Leucopoffon.] tittl. fiPACftlDEifi. 9§6 



attached near the top, obtuse, without sterile tips. Hypogynous disk large, 

 truncate. Ovary broad, flat-topped, 5-angled or almost 10-ribbed, 5-celled ; style 

 short. Fruit ovoid-oblong, twice as long as the calyx. — DC. Prod. vii. 752 ; 

 Styphelia ruscifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 686. 



Hab.: Cape York and Lizard Island, M'Gillivray ; Endeavour] Eiver, Banks and Solander ; 

 Port Bowen, Percy Island, A. Cunningham. 



12. I,, imbricatus (leaves imbricate), R. Br. Prod. 545; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 215. An erect shrub, of about l^ft., with divaricate branches, usually 

 glabrous. Leaves crowded, erect and often imbricate, sessile but often con- 

 tracted at the base, obovate-oblong, obtuse, but with a fine rigid point, slightly 

 concave, under -Jin. long. Peduncles axillary, very short, bearing 1 or 2 flowers 

 besides the rudiment. Bracts very small ; bracteoles very broad, obtuse, not 

 half so long as the calyx. Sepals 1^ line long, dry, obtuse. Corolla-tube as long 

 as the calyx ; lobes as long as the tube. Anthers attached above the middle, 

 obtuse, without sterile tips. Hypogynous disk crenate. Ovary 5 or sometimes 

 4-celled. — DC. Prod. vii. 752 ; Styphelia imbricata, Spreng. Syst. i. 656. 



Hab.: Northumberland Island, R. Brown (Herb. B. Brown). 



This species has much larger flowers than L, ruscif alius and L. citspidatus, wh-oh it otherwise 

 resembles. — Benth. 



13. Ii. cuspidatus (leaves with a point), R. Br. Prod. 545 ; Benth. FL 

 Austr. iv. 215. An erect or spreading much-branched shrub, from under 1 to 3 

 or 4ft. high, glabrous or the branches minutely pubescent. Leaves oblong or 

 oblanoeolate, contracted at the base and almost petiolate, shortly tapering into 

 a fine rigid point, shining, 3 to 4 lines long. Peduncles axillary, very short, 

 bearing 1 or 2 small flowers besides the rudiment. Bracts very small ; bracteoles 

 broad, obtuse, not half so long as the calyx. Sepals 1 to IJ lines long, dry, 

 acute or mucronate. Corolla nearly 3 lines long, the tube shorter than the 

 calyx ; the lobes longer than the tube. Anthers obtuse, without sterile tips. 

 Ovary 5-oelled ; style rather long. Fruit ovoid, shortly exceeding the calyx. 

 — DC. Prod. vii. 751 ; Styphelia cuspidata, Spreng. Syst. i. 657 ; Acrotriche 

 aristata, Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 76 ; DC. Prod. vii. 757. 



Hab.: Northumberland Islands, R. Brown; Percy Island, A. Cunningham; Eookhampton, 

 O'Shanesy, Dallachy ; Warwick, Beckler. 



Near L. Uptospermoides, but readily known by the long fine point of the leaves and much 

 longer flowers — Benth. 



14. Xi, leptospermoides (Leptospermum-like), R. Br. Prod. 546 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 216. An erect bushy shrub of 2 or 3ft., the branches hoary-pubescent 

 or rarely glabrous. Leaves oblong-linear to linear-lanceolate, tapering into a 

 short rigid or callous point, flat or nearly so, shining, mostly about fin. long. 

 Peduncles axillary, very short, bearing 1 or 2 flowers besides the rudiment. 

 Bracts small ; bracteoles about half as long as the calyx. Sepals about 1 J line 

 long, mucronate but scarcely acute. Corolla scarcely above 2 lines long, the 

 lobes as long as the tube. Anthers attached near the top, obtuse, without sterile 

 tips. Hypogynous disk truncate, readily separable into distinct scales. Ovary 

 5-angled,' 5-celled ; style short. — DC. Prod. vii. 751; Styphelia leptospermoides, 

 S-preng. Syst. i. 659. 



Hab.: Harvey Bay, Sandy Cape, R. Brown; Moreton Island, A. Cunningham, M'Gillivray, 

 F. u. Mueller; towards Durval, Leichhardt. 



Also apparently a variety, with very obtuse sepals, but the specimen in bud only from 

 Bockhampton, DaUachy. 



The species closely resembles L. melaleucoides in foliage, but the inflorescence is axillary, not 

 terminal. L. paucijlorus, E. Br. Prod. 546; DC. Prod. vii. 752; Styphelia pauciflora, Spreng. 

 Syst. 1. 658, appears to be a depauperated state of L. leptospermoides.— Benth. 



