Styphelia.] LXXI, EPACEIDEJE. 927 



Hypogynous scales more or less cohering in a truncate or shortly lobed cup. — 

 R. Br. Prod. 587 ; DC. Prod. vii. 785 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1297 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 

 426 ; S. glaucescens, Sieb. PI. Exs. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



2. S. viridis (flowers green), Andr. Bot. Bep. t. 812 ; Benth. Fl. Avstr. iv. 

 148. An erect shrub, with spreading branches, quite glabrous or with a minute 

 scarcely perceptible down. Leaves oblong lanceolate or obovate-oblong, abruptly 

 narrowed into a short rigid point, flat or slightly convex, under lin. long. 

 Flowers green, solitary in the axils, nearly sessile. Braoteoles broad and obtuse, 

 under 2 lines long. Sepals almost acute, about fin. Corolla-tube nearly fin. 

 long in the normal form, with 5 dense tufts of hairs inside above the base. 

 Hypogynous scales broad, obtuse, free or slightly cohering. — DO. Prod. vii. 735 ; 

 S'. viridiflora, R. Br. Prod. 537 ; Sweet, Fl. Austr. t. 50. 



Hab. : Southern localities. 



Var. breviflora. Leaves narrower. Sepals more obtuse, about 4 lines long. Corolla-tube 

 about Jin. long. Hab.: Stanthorpe. 



2. MELICHRUS, R. Br. 



(Flower-glands honey-coloured). 



Corolla-tube short arid broad, with 5 densely glandular scales inside alter- 

 nating with the stamens ; lobes longer than the tube, valvate in the bud, bearded 

 or glabrous inside, spreading. Stamens inserted in the tube ; filaments exceed- 

 ingly short ; anthers oblong, 1-celled. Hypogynous disk short, truncate. Ovary 

 5-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell ; style very short or reduced to a small cone ; 

 stigma terminal, small. Fruit a drupe, with a dry or slightly pulpy mesocarp 

 and a hard, bony endocarp, with 5 cells and seeds or, fewer by abortion. Leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate. Flowers solitary in the axils, sessile, surrounded by several 

 bracts, of which the 2 innermost are enlarged, and, as well as the still larger 

 braoteoles, embrace the base of the calyx. 



The genus is limited to Eastern Australia. It is allied to AHroloma, and to Leucopogon, 

 distinguished from the former by the shape of the corolla, from the latter by its larger flowers 

 and more developed bracts, from both by the glandular-scales inside the corolla-tube. — Benth. 



Leaves ciliate, sprinkled with long hairs. Calyx (when open) broadly oam- 

 panulate. Corolla shorter than the calyx, the tube very short . . . . . 1. M. rotatus. 



Leaves without long hairs. Calyx ovoid. Corolla exceeding the calyx, the 

 tube nearly as long as the lobes 2. ^/. urceolatui. 



1. mi. rotatus (wheel-shaped flowers), \R. Br. Prod. 539 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 162. A Iqw, procumbent shrub, with short, ascending branches. Leaves 

 crowded, sessile, lanceolate, tapering into a long and fine but not pungent point, 

 flat, ciliate with long, soft hairs, and hairy on both sides or at length glabrous 

 and shining above, f to f or sometimes almost lin. long. Braoteoles about 2 

 lines long. Calyx ovoid in bud, but broadly campanulate when the flower is 

 expanded, softly pubescent, the sepals ovate, acute, ciliate, about 3 lines long. 

 Corolla scarcely so long as the calyx, the tube exceedingly short, with 5 large 

 scales densely covered with prominent glands, alternating with the stamens 

 inside ; lobes broadly lanceolate, glabrous except a few long hairs at the tip, 

 expanded into a rotate limb when the flower is open. Hypogynous disk very 

 short, thick, and fleshy. — DC. Prod. vii. 740 ; Ventenatia procumbens, Cav. Ic. iv. 

 28 t. 849 f. 1 (partly) ; Styphelia procumbens, Pers. Syn. i, 174 ; Styphelia 

 rotata, P. v. M. Fragm. vi. 88. 



Hab.: Southern Igcalities, 



