164. FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Epacridee. 
character Mr. Brown detected, and applied in distinguishing them. The flowers are smaller than in Tasmanian spe- 
cimens of C. oxycedrus. 
2. Cyathodes oxycedrus, Br.; fruticosa, erecta v. decumbens, foliis semiuncialibus linearibus lineari- 
subulatisve acerosis pungentibus margine nudis subtus 3-5-nerviis nervis omnibus simplicibus. Br. Prodr. 
DC. Prodr. 
Var. 8; foliis longe lineari-subulatis aristatis 2-uncialibus. 
Var. y; decumbens, foliis sparsis patulis $-uncialibus. 
Has. Middle and Southern Islands. New River, Herb. A. Richard. Bluff Island, Lyall. Var. B. 
Dusky Bay, Menzies. Var. y. Port Underwood, Lyall. Nat, name, “ Pa totara,” Middle Island, Lyalt. 
I very much doubt this species being distinct from C. acerosa, from which it differs in the narrower, more 
subulate leaves, with fewer veins below, all simple (none branched). I have not seen flowers except in Mr. 
Menzies’ specimens of var. 8; they entirely resemble those of C. acerosa, being smaller than those of the Tasmanian 
C. oxycedrus. 
8. Cyathodes empetrifolia, Hook. fil.; caulibus prostratis gracilibus incanis, ramulis ascendentibus, 
foliis parvis patulis linearibus subacerosis obtusis marginibus recurvis subtus glaucis incanis puberulis 
ciliatisve, floribus solitariis binisve parvis, bracteis calycisque lobis ciliatis. Androstoma empetrifolia, 77. 
Antaret. p. 44. t. 30. 
Has. Mountainous regions of all the Islands, abundant, Bidwill, Colenso, ete. 
A common straggling mountain plant, with slender, heath-like, prostrate, leafy branches, and very small white 
axillary flowers. Stems 1-2 feet long. Leaves very uniform, + inch long, spreading, rigid, linear, blunt, convex 
and smooth or hoary above, margins recurved, under surface glaucous, ciliated, pubescent or glabrous. Peduncle 
very short, clothed with imbricating bracteolee, the two upper of which are rather larger than the rest. Corolla 
scarcely exserted. Drupes two- to five-celled. —I made of this plant (which I discovered in Lord Auckland's Group) 
a new genus, characterized by the stamens being placed at the very mouth of the corolla, and hence exserted, while 
Cyathodes is described as having included filaments ; but I find that both C. acerosa and C. oxycedrus have the fila- 
ments always exserted, as in C. empetrifolia, and they must all therefore be kept in the same genus. 
Gen. II. LEUCOPOGON, Br. 
Calyx 2-3-bracteatus. Corolla infundibuliformis v. campanulatus; limbo patente, longitudinaliter 
barbato. Filamenta inclusa v. exserta. Ovarium 2-5-loculare ; loculis l-ovulatis. Drupa baccata v. 
exsucca, rarius crustacea. 
This is a very extensive Australian and Tasmanian genus, some of the species giving a heathery appearance to 
the landscape in many places. There are Pacific Island and Malayan species also, but few and scattered. It differs 
from Cyathodes in the calyx having but two (rarely three) bractex, and in the lobes of the corolla being always 
bearded. The drupe is sometimes reduced to a coriaceous pericarp and hard one-celled one-seeded nut; at others it 
is like that of Cyathodes, round and fleshy. (Name from Aevros, white, and royo», a beard.) 
1. Leucopogon fasciculatus, A. Rich.; fruticosa v. arbuscula, foliis planis patulis lineari- v. obovato- 
lanceolatis oblongisve acuminatis pungentibusve marginibus planis ciliatis serrulatisve, spicis axillaribus et 
terminalibus aggregatis solitariisve 3-8-floris foliis «equilongis brevioribusve puberulis, floribus parvis, 
calycis lobis bracteisque obtusis viridibus. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. Hpacris, Forst. 
Prodr. Styphelia lanceolata, Banks et Sol. Ic. 
Var. 8; foliis subverticillatis breviter obovato-oblongis. 
Var. y; foliis parvis anguste lineari-lanceolatis pungentibus. 
