Epacridea.'] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 8 U) 
Islands, and one species at least is a native of Chili. In habit and appearance the l' r t -ri,l,;r remarkabU 
imitate the Ericea, all being shrubs, none attaining a great size, and the majority l»c-in<r rigid, bushy plants, 
with evergreen, coriaceous leaves, inhabiting dry heathy tracts, and often conspicuous for tin 
and abundance of their flowers. 140 species arc described in Brown's IVodromus, pnblished in I MO. and 
214 in De Candolle's, to which upwards of 120 have since been added, chiefly from Swan River and South- 
eastern Australia and Tasmania; besides these, a considerable number remain iindescribed in our Herbaria. 
As however considerable reductions must be made amongst the species of some genera, perhaps . 'Wo will 
approximate to the number of known Australian species. Of these about L2 are ahnoM exclusively tropi- 
cal species, 170 inhabit the South-eastern, and 160 the South-Western quarters of Australia; scarcely any 
are common to both these last areas. Of the genera, 1 1- are peculiar to the South-east, and lo to the 
South-west quarters, and only 8 are common to both. As many as 10 genera, and about 1" 
confined to Tasmania, and especially to the mountains of that Island ; some of these extend to the moun- 
tains of Victoria. 
Div. I. Ovules solitary. Fruit a berry or nut, with u/e$kjf W iff on/,;- ami. (Gen. I.-X.) 
Gen. I. STY Hi KM A. 5 . 
Calyx basi bract eat us ; bracteis 1- v. pluribu*. < ' r '■'>• tubus elongafus ba-i 
rum ; limbi lacinise revolute, barbate. FUamt ''■} pogyna- 5, rarius nn 
subexsucca; putainine osseo, solido, 5-loculari. — I 
floribus axillaribus, speciosis ; pedtmcidis l-.'i 
prostrate or erect branches, scattered, acuminate, shortly petioleil leave-, a:, 
with four or more bracts. Corolla wiih a long tube, famished ai the base m-ide with tiv. 
lobes bearded. Filaments exsertcd. Fruit scarcely fleshy, with a five-celled endoied nm 
from crru^Aos, rigid.) 
1. Styphelia adscendens (Br. Prodr. 537) ; caule prostrato, ramis diffusis adscendentibus, foftl 
planis margine ciliato-scaberulis lanceolatis pungenti-acuminatis subtus gl.-un. striol fcu n. I 
parallelis lateralibus extus penniveniis, floribus solitariis axillaribus breve pedunculitis, bracteis late ovatis, 
sepalis submembranaceis ovatis subacutis, corolla? tubo ± breviore.— DC. Prodr. 735. {Gunn, 019.) 
Hab. Dry pastures, etc, heaths near Hobarton and Circular Head; common.— (Fl. Oct. 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia; Victoria, Hobertson ; Grampians, Mueller. (Introduced into Eng- 
land.) 
A much branched, diffuse, rigid plant, forming matted patches a foot act 
the latter ascending at the tips, leafy, wiry. Leaves J-§ inch . » ™*i 
acuminate, with a slender, rigid, setose point; margins riliolat 
cous. Flowers solitary, sessile, reddish, longer than the leaves. Ca/y-r-havi-s rather luein ranou-. 
shorter than the tube of the corolla. Nut oblong, very hard and woody, five-celled. 
Gen. II. ASTROLOMA, Br. 
Calyx basi bracteatus, bracteis 4 v. pluribus. 
Corolla tubus ventricosus, calycc duplo longior, basi 
i fasciculis 5 villorum ; limbi lacinise breves, barbate. 
formis.' Drupa subexsucca; putamine osseo, solido, 5-loculari.-Frutices humiles, mpim dijjusx ; foliis 
sparsis, scepe ciliatis ; floribus axillaribus, erect is. 
About twenty species of this genus are known, cl 
i of the South-v 
