243 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Epacridea. 
margins, glaucous below, with several parallel nerves, the outer sometimes branching towards the margin. Flowers 
very small, crowded two or four together on very short axillary racemes or spikes. Calyx bibracteate, obtuse. 
Corolla urceolate, very short, its tube and limb glabrous. Fruit fleshy, large, white, transparent.— Mueller sends a 
South Australian variety covered with a hoary pubescence. 
3. Lissanthe daphnoides (Br. Prodr. 541) ; fruticulus strictus erectus, foliis elliptico- v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis concaviusculis mucrone calloso brevissimo v. nullo marginibus nudis v. subciliatis dorso inter 
uervos exaratis, tloribus axillaribus solitariis, calyce obtuse bibracteato, tubo corollse infundibuliforrni calyce 
ter longiore fauce villosa limbo glabro. — Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 466. Styphelia daphnoides, Smith, Nov. HolL 
p. 48. 
Hab. Tasmania, Brown, Scott 
DiSTitiB. South-eastern and South-western Australia. (Introduced into England.) 
An erect, sparingly branched shrub, with rather stout, elongate branches, and pubescent branchlets. — Leaves 
scattered, erect, -L~i inch long, elliptical or oblong or elliptical-lanceolate, glabrous or pubescent, blunt or with a 
small blunt apiculus, under -urt'ace veined, grooved between the veins, the three central nerves parallel, the rest 
branching to the margin. Flmcers axillary, solitary, almost sessile, small, white. Calyx small, blunt, bibracteate, 
one-sixth the length of the tube of the corolla. Lobes of the corolla short, glabrous; throat bearded. — L. Cunning - 
ha,»i, DC, appears to be a variety of this species. 
4. Lissanthe ciliata (Br. Prodr. 541) j fruticulus erectus v. prostratus, foliis erecto-patentibus 
elliptico- v. oblougo-lanceolatis planis acuminatis pungentibus marginibus glabris ciliatisve subtus nervis 
tateralibos penninerviis, floribas axillaribus solitariis subsessilibus calyce acuto eorolke tubo \ breviore, 
corolla brcviuscula, limbo glabro v. subbarbato. (Gum, 523 in part, 1986.) 
Hab. ^Northern parts of the Island : Bocky Cape, Georgetown, and Launceston, Gwm. — (Fl. Nov.) 
Distrib. Grampian M< I r. (Introduced into England.) 
This species closely resembles L. dapl . ides bul n ... b( r .. ; '- i tinguished by the shorter, more procum- 
bent stems and ascending branches, the pungent apices to the leaves, the i much shorter 
corolla, which has a nearly glabrous or villous limb ; from the latter character it seems to unite Lissanthe with Leu- 
copogon . 
Gen. VI. LEUCOPOGON, Br. 
Calyx 2- rarms 3-4-bracteatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo patente dense barbato. Filamenta 
inclusa v. subexserta. Dis< > •* hypogyuus cyathiformis (rarius 0), 5-lobatus v. 5-partitus. Dmpa sicca v. 
subbaccata; putaminc 1-5-loculari, loculis 1-spermis. — Rrutices erieoi ibconfertis, im- 
brieaiisve; tloribus axillaribus termin \positis, albis. 
One of the lamest and most abundant Australian genera, whose species covti w lo t ot 1 l 1 with a 
Heather-like vegetation. Upwards of 120 species are known, of which about 40 are found in the South-eastern 
quarter, 70 in the South-western, 10 in the Tropics, and six or seven are common to the South-eastern and South - 
A wr\ ww species are also found in New Zealand and the mountains of the Malay Islands, and 
one in the Malay Peninsula. — Shrubs rarely tall, though sometimes 6-8 feet Irign, usually low and Heath-like, 
with small, white flower-, and small, persistent, rigid leaves. F-V, «■"/■* in axilla u or terminal, short, few-flowered 
racemes, or almost sessile, conspicuous for the tuft of white down on the lobes of the corolla. Calyx with two or 
rarely three bracts at its base, its sepals blunt or acute. Corolla tubular or tun el-shaped Stamens included or 
^lightly xsertcd. seated at the mouth of the corolla. Disc cup-shaped, five-lobed. Ovary five-celled; cells onc- 
ovuted. Fntit a coriaceous or crustaceous, one- to five-celled nut, with generally a very scanty, fleshy epicarp. 
