1 10 THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



Corolla white, pink, or red, lobes slightly hairy or 



glabrous. 

 Leaves pale beneath. Fruit small, fleshy, 1-celled 10. Monotoca. 

 Leaves pale beneath. Fruit fleshy, pink or white, 



5-celled. Pyrenes combined ... ... ... 7. lAssanthe. 



Leaves green on both sides. Fruit large, fleshy, 



purple, 10-celled. Pyrenes separable ... ... 4. Trochocarpa. 



Tribe Epacrea. Ovary 5-celled, with numerous ovules. Style inserted in a 

 shallow or deep depression in the ovary. 



Leaves narrowed at the base or shortly stalked. 

 Flowers about 1 inch long, bright red. Plant 



climbing ... ... ... ... ... ... 13. Prionotes. 



Flowers \ inch long or under. 



Flower-stalk clothed with bracts ... ... 11. Epacris. 



Flower-stalk nearly bare when mature .. ... 12. Archeria. 



Leaves broad at base, sheathing the stem. 



Petals combined in a deciduons hood ... ... 15. Richea, 



Petals spreading. 



Petals nearly free, stiff ... ... ... ... 14. Sprengelia. 



Petals ureeolate. Leaves under \ inch or exceeding 



6 inches ... ... ... ... ... ... 16. Dracophyllum. 



1. STYPHELIA. 



Corolla-tube cylindrical. Lobes linear, bearded, and revolute. Stamens with 

 filiform filaments and linear exserted anthers. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit but 

 slightly fleshy. 



The genas is confined to Australia, and originally included all genera now in 

 the tribe Stypheliem. 



S. ADSCENDENS, R. Br. A decumbent, much-branched, and spreading shrub. 

 Leaves nearly sessile, ovate-lanceolate, with a sharp pungent point, ^-^ inch long, 

 margins minutely ciliate. Flowers solitary, axillary, on very short stalks clothed 

 with bracts, the 2 bracteoles broad, about 2 lines long. Sepals oblong, about 4 

 lines long. Corolla pale green or yellow, nearly 1 inch long, the upper part of 

 the throat and lobes densely hairy. Fruit ovoid, 5-ribbed, about 4 lines long. 



Common in dry heathy situations. It occurs also in Victoria, South Australia, 

 and New South Wales. Fl. Oct.-Jan. 



2. ASTEOLOMA. 



Corolla-tube elongated, cylindrical or nearly so. Lobes narrow, usually bearded, 

 only partially or not at all recurved. Stamens with short flattened filaments 

 inserted at the throat of the corolla, and oblong anthers attached much above 

 the middle. Ovary 5-celled. Style slender, elongated. Fruit somewhat fleshy or 

 dry. 



A purely Australian genus. 



Flowers red. Leaves lanceolate, pointed ... ... \. A. humifumim. 



Flowers mostly green. Leaves filiform ... ... 2. A. pini-folium. 



1. A. HDMIFUSUM, R. Br. A small, prostrate, much-branched shrub. Leaves 

 narrow, mostly lanceolate, with a hard sharp point, slightly ciliate on the 

 margin, 5 or 7-nerved, about \ inch long. Flowers solitary, axillary, nearly 

 sessile. Bracts very small. Bracteoles about 1 line long, very broad, but with a 

 short acute point. Sepals oblong, pointed, 2-3 lines long. Corolla- tube 

 cylindrical, bright crimson, about f inch long, with a ring of densely hairy scales 

 towards the base. Lobes about 2 lines long, densely hairy above, erect with 



