252 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Epacridea*. 
Distkib. Victoria : Mount Wellington, Mueller ; New Zealand. 
Very unlike any of the preceding species, and easily recognized by its small size, and large, solitary, axillary 
flowers. I had long considered it to be specifically different from the New Zealand L. Frozen, but find that the 
characters I distinguished these by, namely the venation of the leaves and length of the corolla, are not constant. 
— A very small species, 4-8 inches high, with slender, wiry, prostrate stems, and erect or ascending branches, 2-3 
inches long. Leaves scattered, loosely imbricated, % inch long, \ broad, coriaceous, flat, lanceolate or oblong-Ian. 
ceolate, with a very long, pungent, acuminate point. Sepals oblong, blunt, twice as long as the ovate bracts, and 
only half as long as the tube of the corolla. Corolla erect, as long as the leaves. Drupe three- to five-celled. 
Gen. VII. MONOTOCA, Br. 
Calyx 2-bracteatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo fauceque imberbibus. Discus hypogynus cyathi- 
lormis. Ovarium 1-loculare, 1-ovulatum. Drupa baccata. — Frutices v. arbusculse; foliis sparsis ; spicis 
<Hoieis. 
This is another small genus of Epacridea, very closely allied to Leucopogon, but differing in the glabrous co- 
rolla, and structure of the ovary, which is one-celled only, and the drupe consequently is only one-seeded. The 
species, of which there arc about right, arc all confined to extratropical Australia, and so closely resemble Leuco- 
pogon that it is difficult to discriminate them without dissecting the ovary. (Name from fiovos, one, and tokos, a 
li'iili ■ in allusion to the one-ovuled ovary.) 
1. Monotoca lineata (Brown, Prodr. 547); arbuscula, ramulis gracilibus puberulis, foliis patenti- 
bus rigidis obovatis oblongis lineari-oblongis linearibusve acutis acuminatisve pungentibns subtus glaucis 
multiiurviis planis marginibusve recurvis, spicis nutantibus axillaribus folio multoties brevioribus, rachi 
puberula, bracteis deciduis, floribus minimis.— #C. Prodr. vii. 755. Styphelia glauca, Lab. Nov. Hott. i. 
15. /. 01. {Gunn, 300, 1198.) 
Ear. Abundant on the skirts of damp forests, etc. — (PI. Oct.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : Victoria, Mueller. (Introduced into England.) 
A large shrub or small tree, 5-15 feet high, with slender, spreading branches, and puberulous branchlets, vary- 
ing a good deal in habit. — Leaves exceedingly variable in size and figure, -§— li inch long, i— \ inch broad, linear, 
linear-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, ac nl muero, glaucous below, with many 
parallel nerves. Spites axillary, very short, nodding, two- to five-flowered. Mowers minute, often unisexual. 
broad, blunt. Drupe oblong, rather fleshy. 
•I. Monotoca empetrifolia (Br. Prodr. 547) j fruticulus, caule prostrato ramoso, ramis adscenden- 
tibus, foliis divaricatis reflexisve ovali-oblongis mucronatis valde coriaceis convexis marginibus recurvis 
subtus glaucis, spicia axillaribus nutantibus 2-3-floris, bracteis persistentibus, floribus hermaphroditis. — 
DC. Prodr. v,i. 756. (6mm, 715 et 814.) 
II ab. Not uncommon on the loftier mountains, elev. 3-5000 feet, as on Mount Wellington and at 
v. v.) 
email species, 12-18 inches high, with prostrate, woody stem, and short, ascending branches, 4-8 inches 
the branchlets prfbescent.— Leaves patent or deflexed, small, short, very convex, deep green, shining, I inch 
Linear-oblong, with a rigid, pungent mucro, glaucous below, nerveless or with three to five stout nerves, 
short, nodding, two- or three-flowered. Bracts persistent. Flowers rather larger than in M. lineata. Drupes 
ose of if. lineata. 
Gen. VIII. ACROTMCHE, Br. 
Calyx 2-bracteatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbi lobis apice barba deflexa. Discus cyathiformis, 
