262 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Epacridea. 
ovario styloque glaberriinis.— E. microphylla, Nob. in Load. Journ. Bot. vi. 271, non Brown. (Gunn, 
1210.) 
Hab. Stony places on the summits of the Western Mountains, and at Arthur's Lakes, elev. 4000 feet, 
Gunn.—(l\ Feb.) 
Distrib. Munyang Mountains, Victoria, Mueller. 
A small, rigid, prostrate or depressed, very much branched, and very small-leaved species, resembling Backia 
Gunniana in some respects.— Stems stout, woody, clothed with black bark ; branchlets more slender, leafy. Leaves 
suberect, imbricating or patent, 1-1| line long, deep green, shining, ovate or oblong, sessile, quite entire, very 
thick and coriaceous, young ones minutely puberulous, broad at the base. Flowers collected in large, terminal, 
white capitula, small, but twice as large as the leaves. Bracts and calyx whitish, blunt. Corolla broadly campa- 
nulate. — A most distinct species. 
Gen. XII. PRIONOTES, Br. 
Calyx ebracteatus. Corolla tubulosa, fauce aperta, limbo imberbi. Stamina 5, hypogyna, subsequalia, 
tubo semiadhserentia ; antherse septo complete Squama 5 hypogynse. Ovarium 5-loculare; ovulis* ipla.- 
centis e apice loculi pendulis affixis. Capsula 5-valvis. — Fruticuli erecti v. pros/,: 
floribus axillaribus ; pedicellis elongatis, bracteatis. 
The curious plant belonging to this genus diifers from all others of the Order known, in having distinctly two- 
celled anthers, hypogynous filaments, which are more or less attached 
to the corolla. In these important particulars Prionotes presents the transition-form between Epacridece and Ericea, 
and (what is no less remarkable) a Fuegian species of this genus presents the only known American Epacrideous 
plant. The fact of the Tasmanian species of Perneitya (otherwise exclusively an American genus) having anthers 
without the characteristic awns of that genus, is in one respect a parallel anomaly. Prionotes is confined to Tas- 
mania as a genus, and differs from Epacris in the pedicelled flowers, which, if bracteate, do not have the bracts 
placed close under the calyx, in the bilocular anthers and hypogynous stamens. (Name from irpiovuxros, serrated.) 
1. Prionotes cerinthoides (Brown, Prodr. 552) ; frutex glaber prostratus, ramis gracilibus, ramulis 
hirtellis, foliis distichis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtuse serratis, pedicellis solitariis folio subasquilongis 
calyceque puberulis, bracteolis parvis appressis, sepalis brevibus late ovatis, corolla (magna) cylindracea gla- 
berrima, lobis parvis, capsulis hirtis oblongis superne ad medium 5-lobis. — DC. Prodr. vii. 766. Epacris 
cerinthoides, Lab. Nov. Soil. i. 43. t. 59. (Gunn, 1211.) 
Hab. Recherche Bay, Labillardiere ; sides of Mount Wellington, elev. 3000 feet, in moss; dense 
forests extending from Franklin to Gordon River and Macquarrie Harbour, Milligan, Gunn.— (El April.) 
A very beautiful plant, sometimes attaining 30 feet in height ; easily recognized by its somewhat distichous, 
oblong, blunt, serrated leaves, and large, solitary, pedicelled, pendulous, red flowers, with a very small calyx of 
broad, ovate sepals, and large, cylindrical corolla, upwards of half an inch long.— Stems very slender, seldom thicker 
than a quill. Branches long, slender, and interwoven, so as to present a dense screen of deep green foliage. 
Gen. XIII. ARCHERIA, Hoot fil. 
Calyx ebracteatus. Corolla cylindracea v. campanulata, limbo imberbi v. barbato. Stamina fauce 
corollse inserta ; autheris 1-locularibus. Discus hypogynus 5-lobus. Ovarium 5-loculare; ovulis ascenden- 
tibus, placentis basilaribus erectis insertis. Capsula 5 -locularis.— Fruticuli Tasmania?; foliis subdistichis v. 
undtque Insertis; floribus pedicellatis, axillaribus v . in racemos terminales disposilis ; pedicellis basi brac- 
genus, intermediate between Prionotes and Epacris; some species having the distichous foliage, 
