LXXI. tePACRlbSifi. 9^5 



Order LXXI. EPACRIDEiE. 



Calyx of 5 rarely 4 distinct sepals, much imbricate in the bud. Corolla 

 regular, with a cylindrical, urceolate or oampanulate tube, and 6 rarely 4 lobes, 

 valvate or variously imbricate in the bud, more or less spreading or rarely 

 cohering in a calyptra, or rarely the whole corolla separating into distinct petals. 

 Stamens as many as eoroUa-lobes or rarely fewer, hypogynous, and free or more 

 or less adnate to (inserted in) the corolla-tube ; anthers versatile or rarely adnate, 

 1-celled (more or less perfectly 2-celled before opening), opening by a single 

 longitudinal slit in 2 valves, leaving no longitudinal dissepiment or only a thin 

 and slightly prominent one. Hypogynous disk annular or cup-shaped, entire, 

 5-lobed or consisting of 5 distinct scales, rarely dificient. Ovary superior, with 

 5 or sometimes fewer, rarely 6 to 10 cells ; ovules solitary in each cell and 

 pendulous, or several in each cell, the placenta proceeding from the axis 

 immediately under the attachment of the style. Style simple and undivided, 

 terminal in the uniovulate genera ; inserted in a central, tubular depression of 

 the ovary so as to be lateral (with reference to the carpels) or almost basal in 

 the pluriovulate genera ; stigma terminal, small, capitate or. peltate, and some- 

 times slightly lobed. Fruit indehiscent, and more or less drupaceous in the 

 uniovulate genera, capsular, and loculicidally -dehiscent in the pluriovulate ones. 

 Seeds with a thin, rarely almost crustaceous testa ; embryo straight, much 

 shorter than the albumen, terete or nearly so, the radicle next the hilum. — 

 Shrubs or rarely trees. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, often crowded 

 or imbricate, rigid, entire or scarcely denticulate, with several longitudinal, 

 simple or forked nerves, sometimes prominent underneath, sometimes very fine 

 and numerous or very obscure. Flowers axillary or terminal, either solitary and 

 terminating peduncles more or less covered with imbricately scale-like or leaf- 

 like bracts, or in spikes or racemes, each flower between 2 bracteoles in the 

 axil of a subtending bract, the common peduncle usually ending in a small 

 rudimentary flower with its subtending bract, the peduncles or spikes solitary 

 or rarely several in a terminal panicle. Sepals usually finely marked with 

 parallel or diverging veins. Corolla white or of various shades of red, rarely 

 blue, green or yellowish. 



The Order is almost confined to Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and the Antarctic 

 Islands, a few species spread over the islands of the Pacific and the Indian Archipelago, and a 

 single one representing it in the mountains of extratropical South America. 



Tribe I. StyplielieeB. — Ovules solitary in each cell of the ovary, pendulous from the 

 summit of the cavity. Style terminal. Fruit indehiscent, usually drupaceous. 



Anthers exserted, free. (Corolla-lobes revolute so as completely to expose 

 the erect summits of the filaments and the anthers). Filaments glabrous. 



Corolla-tube long or slender. Fruit a 5-celled drupe 1. Sttphblia. 



Anthers wholly or partially enclosed in the corolla-tube or in the erect base 

 of the lobes, or rarely recurved with the lobes. 

 Corolla-tube short, with 5 glandular scales inside below tht middle . . 2. Mbliohkus. 

 Corolla-tube without scales or hairy tufts lelow the middle, the lobes 

 spreading at least at the end. Filaments terete or nearly so. 

 Corolla-lobes more or less imbricate in the bud, glabrous, the throat 



closed with reflexed hairs or scales 4. Bbaohtloma. 



Corolla-lobes valvate in the bud, glabrous. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical or urceolate. 

 Drupe with a several-celled nucleus, the mesooarp moderately 

 pulpy. Flowers in spikes or racemes, the bracts and bracteoles 



distinct . S. Lissanthe. 



Drupe with 10 more or less separable pyrenes. Flowers in spikes 



or clusters, the. bracts and bracteoles distinct 3. Tkochocarpa. 



Corolla-tube short and oampanulate. Flowers very small. Stamens 



and corolla-lobes 4-Or 5. Ovary 1 or 2-celled 8. Monotoca. 



Corolla-lobes valvate, with a reflexed beard at the tip, and reflexed 

 hairs along the throat 7. Aokotriohe. 



