Leucopogon. | EPACRIDE. 415 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i. 165; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 178; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
ivy. 218. lL. nesophilus, D.C. Prodr. vii. 752. Li. Bellignianus, 
Raoul, Choix, 18, t. 12. 
NortH anp SoutH Isntanps, Stewart IstanD: Abundant in dry heathy 
places throughout, ascending to 4500 ft. Totara. September—January. 
Also in Australia and Tasmania. The drupe is juicy, sweetish, and edible. 
4. EPACRIS, Forst. 
Usually erect rigid heath-like shrubs. Leaves sessile or shortly 
petioled, crowded or imbricated, articulated on the branch, never 
sheathing. Flowers solitary and axillary, often extending along 
the branches for a considerable distance, sessile or shortly pe- 
duncled, white or red. Bracts numerous, imbricating, clothing the 
peduncle and concealing the base of the calyx. Calyx 5-partite ; 
corolla-tube cylindric or campanulate; lobes 5, imbricate, spread- 
ing. Stamens 5; filaments short, adnate to the corolla - tube; 
anthers affixed above the middle, wholly or partly included in the 
corolla-tube. Hypogynous disc of 5 free or rarely connate scales. 
Ovary 5-celled; ovules numerous, attached to a central placenta. 
Capsule 5-celled, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds numerous. 
A genus comprising 25 species, all of which are confined to Australia and 
Tasmania, except the two found in New Zealand, both of which are endemic. 
Erect, 2-8ft. high. Leaves 4-4in., rhomboid - ovate, 
usually acuminate. Bracts very numerous, acute .. 1. E. paucifiora. 
Erect or decumbent, 1-4 ft. Leaves 1-4 in., broadly ellip- 
tical, obtuse. Bractsfew, obtuse .. : 2. H. alpina. 
1, EB. paucifiora, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 213, t. 29.—A 
slender erect shrub, usually from 38 to 6ft. high, but occasionally 
attaining 8-10 ft. or more, sometimes reduced to a few inches; 
branches often fascicled, erect, leafy, virgate, puberulous at the 
tips. Leaves suberect, imbricating, 14+in. long, ovate or rhom- 
boid - ovate or oblong - obovate, suddenly narrowed into a biuntly 
acuminate point, shortly petiolate, concave, very thick and coria- 
ceous, veinless, glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers small, white, 
copiously produced towards the tips of the branches. Peduncles 
shorter than the leaves, entirely concealed by numerous imbricating 
ovate acute bracts, the uppermost of which closely invest the calyx. 
Corolla-tube hardly longer than the calyx ; lobes spreading, broadly 
oblong, obtuse. Capsule small.—A. Cunn. Precur.n. 411. Raoul, 
Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 166; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 179. 
Var. Sinclairii.—Leaves obtuse, not narrowed into acuminate points.— 
E. Sinelairii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 179. 
NortH anp SoutH Istanps: Open clay hills from the North Cape to Col- 
lingwood and Westport, but rare and local south of the Waikato and Thames 
Rivers. Sea-level to 2000ft. Flowers most of the year. Var. Sinclairii: 
Great Barrier Island, Sinclair! Kirk ! 
