Bmchyloma.] LXXI. EPACRIDE^. 929 



bearded. Filaments very short, inserted near the top of the tube ; anthers 1-celled, 

 attached above the middle, wholly or partially included in the tube. Hypogynous 

 disk truncate or 5-lobed, readily separating into distinct scales. Ovary 5-celled, 

 with 1 ovule in each cell. Style short ; stigma small. Fruit a small depressed 

 or globular drupe, the mesocarp somewhat pulpy. — Shrubs, with the foliage of 

 some species of Cyathodes and Leucopognn. Flowers small, solitary in the axils. 

 Pedicels short, with very small bracts or none besides the braoteoles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



Sect. I. XiObopogron. — Corolla-lobes obtuse. Bracts several. 

 Leaves linear-oblong, spreading, sessile, 4 to 5 lines long, § to 1^ line broad ; 



margins rough, a little recurved, shortly mucronate . '. 1. B. Scortechinii. 



Sect. II. Jiiaaantlioidea.— Corolla-lobes acutely acuminate. Bracts none besides the 2 

 bracteoles. 



Leaves ovate-elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with a minute callous 

 point. Corolla-lobes slightly imbricate at the base 2. B. daphnoides. 



1. B. Scortechinii (after Rev. B. Scortechini), F. v. M. Fragm. xi. 121. 

 A small, glabrous, erect shrub. Leaves linear-oblong, spreading, sessile, 4 to 5 

 lines long, f to 1^ line broad ; apex recurved, shortly mucronate ; margins scabrous, 

 pale on the under side. Peduncles very short. Bracteoles scarcely J line long, 

 rhomboid-orbicular. Sepals orbicular, not ciliate, very obtuse. Corolla about 2 

 lines long, white ; lobes rotundate, not bearded, imbricate in the bud. Filaments 

 none. Anthers pale-violet, about f line long, attached above the middle, not 

 apiculate, inserted a little below the corolla-limb. Style short, somewhat thick. 

 Hypogynous disk annular, undivided. Ovary 6, rarely 5-celled. Drupe 

 depressed-globular. 



Hab.: Swamps about Burleigh Head, Rev. B. Scortechini. 



^. B. daphnoides (Daphne-like), Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 173. An erect bushy 

 shrub, glabrous or the branchlets pubescent. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, 

 ovate-elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or with a short callous point, flat or 

 slightly concave, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers solitary in the axils or at the nodes, 

 but often several at the base of the shoots, without subtending leaves. Pedicels 

 very short, without any bracts except the 2 unequal bracteoles embracing the 

 calyx. Sepals i to f line long, usually ciliate. Corolla-tube If to nearly 2 lines 

 long, with a ring of long hairs inside reflexed from the throat ; lobes narrow, 

 much shorter than the tube, acute and nearly valvate, but 2 of them at least 

 slightly dilated and overlapping the intermediate one at the base, glabrous or 

 very shortly bearded inside. Filaments very short ; anthers attached above the 

 middle. Hypogynous disk 5-lobed. Ovary' 5-celled ; style short. Fruit small, 

 globular. — Styphelia daphnoideii, Sm. Bot. Nov. Holl. 48 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 42 ; 

 Lissanthe daphnoides, R. Br. Prod. 541 ; DC. Prod. vii. 743 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 

 466 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 248 ; L. Cunninghamii, DC. Prod. vij. 743 ; L. 

 stellata, Knowles and Westc. Fl. Cab. iii. 79 (from the description given). 



Hab.: Sandy Cape, R. Brown; Moreton Island, F. v. Mueller ; Mount Mitchell, Beckler ; 

 many other southern localities. 



5. LISSANTHE, R. Br. 



(From lissos, smooth, and anthos, a flower.) 



Corolla-tube longer or shorter than the calyx, glabrous or hairy inside above 

 the middle, without tufts of hairs or scales below the middle ; lobes valvate in the 

 bud, spreading or recurved upwards, glabrous inside, Filaments inserted at the 

 top of the tube, short, filiform ; anthers wholly or partially enclosed in the tube 

 or erect base of the coroUa-lobes, Hypogynous disk, cup-shaped, sinuate or 5^ 



