Epacridea.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 261 
Hab. In wet soil, northern and southern shores of the Island : Recherche Bay, Dotation Jihtr, and 
Eocky Cape, Gunn.—(Fl Nov., Dec.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, from Port Jackson to Victoria. (Introduced into England.) 
A very elegant species, 6-24 inches high. Stems slender, erect, 1-2 feet high, v« ry sparingly branched ; the 
branches slender, erect. Leaves \— §• inch long, coriaceous, erect, subimbricate, lanceolate, with an . 
apex, obscurely three-nerved at the back. Flowers axillary, erect, horizontal or nodding, longer than tin- leaves. 
Bracts and sepals subacute, fringed with white down. Anthers included. Style and ovary quite glabrous.— Aus- 
tralian specimens are usually very much larger in all their parts than the Tasmanian, and have often broader haves, 
14. Epacris Franklinii (Hook, fil.) ; frutex erectus fastigiatim ramosus, ranmlU gnciKbui glabra, 
foliis erectis subimbricatis petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis glaberrimis dorso subcarinatis obscure ;l-iu iffas, 
floribus axillaribus, pedicellis elongatis laxe bracteatis, bracteis calycibusque subacutis glaberrimis post an- 
thesin subpatentibus, ovario styloque glaberrimis. (Gum, 1987.) (Tab. LXXIX. B.) 
Hab. Banks of the Franklin River, near Macquarrie Harbour, in annually inundated pli - 
(FL Jan.) 
A remarkably distinct and peculiar-looking species, 6 feet high, much and faatigiatety bnmu 
very crowded, covered with black bark. Leaves erect, imbricating, \ inch long, upon slender petioles, lanceolate. 
acuminate (not pungent), nerveless above, obscurely three-nerved below. Flower* axillary, solitary, on elongated 
curved pedicels 1-2 lines long, and loosely covered with short bracts, a character that abundantly distinguishes 
this species from all its preceding allies.— -Plate LXXIX. B. Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, corolla, laid open —<ii> 
magnified. 
15. Epacris corymbiflora (Hook, fil.); fruticulus robustus, caulc brevissimo craeso, rami- bnw- 
bus suberectis superne subcorymboso-fastigiatis, foliis erectis appressis imbricatis crassc enrianis m\ ati.- 
ovato-lanceolatisve acutis non pungentibus dorso subcarinatis marginibus integerrimis glaberrimis, floribus 
subcorymbosis (magnis) pedicellatis subterminalibus folio longioribus, bracteis pcdicello partis, bracteu 
calycinis sepalisque subacutis concavis minute ciliatis coriaceis, corollas tubo calycem requante, anthem 
subexsertis, ovario styloque glaberrimis. {Gnnn, 1988.) (Tab. LXXVIII. A.) 
Hab. White Hill Plains, near the Franklin River, Macquarrie Harbour, in poor, peaty soil, Gunn.— 
(Fl. Feb.) 
Of this most distinct species I have seen fruiting specimens only, with the corollas however attached, and it 
is at once distinguished from all its Tasmanian congeners by the large bracts and calyx, and mbcorymboae arrange- 
ment of its pedicelled flowers; its habit too is peculiar, as it is a small plant, with a very short, thick, woody stem. 
and several ascending, short branches, 4-8 inches long, fastigiately or somewhat corymbosely branched above, and 
clothed with more or less appressed imbricating leaves. Some of these characters are probably variable, for, though 
constant in Gunn's numerous specimens, it is to be recollected that all these are from one locality.— Leaves \ inch 
long, very thick and coriaceous, shining, somewhat concave, erect, appressed, ovate or ovate-laneeolate, acute, with 
an obscure keel, perfectly glabrous. Flowers pedicelled, the bracts on the pedicel small: those below the ralyx 
large, two-thirds the length of the sepals, blunt, and, as well as the subacute aspala, mhrat tj firing. 
corolla narrow, as long as the sepals. Capsule small, subcoriaceous— Plate LAW III.-/. Kg. L. flower j 2, 
corolla, laid open ; 3, stamen j 4, ovary, with hypogynous & lan(ls : ~~ aU ma 3 ni fi ed - 
16. Epacris petropbila (Hook, fil.); fruticulus depressus ramosissimus, ramulis pobefohs, foliis 
minimis laxe v. dense imbricatis erectis patulisve sessilibus crasse coriaceis planiusculis breviter oblongia 
ovatisve obtusis supra concavis subtus obtuse carinatis marginibus vix scaberulis, floribus (parvis) dioicis ? 
ad apices ramulorum dense congestis brevissime pedicellatis foliis longioribus, bracteis sepalisque minute 
ciliatis obtusis sordide albis, corollas late campanulatse tubo brevi calycem aequante, anthens subexsertis, 
