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TLOKA OF TASMANIA. [Epacridea. 
ginibus glabris scaberulisve, floribus axillaribus, corolla cylindracea sepalis ovatis acuminatis duplo v. triplo 
longiore.— DC. Prodr. vii. 761. {Gunn, 857 ?, 858.) E. reclinata, A. Cunn. MSS. ? 
Hab. Islands in Bass' Straits, Brown ; Hampshire Hills, Woolnorth, Rocky Cape, and Circular Head, 
Gunn.— (Fl. Dec, Jan.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, Mueller; Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham. (Introduced into 
England.) 
This again approaches very closely indeed to states of E. impressa, to which Gunn is inclined to refer some of 
his specimens; it however appears to differ in the low, more or less procumbent, straggling habit, the smaller, 
shorter leaves, not above i inch broad, in their ovate or elliptical-lanceolate form, and in the flowers not being so 
numerous, whence the branches do not look like flowering spikes. Sieber's no. 82 (in Herb. Hook.) does not ap- 
pear distinct from this, except in the longer tube of the corolla; and Allan Cunningham sends the same plant from 
Port Jackson, \mder the name of E. ruscifolia, Br. 
§ 3. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, not cordate at the base, decidedly pungent. Tube of corolla little if at all 
longer than the calyx. 
5. Epacris lanuginosa (Lab. Nov. Holl. i. p. 42. t. 57) ; fruticulus erectus, ramis robustis villosis, 
foliis erectis subimbricatis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis pungentibus glaberrimis nitidis marginibus scabe- 
rulis subtus convexis, floribus axillaribus sparsis v. in spicam foliosam densam ad apices ramulorum con- 
gests, calycibus acutis acuminatisve tubo corollas asquilongis v. brevioribus margine ciliato lanuginoso, sta- 
minibus inclusis, stylo et ovario hirsutis.--.5r. Prodr. 551 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 763. 
Var. a ; calycibus acutis longitudine tubi corollse, foliis latioribus, floribus in spicam densissime con- 
gest. {Gunn, 145.) 
Yar. j3 ; calycibus longe acuminatis tubo corollas brevioribus, Mis anguste lanceolatis, floribus laxius 
spicatis axillaribusve. {Gunn, 146 ?, 855.) 
Yar. 7 ; calycibus acuminatis corollas tubo brevioribus, foliis anguste lanceolatis, floribus subcapitatis. 
{Gunn, 146 et 1985.) 
Hab. Not uncommon in hilly districts in various parts of the Island. Yar. a. Campbelltown, Gunn ; 
Port Arthur, Macquarrie Harbour, A. Cunningham. Yar. $. Rocky Cape, Gunn.—(F\. Feb.) Yar. y. 
Hampshire Hills, Georgetown, Circular Head, Marlborough. — (FL Oct.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
A very \.r cially in the arrangement of the flowers, which are axillary, sometimes spi- 
Ottfl along the branehhts, and at others collected into dense, terminal, cylindrical, ovoid, or capitate heads. The 
leaves vary in breadth, and the sepals in breadth, in the length of their acuminate points, and comparative length 
to the tube of the corolla. — An erect, woody, rigid shrub, T-3 feet high, generally sparingly branched. Branches 
villous or pubescent. Leaves about A inch long, erect, imbricating, lanceolate, acuminate, with long, pungent 
points ; margins scaberulous. Flowers white, longer than the leaves. Calyx rather long ; sepals ciliated with woolly 
hairs. Corolla tubular. Stamens included. Style and ovary villous. 
6. Epacris mncronnlata (Br. Prodr. 552) ; ramis erectis strictis virgatis, ramulis puberulis, foliis 
brrvissime petiolatis curvatis erecto-patentibus lanceolatis ovato-lanceolatisve longe acuminatis pungentibus 
basi subcordatis valde concavis glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus ad apices ramulorum subcapitatis, calycibus 
subacutis margine minute cibatis lanatisve tubo campanulato corollas asquilongis, antheris exsertis, stylis 
ovaiiisque glabris.— DC. Prodr. vii. 764. {Gunn, 620.) 
Hab. Hobarton and New Norfolk, Gunn; Mount Wellington, Everett.— (Fl. Oct.) {v. v.) 
I have referred this plant to Brown's E. mucronulata, though the calyces are ciliated. In general habit and 
foliage it resembles E. , ery concave, and curving outwards from the base, which clasps 
