THE TASMANIAN FLOEA. Ill 



slightly spreading tips. Fruit about ^ inch diameter, fleshy, with a dense bony 

 endocarp. Styphelia humifusa, T. v. M. 



Very common, mostly in dry situations. Throughout extra- tropical Australia. 

 Fl. Sept.-Mar. 



2. A. PiNiroLiUM, Benth. Erect or spreading, much-branched, usually 1-2 feet 

 hig'h. Leaves very narrow, linear, crowded on the branches, ^-1 inch long, 

 ;acutely pointed, with revolute margins, usually ciliate on the margin, and more 

 ■or less scabrous, pubescent on the upper surface. Flowers solitary, axillary, 

 nearly sessile, usually few together at the base of the branchlets. Bracts about 

 -6, broad, gradually enlarging to the broad blunt bracteoles. Sepals similar to 

 the bracteoles in character, but rather narrower and longer, about j inch long. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical, red and green, slightly hairy within. Lobes linear- 

 lanceolate, spreading, about 3 lines long, with a small tuft of hairs towards the 

 tip. Fruit thinly fleshy mesocarp and a hard bony endocarp. Styphelia 

 pinifulia, F. v. M. 



In many parts on the north-eastern and southern parts, on or near the coast. 

 It occurs also in New South Wales and Victoria, Fl. Sept.-April. 



3. PENTAOHONDRA. 



Corolla-tube short, cylindrical. Lobes recurved or revolute, bearded inside. 

 Filaments inserted into the top of the tube. Ovary 6-celled. Fruit berry-like, 

 the hardened walls of the ovary cells free from one another, forming usually 5 

 free pyrenes. 



A genus containing but three species : two are confined to Tasmania ; the other 

 occurs in Victoria and New Zealand. The inflorescence and habit are closely 

 allied to Styphelia, and the fruit to Trochocarpa. Leucopogon milligani was till 

 lately referred to this genus, pending the discovery of fruit. 



Prostrate, densely matted. Leaves and flowers about 



1 J line long ... ... ... ... ... ... 2. P- pumila. 



Ascending. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2 lines long. 



Flowers about 2 lines long ... ... ... ... 3. P. ericmfolia. 



Ascending or sub-erect. Leaves broad to lanceolate, 



j-| inch long. Flowers about 4 lines long ... 1. P . involucrata. 



1. P. iNVOLaCRATA, R. Br. A small prostrate or sub-erect shrub, mostly 

 12-18 inches in growth. Leaves broadly elliptical to lanceolate, bluntly pointed, 

 many-ribbed, villous on the margin, j-| inch long. Flowers solitary, axillary, 

 shortly stalked, usually 2 or 8 together towards the end of the branchlets. 

 Bracts several, small, the one below that subtending the flower having a 

 rudiment of a flower in its axil. Bracteoles about f line long, broad, ciliate on 

 the margin like the bracts and sepals. Sepals 1 line long. Corolla-tube short. 

 Lobes about 4 lints long, densely bearded, and revolute. Trochocarpa involucrata, 

 F. V. M. 



Mount Wellington, Whale Head, Swanport, Schouten Island. Fi. Jan.-Feb. 



2. P. PUMILA, R. Br. A small prostrate shrub, more or less matted and 

 spreading. Leaves ovate, concave, 3 or 5-ribbed, bluntly pointed, and tapering 

 below into a short stalk, green beneath, mostly about 1 line long. Flowers very 

 shortly stalked, solitary, and terminal on short branchlets. Bracts many, very 

 small, orbicular, the upper one with a minute rudiment in its axil. Bracteoles 

 about half as long as the calyx. Sepals about | line long. Corolla-tube about 2 

 lines long. Lobes hardly 1 line long, recurved, and densely bearded. Filaments 

 very short. Anthers barely protrading from the tube. Fruit red, oblong, 2-3 lines 

 long. The pyrenes quite free from one another. Trochocarpa pumila, F. v. M. 



Very common on mountain summits. It occurs also in Victoria, New South 

 Wales, and New Zealand. Fl. Nov.-Dec. 



