124 THE TASMANIA.N FLORA. 



slender stalks of usually 1-2 inclies in length. Bracts few, minute. Bracteoles 

 embracing the base of the calyx. Sepals broadly ovate, acute, ciliate, about H 

 line long. Corolla-tube about 1 inch long, cylindrical, but broadest towards the 

 centre, contracted at the throat, lobes short and broad. Capsule hirsute, about 3 

 lines long. 



Common on mountain-sides, principally in the west and south-west. 

 Fl. Nov.-April. 



14. SPEENGELIA. 



Corolla-tube very shoi-t or obsolete. Lobes 5, very spreading. Stamens 

 shorter than the corolla and inserted below the ovary. Anthers often cohering in 

 a ring round the style. Disk absent. Ovary 5-celled, with several ovules in 

 each. Placenta axile. Style inserted in a tubular depression in the ovary. Fruit 

 capsular. 



The genus is confined to Eastern Australian distribution, and consists of but 

 three species. Closely allied to the specifically more numerous Andersonia of 

 West Aastralia. 



S. INCARNATA, Sm. An erect or sub-erect, sparsely-branched shrub, often 

 flowering when a few inches high, at times attaining many feet Leaves broad, 

 and sheathing the stem at the base, tapering to a pungent apex, spreading or 

 recurved, many-nerved, ^-J inch long without the sheathing base. Flowers in a 

 terminal head formed of numerous few-flowered spikes intermixed with leafy 

 bracts. Sepals lanceolate, almost scarious, about .S lines long. Corolla usually 

 rather shorter than the calyx, pink or white, the tube very short or none. Lobes 

 lanceolate, spreading. Filaments slender. Anthers in the typical form densely 

 pubescent, and cohering in ring round the style. 



Very common. It occurs also in New South Wales, Victoria, and South 

 Australia. Fl. spring and summer. 



The pubescence of the anthers and their disposition to cohere is very 

 variable. The common mountain form has nearly always free glabrous 

 anthers, and was described as a distinct species as <S. montana. 

 S. propinqua was a form with free pubescent anthers. 



Var. distichophylla, 2-.3 inches high. Leaves 1 line, imbricate, in two 

 opposite rows. Flowers solitary. West Coast. 



15. RICHEA. 



Corolla more or less conical. The lobes connate or only their extreme points 

 free. The upper portion deciduous, the lower part remaining as a persistent ring. 

 Stamens free, inserted below the ovary. Ovary 5-celled, with several ovules in 

 each. Style inserted in a depression in the ovary. Fruit a capsule. Disk of free 

 scales or none. 



A genus containing only eight species, seven of which are confined to Tasmania ; 

 the other one, principally Tasmanian, occurs also in the Australian Alps. The 

 genus, as here understood, includes all allied species with calyptiiform corollas ; 

 the genera Cystanthe and Pilitis are suppressed. The leaves have the same 

 broad sheathing base as in Sprengelia, but leave annular scars when shed. 

 Flowers in small heads. Leafy bracts persistent. 

 Leaves more or less recurved. Disk none. 



Anthers splitting into 2 lobes above 2. R. procera. 



Anthers entire 1. B. sprengelioides. 



Leaves narrow, straight. Disk very distinct. 



Leaves about ^ inch long. Stamens 2 lines long .3. M. acerosa. 

 Leaves about 1 inch long. Stamens very long... 4. R. milligani. 



