EPACRIS NIVA‘LIS. 
SNOWY EPACRIS. 
oR DICOTy;EPONE mR, 
Natural division 
to which —— XV 
this Plant belongs. ; 
NATURAL ORDER, EPACRIDACEA, 
22 Artificial division PENTANDRIA , 
+ to which MON eer 
5 this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUs, 
No. 57. 
GENUS. Epacris. Smrrx. Caryx coloratus, multibracteatus, cg 
textura calycis. Coroxza tubulosa, limbo imberbi. SraMyys €Pipetala; 
theris supra medium peltatis. Squamuta 5 hypogyne. Cars©ta ate 
columne centrali adnatis. Brown. Prodromus Flore Noye Hollandiz. p. 
550. 
CALYCIFLORA, 
oF 
DECANDOLLE, 
SPECIES. Epacris nivatis. Loppices. Floribus Pendulis racemosis, 
foliis lanceolatis sessilibus attenuato-acuminatis subtus striatis, pedunculis ca. 
lyce bis brevioribus, corollis campanulatis basi retrial tub° calycem 
superante. Linpxey, in Botanical Register, folio 153 
CHARACTER OF THE Genus, Epacris. Sats coloured, fur- 
nished with many bracts, the bracts of the same texture 48 the calyx. 
Coroxta tubulose, limb without a beard. STaMENs &Pipetalous 5 
anthers, peltate above the middle. ScaLes 5, hypogynous: The cap- 
sules having the placente adnate to the central column, 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, Epacris NivaLis, AX evergreen 
shrub, from two to three feet high, branched; branches of @ brownish 
purple colour, with an arachnoid pubescence, most of the branches 
laden with snow-white pendulous flowers. Leaves alterDate, sessile, 
ovato-lanceolate, reflexed, spreading, very much acumjnate, smooth, 
green, striated on the under surface. Fiowers axillary, solitary, ped- 
icellate, secund, and drooping. Caryx 5-toothed, or of 5 Nearly dis- 
tinct sepals. _SrPaus and Bracrts, ovate, acute, white, with a little 
down along the margins. Coroxza as long as the leayes, Campant- 
late, limb of five spreading, or reflexed segments. SyaMENs 5, at- 
tached by the filaments to the corolla; anthers, without a®y spur, of 
other appendix, one-celled, Srvyxz one, a little longer th@0 the tube 
of the corolla. 
Poputar anp GeoerapHicat Notice. Few shrys are more 
en TO THE emcees eee 
1, Corolla laid open, showing 2, The pistil. 
