Epacridea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
subsessilia. Squamulm 5 hypogynse. Ovarium 5-loculare, 5-ovulatura. Bacca 5-pyrena. — Fruticuli pafiri, 
montani ; foliis sparsis ; floribus terminalibus, erectis, albis. 
Small plants, generally found crawling over bare ground or rocks, natives of the alpine regions of Tasmania. 
Victoria, and New Zealand.— Stems generally prostrate. Leaves petiolate, scattered or imbricating. 
for the size of the plant, terminal, solitary (except in P. verticillata), erect, white, the calyx with four or inor. 
bracts, and the lobes of the corolla densely villous. Ovary five-celled. Fruit a berry, with live nuts. (Name from 
iT€VT(,Jive, and x»v8pos, a grain.) 
1. Pentachondra involucrata (Br. Prodr. 549); ramis elongatis prostratis tomentosis, foliis lan- 
ceolatis elliptico-lanceolatisve acutis concavis marginibus molliter ciliatis subtus multinerviis, ealycibus 
ciliatis 8-bracteatis corollas tubo multoties brevioribus, corollas lobis elongatis dense villous, staiuinibus ex- 
sertis.— DC. Prodr. vii. 759. [Gunn, 301.) 
Hab. Summit of Mount Wellington.— (Fl. March-May.) {v. v.) 
Brown describes his plant as having the stem erect, but those of my specimens are always ptottl 
foot or more long, with ascending branches, stout, villous or pubescent, leave* Imbricated. .\-i inch Ion-, ellip- 
tical or lanceolate, acute, with long soft cilia on the margins, striated with many nerves. hhnn-rs large, about as 
long as the leaves, with small ciliated calyces, surrounded by eight bracts. Corolla with long, very villous lobes. 
and exserted stamens. 
2. Pentachondra ericaefolia (Hook. ffl. in Lond. Journ. Bot, vi. 271) ; caul.- gneffi prostrate ,lif- 
fuso ramoso, ramulis ascendentibus apice tomentosis, foliis erectis imbricatis lincaribiis Imcan-lanceo a is\. 
apice incrassato obtuso supra concavis subtus obtuse carinatis bed marginibuaque < 
corolla? tubo intus et extus piloso, limbi lobis dense villosis, statmnibus inclusis. (Gunn, 1 L93. I IM. 
LXXVII. A.) 
Hab. Abundant in the alpine districts between Marlborough and Lake St. Clair, but found nowlmr. 
else, Gu7m.—{¥\. Jan.) 
A prostrate, Heath-like, often densely-matted shrub, with rather slender prost rat. >t. m> a - bug 1 ran. h< - 
densely covered with short, tomentose, leafy branchlets. Leaves very small, ereet, imbn. ating, 1 m< h 1 >..g, hm-ai 
lanceolate, with a thickened blunt point, concave above, bluntly keeled at the back and fanowed at the ndes, 
ciliated. Flowers sessile amongst the leaves at the ends of the short branches, white, much smaller than m P. w- 
volucrata Segals blunt ciliated, half as short as the tube of the corolla, which is pubescent, with somewhat .1. - 
flexed hairs both internally and externally. Lobes of the corolla very- densely villous. Stamen* ineluded. Hypo- 
gynous scales long.-PlATE LXXVII.^. Fig. 1 and 2, front and back view of leaves; 3, flower; 4, corolla, laid 
open; 5 and 6, back and front views of stamen; 7, ovary; 8, hypogynous glands -.-all magnified. 
3. Pentachondra pumila (Br. Prodr. 549); humilis, caule prostrato ramosissimo, ramulis com- 
pacts glabris, foliis parvis (l-uncialibus) imbricatis coriaceis nitidis elliptic* api« im.t: mto obtusis gla- 
berrimis concavis subtus 3-7-nerviis, floribus majusculis, tubo corolla glabernmo elongato ^^*» 
longiore, limbi lobis brevibus dense barbatis, staminibus inclusi 
759; Fl. N. Zeal. i. 166. Epacris pumila, Font. Prodr. 70. (< 
Hab. Summits of all the mountains above 3-4000 feet high. 
Distrib. Mount Latrobe, Victoria, Mueller. Common on tl 
A smaller species than any of the foregoing, forming deep-green n 
ascending, 3-6 inches long. Leaves \ inch long, erect, imbricating, sh 
brous, three- to five-nerved on the back, elliptic or oblong ( 
plant, almost twice as long as the leaves. Calyx very short. 
lobes. Stamens included. Fruit bright-red, as large as a p 
bacca magna rubra.— DC. Prodr. 
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