Pernetitya. | ERICACES. 409 
This was referred to P. tasmanica by Hooker, but it appears to constantly 
differ from that plant in the rather broader leaves, acute triangular calyx-lobes, 
longer filaments, which equal or exceed the style in length, and especially in the 
anther-cells having 2 minute awns at the tip, in this respect agreeing with the 
American species of the genus. 
OrpER XLII] BPACRIDEA. 
Shrubs or rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, seldom opposite, 
often crowded or imbricate, rigid, entire or sometimes serrulate, 
often longitudinally nerved; stipules wanting. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite, axillary or terminal, solitary or in spikes or racemes. 
Calyx inferior, 4—5-partite, or of 4-5 free sepals ; divisions persistent, 
coriaceous, striate, imbricate. Corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, 
4—5-lobed or -partite., Stamens 4-5, hypogynous or inserted on the 
tube or throat of the corolla; anthers 1-celled, opening longitudi- 
nally for their whole length. Disc surrounding the base of the 
ovary, cup-shaped or annular, 5-lobed or of 5 separate scales. 
Ovary superior, 1-10-celled but usually 5-celled; style simple, 
stigma usually capitate; ovules 1 or many in each cell, anatropous. 
Fruit either a drupe with 2-5 1-seeded pyrenes or a many-seeded 
capsule with loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds small, albuminous; 
embryo straight, axile, radicle next the hilum. 
A small order, mainly separated from Hricacee by the 1-celled anthers with 
longitudinal dehiscence. It is almost wholly confined to Australia and New 
Zealand, a few species only being found in the Pacific islands and the Malay 
Archipelago, and one in temperate South America. Genera 26; species about 
325. The properties of the order are unimportant, but many of the species are 
well worth cultivation from the beauty of their flowers. All the New Zealand 
genera are found in Australia. 
* Ovules solitary in each cell of the ovary. Fruit a drupe. 
Fruit with 5 distinct pyrenes .. a af .. 1. PENTACHONDRA. 
Fruit with a 5-celled hard endocarp. Pedicels with 
numerous imbricating bracts 5 2. CYATHODES. 
Pedicels with few bracts 3. LrucoPpocon. 
** Ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit a capsule. 
Leaves usually petiolate, not sheathing. Bracts numerous, 
imbricate, passing into the calyx nt AS .. 4. HPAcRIS. 
Leaves petiolate, not sheathing. Bracts few, deciduous .. 5. ARCHERIA. 
Leaves narrow, with broad sheathing bases ard .. 6, DRACOPHYLLUM. 
1. PENTACHONDRA, RB. Br. 
Spreading or prostrate shrubs. Leaves usually crowded, ovate- 
oblong or linear, striate. Flowers solitary or few together at the 
tips of the branches, axillary, on short peduncles. Bracts several, 
small, the uppermost with the rudiment of a second flower ; 
bracteoles appressed to the calyx. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube 
very short; lobes 5, revolute or recurved, bearded inside. Stamens 
