0?8 LXXI. EPACRIDEiE. [Melichi-vs. 



2. IKE. urceolatus (pitcher-shaped flowers), R. Br. Prod. 539 ; Bentli. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 162. An erect shrub of 2 to 3ffc. or rarely low and diffuse like JW. 

 rotatus. Leaves crowded or densely imbricate, or especially the floral ones 

 loosely spreading, lanceolate, rigid, tapering into a fine pungent point, glabrous 

 or rarely pubescent, from under ^in. to nearly 1 in. long. Bracteoles about In- 

 line long. Calyx ovoid, glabrous or pubescent, the sepals rigid, obtuse, nearly 

 3 lines long, often coloured. Corolla-tube broad, shorter than the calyx,' with 

 the same glandular scales inside as in M. rotatus ; lobes lanceolate, rather longer 

 than the tube and exceeding the calyx, recurved at the end but not rotate, bearded 

 or nearly glabrous inside. Hypogynous disk short, thin, truncate. — DC. Prod, 

 vii. 740; M. medius, M. eruhescens, and M. adpressus, A. Cunn. in DC. I.e.; 

 Styphelia urceolata, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 38. 

 Hab.: Southern localities. 



3. TROCHOCARPA, R. Br. 



(Cogwheel-shaped fruit.) 

 (Decaspora, B. Br.) 



Corolla-tube cylindrical or campanulate, glabrous or with reflexed hairs inside 

 at the top ; lobes usually shorter than the tube, recurved, glabrous or bearded 

 inside. Filaments inserted in the top of the tube, short, filiform ; anthers 

 attached at or near the top, partially included in the tube or recurved with the 

 lobes. Hypogynous disk truncate, lobed or separating into distinct scales. 

 Ovary 10-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell ; style rather thick, usually short ; 

 stigma small. Fruit a globular or depressed drupe, the mesocarp pulpy, the 

 endocarp separating or separable into 10 (or fewer by abortion) distinct pyrenes. 

 — Shrubs. Leaves usually petiolate, flat or convex. Flowers several together 

 in spikes, either terminal or in the axils of the previous year's leaves', or lateral 

 on the old wood, each flower sessile within the small subtending bract and two 

 bracteoles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



1. T. laurina (Laurel-like), R. Br. Prod. 548 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 166. 

 A tree of 20 to 30 or even 40ft., quite glabrous. Leaves usually clustered at the 

 ends of each year's shoots, so as to appear almost verticillate, petiolate, broadly 

 oval or elliptical, acuminate, shining, 5 to 7-nerved on both sides, mostly 1^ to 

 2in. long. Flowers small, white, in terminal, solitary or clustered, interrupted 

 spikes, f to lin. long. Bracts small; bracteoles obtuse, not half so long as the 

 calyx. Sepals ^ line loijg or rather more, obtuse, striate. Corolla-tube about 1 

 line long ; lobes shorter than the tube, bearded to the middle as well as the upper 

 part of the tube with reflexed hairs. Hypogynous disk shortly lobed. Ovary 

 tapering into a short style. Drupe depressed-globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter, the 

 pyrenes less readily separable than in the other species. — DC. Prod. vii. 758 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3324 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 57 ; Cyathodes laurina, Rudge in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. viii. 298 t. 9 (Styphelia cornifolia on the plate). 



Hab.: From the southern border to the summit of Bellendeu Ker in the north. 



Wood of a pinkish colour, close-grained, hard, and nicely marked.— BoiJeu's Cat. Ql. Woods 

 No. 259. 



4. BRACHYLOMA, Sond. 



(Corolla-lobes short.) 



(Lobopogon, Schlecht.) 



Corolla-tube short, glabrous inside, but a ring of long hairs descending into it 



from tufts or fringed scales at the base of each lobe ; lobes more or less imbricate 



in the bud (almost valvate in B. daphnoides), spreading, glabrous pr slightly 



