980 LXXI. EPACRIDE^. [Lissanthe. 



toothed. Ovary 5-celled ; style not exceeding the corolla-tube ; stigma small. 

 Fruit a baccate drupe, the mesocarp pulpy, the endocarp hard and bony, with 5 

 cells and seeds or fewer by abortion. — Shrubs with the habit of Leucopogon. 

 Flowers small, in small spikes or racemes, the terminal ones several-flowered, the 

 axillary ones reduced to 2 or 3 or even a single one, but always ending with the 

 rudiment of an additional flower, with 1 subtending bract and two bracteoles 

 under each flower. 

 The genus is limited to Australia. 



1. Xi. Strigosa (hispid), B. Br. Prod. 540; Binth. Fl. Austr. iy. 175. A 

 bushy shrub, sometimes low and spreading, but usually erect and attaining about 

 2ft., the branches glabrous or pubescent. Leaves linear, rigid, tapering into a 

 pungent point, under Jin. long. Flowers white or more or less pink, crowded in 

 short racemes, 2 or 3 in the axillary ones, more numerous in the terminal one, 

 each flower very shortly pedicellate within the bract and bracteoles. Sepals 

 ovate, obtuse, about 1 line long. Corolla-tube about IJ line long, more or less 

 hairy inside above the middle ; lobes much shorter, glabrous. Anthers attached 

 above the middle. Hypogynous disk shortly 5-lobed ; style rather thick, 

 pubescent at the base, shorter than the corolla-tube. Fruit small, globular. — 

 DC. Prod. vii. 742 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 247 ; Styphelia strigosa, Urn. Bot. N. 

 HoU. 49 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 42 ; Lissanthe subulata, R. Br. Prod. 540 ; DC. 

 Prod. vii. 742; L. intermedia, A. Cunn.; DC. I.e.; L. rigida, Benth. in Hueg. 

 Enum. 76 ; DC. I.e. 



Hab.: Not uncommon in southern localities. 



6. LEUCOPOGON, R. Br. 



(Flowers white-bearded.j) 

 (Perojoa, Cav.; Phanerandra, Stschegl.) 

 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 in the upper poirtion, the whole inner surface, or 

 rarely the lower portion only, densely bearded. Filaments inserted at the top of 

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

 erect base of the corolla-lobes. Hypogynous disk cup-shaped, truncate, 5-toothed, 

 5-lobed or formed of 5 distinct scales. Ovary usually 2, 8, or 5 or sometimes 

 more-celled ; style from very short to longer than the corolla-tube ; stigma small, 

 rarely larger and peltate. Fruit a drupe, the mesocarp sometimes pulpy but 

 usually thin, the endocarp erustaeeous or hard, with as many cells and seeds as 

 in the ovary or fewer by abortion. — Shrubs of various habit, rarely rising into 

 small trees. Flowers small, rarely Jin. long, in small spikes (or very rarely 

 racemes), terminal or axillary, sometimes many-flowered, sometimes reduced to 

 few or a single one, but the rhachis always ending in the rudiment of an 

 additional one ; each flower sessile or rarely pedicellate within a subtending bract, 

 with 2 bracteoles close under or rarely at a little distance from the calyx. 



The genus, chiefly Australian, is represented also by a few species in New Zealand and some 

 islands of the Malayan Archipelago and South Pacific. 



Sect. I. Perojoa. — Inflorescence chiefly or entirely terminal, rarely all axillary, and then 

 the spikes long, slender and inteiTwpted. Anthers with sterile tips. Style very short. 



Seeies I. Psllostacliyfle. — Spikes slender, interrupted, axillary or terminal, usually as 

 long as the leaves. Leaves flat or convex. 

 Leaves lanceolate. Ovary 2-oelled. Fruit ovoid, red 1. i. lanceolatus. 



Series II. Australes. — Spikes all terminal or also in the upper a.xils, short and dense, or 

 cylindrical and rather dense. Leaves flat or convex, with recurved or revolute margins. Ovary 

 5-celled, or rarely 4 or S-celled. 

 Spikes cylindrical, rather dense. Leaves oblong or lanceelate, finely 



veined. Ovary 5 or rarely 4-celled. Fruit ovoid-globose 2, L, Jiichei- 



