CXXXII. EPACRIDE.E. 



523 



Archeria hirtella. 



Vertical section of ovary, 



showing the upright 



ovules and basilar 



style. 



Leucopogon. 



Transverse section f 



fruit (mag.). 



Leucopogon. 



Vertical section of fruit, showing Leucopogon. 



the pendent seeds and sub- Seed cut verti- 



terminal style (mag.). cally (mag.). 



SHRUBS or SMALL TREES, stems and branches inarticulate. LEAVES alternate, 

 often close-set, rarely opposite, usually petioled, sometimes sheathed at the base, ex- 

 stipulate. FLOWERS $ , rarely incomplete by suppression, in terminal spikes or 

 racemes, or axillary and solitary, pedicels with 2 or more cylindrical bracts. CALYX 

 4-5-partite, persistent. COROLLA monopetalous, inserted on the receptacle, tubular, 

 bell- funnel- or salver-shaped, base of tube naked within or with bundles of hairs 

 or glands alternating with the stamens ; limb 4-5-fid, regular, valvate or imbricate 

 in bud ; lobes rarely cohering, in which case the corolla dehisces transversely above the 

 persistent base of the tube (Richea, Cystanthe}. STAMENS 4-5, rarely fewer, hypo- 

 gynous or epipetalous, alternate with the corolla-lobes ; anthers basifixed, simple, with 

 2 longitudinal valves, and one complete polliniferous septum ; pollen sub-globose or 

 3-globate. OVARY free, sessile on a disk, or surrounded at its base by free or connate 

 hypogynous glands, 2-10- (rarely 1-) celled; style simple; stigmas undivided; ovules 

 pendulous, rarely erect (Archeria), solitary from the top of the cell, or many on pro- 

 jecting placentas, anatropous. FRUIT 2 or more, rarely 1 -celled (by suppression), 

 either a drupe with many 1-seeded stones, or a septi-loculi-cidal many-seeded capsule 

 with the placentas free or attached to the central column. EMBRYO straight, cylin- 

 dric, in the axis of a fleshy albumen ; cotyledons very short ; radicle superior in the 

 drupes, various in the capsules. 



TRIBE I. STYPHELIE^E. Ovary with 1-ovuled cells. Fruit a drupe. 



Pentachondra. 



Leucopogon. 



Monotoca. 



PKINCIPAL GENERA. 



Acrotriche. 



Lissanthe. 



Trockocarpa. 



Melicbrus. 

 * Stenanthera. 

 Conostephium. 



* Styphelia. 

 Aatroloma. 

 Cyathodes. 



TRIBE II. EPACRE^E. Ovary-cells many-ovuled. Fruit capsular. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Lysinema. 

 Ricliea. 



Archeria. 

 * Sprengelia. 



* Epacris. 

 Andersonia. 



Prionotis. 

 Dracophyllum. 



