266 FLORA OP TASMANIA. [Epacridea. 
Hab. Arthur's Lakes, and summits of the Western and other Mountains, Lawrence, Gunn.—^L Jan.) 
Very similar to Cystanthe sprengelioides, but may be distinguished at once by the narrower suberect leaves and 
much smaller flowers, which form terminal capitula about \ inch long. Stems 2 feet high. Branch*:* annulate, 
Leaves Hr incn lon g> witn membranous margins towards the base. Mowers white. Calyx with three appressed 
imbricating bracts at the base. Sepals broadly ovate, acute, as long as the corolla. Anthers long. ITypogynous 
scales longer than the ovary, rather membranous, deeply cut into two subulate laciniae. — Plate LXXXII. Fig. 1, 
leaf; 2, flower and bracts; 3, corolla; 4, bracts and flower, with corolla fallen away; 5, base of corolla, pistils, 
and stamens; 6, stamen and hypogynous glands; 7, pistil and scales; 8, transverse, and 9, vertical section of 
ovary -.-all magnified. 
2. Pilitis Milligani (Hook, fil.) ; fruticulus erectus ramosus, ramis nudis, ramulis apiee foliosis, 
foliis (uncialibus) late subulato-lanceolatis erecto-patentibus, capitulis foliis irnmersis, filamentis elongates, 
squamulis hypogynis obovatis emarginatis. {Gunn, 2050.) (Tab. LXXXffl.) 
Hab. Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, elev. 3000 feet, Milligan.—(Fl Jan.) 
A very distinct species, having slender, naked branches, bearing at their apices leaves very like those of Richea 
seoparia, and having the flowers twice as large as those of P. acerosa, sessile amongst the leaves, and filaments half 
an inch long. — Plate LXXXIII. Pig. 1, portion of leaf; 2, bud; 3, corolla; 4, flower, with corolla removed; 5, 
base of corolla, scales, stamens, and pistil; 6, pistil and scales; 7, transverse, and 8, vertical section of ovary: — all 
tnagnified. 
Gen. XVII. RICHEA, Jr. 
Calyx brevis, ebracteatus, 5-lobus v. 5-partitus. Corolla clausa, calyptrseformis, transversim dehis- 
cens, basi truncata persistente. Stamina hypogyna, persistentia. 8q a ■ 5, hypogynse. Ovarium 
5-loculare; ovulis placentis e apice loculi pendulis affixis. — Frutices; ramis annulatis, lunge hikI'ia, apice 
foliosis ; foliis elongatis, rigide coriaceis, basi imbricatis, va$ ho apice pun- 
gente, marginibus scaberulis ; floribus sessililm pedicellatiwe, m spicam v. racemum simplicem v. composi- 
tum dispositis ; pedicellis basi bracteatis. 
One of the most remarkable genera of the Order, from the singular appearance of some of the species, and 
especially of the R. pandanifolia and R. dracophylla ; it is very closely allied to the three preceding genera, and 
especially to Pilitis and Cystanthe, from both of which it differs in the paniculate or spicate inflorescence, and mem- 
branous, comparatively much smaller, ebracteate calyx, and from Cystanthe further, in the presence of hypogynous 
glands. The corolla, which is calyptrate, is sometimes minutely five-lobed at the apex. All the species are Tas- 
manian, and only one of them is found on the mountains of the Australian continent ; they are represented in New 
Zealand and New Caledonia by the genus Dracophyllum, of which one peculiar species is found in New South Wales, 
and which differs only in the corolla being five-lobed. (Named in honour of M. Riche, one of the Naturalists in 
the voyage of D'Entrecasteaux, in search of La Peyrouse.) 
1. Richea pandanifolia (Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. i. 50, in nota) ; subarborea, trunco simplici gra- 
cili, foliis longissimis flexuosis ensiformibus margine denticulatis, paniculis lateralibus glabris peduncu- 
latis densifloris ovatis ramosis, pedunculo basi bracteis equitantibus chartaceis lanceolatis appressis tecto, flo- 
ribus parvis pedicellatis, calycibus 5-lobis obtusis, filamentis brevibus. (Gunn, 1215.) (Tab. LXXXIV. 
dLXXXV.) ' K 
Hab. Dense mountain forests in the interior, southern, and western parts of the Colony, as French- 
man's Cap, Peak of Teneriffe, Port Davy, and Lake St. Clair, Backhouse, Gunn.— (Fl. Jan.) 
This presents a more striking appearance than any other Tasmanian plant, its long, naked, slender, annulate 
steins attauung a height of 36 feet, and bearing one or several huge crowns of long waving leaves, often rising 
