116 THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



normally axillary, but the leaf often lost while the bud is yet small. Sepals 

 about f line long, ciliate. Corolla-tube 2 lines long, narrower than in the last. 

 Lobes narrow, short, smooth or papillose-oiliate, with the usual tuft of long 

 hairs at the base reflected down the tube. Ussanthe daphnoides, Hook. 



Gordon River, Pittwater ; also throughout Eastern and Southern Australia. 

 Fl. Oct.-Dec. 



7. LISSANTHE. 



Flowers racemed or spiked. GoroUa-tube short. Lobes spreading, smooth. 

 Filaments short. Anthers hardly protruding. Ovary 5-celIed, with I ovule in 

 each. Fruit a fleshy drupe. 



A very small genus, confined to Eastern and Southern Australian distribution. 

 It is divided from Leucopogon merely by the absence of dense woolly pubescence 

 on the corolla-lobes. 



Leaves sharply pointed ... ... ... ... 1. L. strigosa. 



Leaves rounded at end ... ... ... ... 2. L. moniana. 



1. L. STEIGOSA, R. Br. A small, prostrate, ascending or sub-erect, much-branched 

 shrub, often not exceeding 6 inches, at others about 2 feet. Leaves shortly 

 stalked, linear-lanceolate, tapering into a fine and very pungent point, mostly \-^ 

 inch long. Flowers pink or white, small and numerous, in small axillary and 

 terminal racemes, each fiower subtended by a single bract and bearing two 

 small bracteoles at the base of the pedicel. Sepals, in all Tasmanian plants I 

 have examined, nearly orbicular, and not much exceeding -^ line. Corolla- 

 tube about \\ line long. Lobes about \ line long. Anthers protruding from 

 the mouth of the tube. Fruit fleshy, pink or white, about 2f lines diameter. 

 Styphelia strigosa, F. v. M. 



Very common, principally in dry pastures, &c. ; also in New South Wales, 

 Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland. Fl. Sept.-Jan. 



2. L. MONTANA, R. Br. An erect, much-branched shrub, usually 1-2 feet high 

 in Tasmanian plants. Leaves narrow-oblong, obtuse, flat, pale, and many -nerved 

 beneath, mostly \ inch long. Flowers in numerous small, dense, terminal 

 spikes, partially dioecious, the complete staminate flowers larger than those 

 developing perfect pistils, each flower subtended by a broad bract and enclosed 

 at the base by 2 broad bracteoles. Sepals broad, about \ line long. Corolla- 

 tube about as long as the calyx in the pistillate, and rather longer in the 

 staminate, flowers. Lobes about 1 line long. Stamens slightly protruding. 

 Fruit red or white, fleshy, about 2 lines diameter. Styphelia montana, F. v. M. 

 (partly). 



Common on the sammit of Mount Wellington. It occurs also in Victoria and 

 New South Wales. Fl. Dec-Jan. 



8. LEUCOPOGON. 



Jorolla-tube short, sometimes not exceeding the calyx. Lobes spreading, the 

 "(ipper surface more or less covered with a dense mass of white woolly hairs. 

 Filaments short, inserted into the top of the tube. Anthers enclosed in the 

 mouth of the tube or shortly exserted. Ovary mostly 5-celled, but varying from 

 1-10. Fruit a drupe, but the fleshy mesocarp often very thin. 



The genus, though large (containing more than a hundred species), is 

 restricted in its -distribution. Beyond a few species found in the Indian 

 Archipelago and New Zealand, with the corresponding portion of the Pacific, 

 the genus is Australian. 



Tall shrubs. Leaves mostly exceeeding ^ inch, 

 lanceolate or oblong. 

 Leaves |-1 inch. Fruit white, globular ... ... 2. L. richei. 



