Fpacridete.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 257 
Distrib. Australian Alps, Mueller. 
A rigid, erect bush, 6 inches to 3 feet high, with few slender branches, uniformly covered with short, broad 
leaves, and numerous axillary sessile flowers. BrancMets pubescent or hairy. Emm broadlj Ovate-conlatc. acu- 
minate, pungent, bilobed at the base, with a short petiole, quite entire. Flowers about as long as ;« 
rolla broadly campanulate, white.— Plate LXXYIII. B. Fig. 1, flower ; 2, corolla, laid open ; 3, anther ; 4, ovary 
and hypogynous glands : — all magnified. 
§ 2. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, pungent. Tube of the corolla more than twice as long as the calyx. 
2. Epacris impressa (Lab. Fl. Nov. Holl. i. 43. t. 58) ; caulibus erectis, foliis ovatis laneeolatisve 
attenuato-acuminatis glaberrimis breve petiolatis, floribus secus ramulos spicatis, sepalis acutis tubo corolla' 
\-\ brevioribus. (Gwm, 142, 522 in part, 857.) 
Yar. a; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis lanceolatis sessilibus. — E. impressa, Br. Prodr. 551 
Aust. t. 4; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1691; Hook. Bot. Mag. 3407; DC. Prodr. vii. 762. 
Yar. /?. campanulata; foliis ovatis acuminatis subcordatis, corolla calycc duplo v. triplo longiorc— 
E. campanulata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1925 et 1931 ; DC. Prodr. I. c. 
Yar. 7. variabilis; foliis ovatis acuminatis, corolla calyce 4-plo longiorc— E. variabilis. /. 
t. 1816; DC. Prodr. I.e. 
Var. o\ niveaj ramulis velutinis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis marginibus scaberulis.— K. ni\. 
1. c. E. nivalis, Grah. in Jameson's Joum. 1833. 184 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1821 ; Book Bot, 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1531. 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, ascending to 2000 feet, and often covering I 
land.— (Fl. July-Oct.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, from Port Jackson to Port Lincoln. (Cultivated in England.) 
Too common a plant to require a detailed description, and too beautiful to be overlooked by the ] 
observer. It is very variable in stature, colour of flowers, size, form, and direction of its haws.— A slender shrub, 
generally sending up several erect leafy branches, a foot or so high, from a short woody stem, and covered with 
beautiful white or red tubular axillary flowers. Branches generally pubescent or hirsute. Leaves f-* inch long, 
elliptical or ovate or lanceolate, acuminate and pungent, shortly petioled or sessile, glabrous or slightly scabrid at 
the margins, even or nerved below, more or less concave or plane. Flowers half an inch long, generally pendulous 
3. Epacris cerseflora (Graham in Jameson's Joum. June, 1832) ; erecta, virgata, ramulis tomen- 
tosis, foliis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis pungentibus patentibus margine scaberuhs, flonbus secus ramu- 
los spicatis secundis, sepalis ovatis acuminatis apice attenuato pungente.— JK»*. Bot. Mag. t. 3243 DC. 
Prodr. vii. 762. An E. impressa (/3. parviilora), Lindl. Bot. Beg. 1839. 1. 19? {Gunn, 1203.) An 
species distincta ? 
Hab. Common, often growing with R impressa, Lawrence, Gunn, etc.— (Fl. Oct.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, Victoria, Mueller. (Introduced into England.) 
I very much doubt if this is specifically distinct from W. ''j'.Vu 
growing along with that plant at Hobarton, and flowering at the sami tim< , w eri 
its narrow leaves, more slender habit, more acute sepals, and shortei waxy-w nti 1 n< > " ' 
from his valuable notes, that he considers it somewhat doubtful, and I have many specimens of L. rmpressa that pre- 
sent one or other character of F. cereefiora. 
4. Epacris nucifolia (Br. Prodr. 550); tatkmlo. hamilis rigidus, ramis abbreviatis, ramulis gla- 
bris, foliis (parvis) patulis brevissime petiolatis eUiptico-ovatis lanoeolatisve acuminata pungenhbus mar- 
