106 Descriptive Characters of 
somewhat rigid, channelled-linear, acute mucronulate, gla- 
brous; petioles clasping, scarious, woolly fringed; flowerheads 
solitary, almost sessile; scales of the involucre glabrous, 
somewhat red, at the base green, the outer ones ovate, inner 
ones narrow-lanceolate, not radiating; pappus of the sterile 
flower-heads scabrous, very slightly thickened at the apex. 
On gravelly places near springs, or such as are subject to 
nundations in the Munyang Mountains, (5000 to 6000 feet.) 
A small tufted herb, somewhat resembling the Raoulia 
tenuicaulis. The fertile flowers are yet unknown. 
EPACRIDEAE. 
21. Decaspora Clarkei. 
Stems short, diffused; branchlets slightly downy; leaves 
thinly coriaceous, flat, oblong-lanceolate, acutish, three or 
five-nerved, without a mucro, very much longer than the 
petiole, in front scabrous; spikes few-flowered, corymbose, 
as long as or longer than the leaves; faux of the large corolla 
bearded. 
In shady ravines at Mount Wellington, half buried in 
decaying leaves; very rare. 
This elegant little shrub bears the name of Capt. Andrew 
Clarke, the worthy President of the Philosophical Society, 
to whom the author is under many-fold great obligation, for 
promoting his researches. 
The four other species, are endemic Tasmanian ones. The 
large bleuish berries of this are eatable. 
22. Leucopogon Maccraer. 
(Sect. Brachystachys.) 
Tall, much branched ; branchlets very little spreading, firm, 
velvety ; leaves spreading, ovate, or from a round base lance- 
olate, stalked, flat, not mucronate, glabrous, above shining 
in front ciliolate; spikes terminal or below the apex, few- 
flowered, soon erect; calyx and bracteoles blunt, ciliolated ; 
tube of the corolla hardly longer than the calyx; anthers 
half exserted; style glabrous, enclosed; drupe globose, red, 
generally four-celled, nearly dry. 
In vallies on the sources of the Mitta Mitta, near Mount 
Hotham and Mount La Trobe, as also along the torrents of 
the Cobboras Mountains. (5—6,000 feet.) 
