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Tke plant has the habit of Pentachondra, and, pending the discovery of its 

 fruit, was placed in that genus, a matter that was set a rest in 1891 by T. B. 

 Moore. 



9. ACROTRICHE. 



Corolla-tube short, but generally exceeding the calyx. Lobes spreading, with a 

 tuft of hairs towards the end, and scales or tufts of hairs closing the mouth of 

 the tube . Filaments short, inserted at the top of the tube. Anthers short, 

 oblong. Ovary 2-10-celled. Fruit a drupe, with a thin fleshy mesocarp, the 

 divisions of the endocarp are not quite as consolidated as in Leucopogon. 



A small genus, of purely Australian distribution, with a fairly distinct, 

 , though not definable, character. 



A. SBERULATA, JR. Br. A small, prostrate or diffuse, much-spreading shrub. 

 Leaves shortly stalked, spreading, linear-lanceolate, tapering into a fine pungent 

 point, flat or convex, j-f inch long, usually 3-ribbed, and irregularly ciliate.. 

 Flowers green, in small, dense, axillary spikes or heads, developing on the 

 previous year's growth. Bracts very small. Bracteoles but little larger. Sepals- 

 blunt, rather more than 1 line long. Corolla-tube about 2 lines long. Lobes, 

 about half as long, with a small but very conspicuous tuft of hairs near the 

 point, and a hairy scale at the junction with the tube. Ovary 5 or 6-celled, 

 prominently ribbed. Fruit globular, nearly 2 lines diameter. Styphelia 

 serrulata, F. v. M., including A. patula, Hook. 



Common on dry hills ; also in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. 

 Fl. spring and summer. 



10. MOlSrOTOCA. 



Corolla-tube small, but usually exceeding the calyx. Lobes spreading, glabrous. 

 Filaments short, inserted into the top of the tube. Ovary 1 or rarely 2-oelled. 

 Fruit a small fleshy drupe. 



Purely Australian. The genus has no very distinctive character beyond the 

 unreliable unilocular condition of the ovary in most species, but is very distinct 

 in habit. The Tasmanian species are all variable, and their lines of demarkation 

 not distinct. 



Plant erect. Flower 5-merous. 

 Leaves flat or nearly so. 



Flowers mostly in conspicuous racemes'. . . ... I. M . elliptica. 



Flowers mostly in small axillary spikes... ... 2. M.lineata. 



Leaves distinctly convex. 



Flowers mostly in small spikes. Corolla-lobes 



very spreading ... ... ... ... ... 2. M. lineata. 



Flowers mostly in small, almost sessile, 



clusters. Corolla-lobes slightly spreading ... 3. M. scoparia. 

 Plant decumbent or prostrate. Leaves convex. 



Flowers 4-merous ... ... ... ... ... 4. M. empetrifolia. 



1. M. ELLIPTICA, S. Br. A tall erect shrub or small tree. Leaves broadly or 

 narrowly oblong, flat or slightly convex, many-nerved, pale beneath, mostly \-\ 

 inch long, mostly with a pungent point. Flowers few or many together, in 

 small but conspicuous terminal and axillary racemes. Bracts soon falling. 

 Bracteoles very small, and embracing the base of the calyx. Sepals about ^ line 

 long, broad. Corolla-tube campanulate, rather more than 1 line long. Lobes 

 rather shorter than the tube, recurved. Fruit 1^-2 lines diameter, tityphelia 

 elliptica, F. v. M. 



A coast plant, principally in the north. It occurs also along the Eastern Coast- 

 of Australia. Fl. Sept. 



