250 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Epacridea. 
A small, sparingly branched, twiggy species, 6-18 inches high.— Branches slender, erect or spreading, gla- 
brous or puberulous towards the tips. Leaves appressed or spreading, scattered or imbricating, i-| inch long, 
concave, subulate or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed to a long pungent point, glabrous or ciliated. Flowers small, in 
few-flowered, short spikes, which are axillary, and often crowded towards the ends of the branches. Bracts and 
sepals acute. Fruit very small. 
4. Leucopogon ericoides (Br. Prodr. 543) ; fruticulus erectus, foliis lineari-oblongis linearibusve 
suberectis patentibusve obtusis acutiusculisve pungenti-mucronatis margine recurvis revolutisve, spicis 
secus ramulos axillaribus 3-5-floris folio brevioribus, drupa exsucca angulata. — DC. Prodr. vii. 747. 
Styphelia ericoides, Smith, PL Nov. Roll. t. 48. Epacris spuria, Cav. Ic. iv. 27. t. 347./. 1. 
Yar. a; ramulis foliis drupisque glaberrimis. (Gunn, 196, 1982, 1983.) 
Var. /3 ; ramulis foliis drupisque plus minusve puberulis scaberulis pubescentibusve. — L. trichocarpus, 
Br. Prodr. 543. Styphelia tricbocarpa, Lab. Nov. Boll. i. 47. t. 66. (Gunn, 361, 1201, 1186.) 
Hab. "Very abundant throughout the Island, in dry heaths, etc. Tar. a. In poor sandy and marshy 
soil, Georgetown, Flinders' Island, and Macquarrie Harbour. Var. /?. Dry sandy soil near the sea at 
Georgetown, New Norfolk, etc.— (El. Oct., Nov.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, from Port Jackson to Victoria. (Introduced into England.) 
A common, variable, and very pretty plant, which may readily be known from its allies by its linear or linear- 
liiclj often tarn blackish in drying, with revolute margins, terminated with a pungent, long or short 
miKTo, arising from a blunt or acute apex, and by the spikes being produced so abundantly from the axils of the 
leares, that the twiggy branches look like long, compound spikes of inflorescence. The branches, rachis, and even 
It in ] bescent, at others quite glabrous. — Stems generally erect, of var. a 6 feet, and of var. /? 1-3 
feet high. Leaves usually patent, -|~f inch long, sometimes when short almost as broad as long, but always pTe- 
- v. i\ig i heir linear-oblong form. 
5. Leucopogon collhms (Br. Prodr. 543) ; fruticulus erectus v. ramis decumbentibus foliisque 
glaberrimis puberulisve, foliis erectis imbricatis patentibusve linearibus lineari-oblongisve subacutis muticis 
apiculo sphacelate marginibus revolutis ciliato-denticulatis, spicis brevibus ramulos terminantibus.— L. col- 
linus, ft DC. Prodr. vii. 748. Styphelia collina, Lab.? Nov. Roll. i. 47. t. 65. 
Tar. a; 2-3-pedalis, foliis i-uncialibus ciliato-denticulatis. {Gunn, 1191, 211, 34.) 
Var. /3; 1-2-pedalis, foliis late oblongis brevibus £-pollicaribus. (Gunn, 1190.) 
"N ar. y; 1-2-pedalis, foliis anguste oblongis i-pollicaribus squarroso-patentibus. [Gunn, 1188, 1189.) 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, in dry, gravelly places, etc. Var. a. Circular Head and 
Georgetown. Var. 7 . Abundant near Hobarton.— (El. Oct., Nov.) (v. v.) 
Ihsz&lB. South-eastern Australia. (Introduced into England.) 
This again closely resembles both L. virgatus and L. ericoides in general appearance, but is very distinct from 
both, differing from L. virgatus in the leaves not being concave and narrowed into a pungent point, and from Eri- 
ooidet in the spikes being crowded at the ends of short branches, and the leaves not being terminated with a pun- 
gent mucro ; from the two following species it is not so easily distinguished, and I suspect its smaller forms pass 
into these. De Candolle considers Brown's L. collinus 1 to be a different variety, and possibly species, from Labil- 
lardiere's (and makes of it his var. Brownii), distinguished by the margins of the leaves being recurved and less 
ciliated; it is hence possible that A. Cunningham's L. ciliatus, may be Labillardiere's L. collinus; but as I have 
little doubt that these are varieties of one plant (of which that with recurved leaves is the ordinary form), I hesitate 
to change the existing nomenclature.— Plant glabrous or slightly pubescent on the branches and leaves. Branches 
generally bright red. Leaves i-± inch long, linear-oblong, with recurved margins, and blunt or acute, sphacelated 
tips, their margins always denticulate and more or less ciliated, patent or appressed. 
