264 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Epacridece. 
six- to eight-flowered racemes. Peduncles bracteate at the base ; pedicels with one bracteole at their insertion. 
CWyar-lobes about as long as the tube of the campanulate corolla.— Plate LXXX. A. Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, 
corolla, laid open ; 4, stamen ; 5, ovary ; 6, vertical section of ditto : — all magnified. 
4. Archeria minor (Hook, fil.) ; fruticulus glaberrimus fastigiatim ramosus, ramis ramulisque ro- 
bustis, foliis undique insertis suberectis petiolulatis late elliptico-ovatis obtusis supra subconcavis subtus 
carinatis valde coriaceis nitidis marginibus hevibus v. minutissime serrulatis, racemis terminalibus densi- 
floris erectis, floribus 6-8 parvis, bracteis floribusque ut in A. serpyllifolia sed multo minoribus, capsula 
parva apice profunde 5-loba. 
Hab. Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, 3filligan.— {F\. Dec.) 
Very similar in most respects to A. serpyllifolia, but smaller in all its parts, the leaves being about \ inch 
long, and the flowers rather shorter than the leaves. 
Gen. XIV. SPBENGELIA, Sm. 
Calyx subcoloratus, bracteis plurimis cinctus, 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, lobis angustis imberbibus. 
Stamina hypogyna, glabra. Antherm libera v. connatse, septo immarginato. Squama hypogynee 0. Cap- 
sula 5-valvis, placentis columnce centrali adnatis. — Eruticuli erecti ; ramis denudatis, vix annulatis ; foliis 
patulis, recurvis, basi ovatis, ramulos vaginantibus, dein subulato-acuminatis ; floribus sessilibus, r amnios 
brevimmo* terminaiUibus ; calyce sepalis corollam subaequantibus ; corolke pallide purpurascentis tubo bre- 
'■ixsiino, demum a basi h-fulo. 
This is a very southern genus of the Order, about four or five species being known, all natives of Tasmania 
and the southern coasts of Australia. — Small, glabrous shrubs, with short leaves, very broad at the base, and there 
sheathing the stem. Floicers sessile, on short lateral branchlets that are aggregated towards the ends of the 
branches. Sepals five, bracteate, coloured, rigid, about the length of the narrow lobes of the rotate corolla. Corolla- 
rotate, with narrow spreading lobes. Stamens hypogynous. Anthers free or connate. (Named in honour of Kurt 
Sprengel, an eminent German botanist.) 
1. Sprengelia incarnata (Smith, Act. Stockh. 1794. p. 260. t. 8) ; antheris connatis barbatis.— 
Br. Prodr. 555 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 768 ; Andr. Pot. Pep. t. 2; Cav. Ic. iv. t. 343. (Gunn, 155.) 
Hab. Common, especially in wet places, in hilly districts throughout the Island.— (Fl. Nov., Dec.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, from Port Jackson to Victoria, ascending the Alps to 5000 feet, 
Mueller. (Introduced into England.) 
A small, glabrous, squarrose bush, 1-5 feet high, with erect, naked, terete, woody stems, the branches covered 
with imbricating leaves, and terminated by ovate or conical heads of pale flesh-coloured flowers. Leaves i-| inch 
long, rigid, patent, recurved, gradually narrowed from an ovate sheathing base to a subulate acuminate point, very 
concave. Flowers exceedingly variable in size, $-\ inch long. Sepals pale, as long as the narrow lobes of the 
corolla. Stamen* with short filaments, and connate, villous or bearded anthers. 
2. Sprengelia propinqua (A. Cunn. in DC. Prodr. vii. 768) ; antheris liberis barbatis.— S. ma- 
crantha, Nob. in Pond. Journ. Pot. vi. 273. {Gunn, 1212.) 
Hab. In wet, peaty soil, Mount Wellington, A. Cunningham; Eecherche Bay and Loddon Plains, 
south-west of Lake St. Clair, Gunn.— (El. Dec, Jan.) 
\ery similar m habit and general appearance to S. incarnata, but smaller, and the leaves are usually rather 
broader and less pungent, and the flowers are white, i-i inch long, with free, bearded anthers.— De Candolle con- 
sulers xt as intermediate in all respects between S. incarnata and S. montana. I at one time thought it an extremely 
