largely extended the knowledge of 
the Epacridee. It has its geographic limits within West 
Victoria and South Australia. 
We pass now on to the beautiful genus Epacris, one species of 
which for the often brilliant red flowers and the copiousness of its 
appearance is a great ornament in the native vegetation. This is 
the Epacris impressa, which in all its variations remains readily 
recognised by the five impressions at the base of the corolla, 
alternate with the stamens. The flowers vary from deep red to 
pure white in all intermediate shades; but this is our only 
Epacris, which shows this play of color, the other Victorian 
species bearing flowers, which with unvaried constancy are white. 
Three of these are lowlands species, namely E. obtusifolia, E. 
lanuginosa and E. microphylla, while three others are exclusively 
alpine, viz., E. heteronema, E. petrophila and E. serpillifolia. 
The generic name was applied, because some of the species are 
restricted to summits of mountain-ranges. Our only Richea 
(one out of eight alpine Tasmanian) bears the name of one of the 
naturalists of D’Entrecasteaux’s Expedition. This one (R. 
Gunnii), named in honor of Ronald Gunn, Hsq., of Launceston, 
forms by its dense tall growth and prickly foliage a great 
impediment to travellers on the mossy moors of the Australian 
Alps. Our only Sprengelia (S. incarnata) fills many of the moory 
swamps of the southern and eastern regions of our territory, 
attaining a height of many feet. 
