Leucopogon.] LXtl. fePACRIDEiE. &3t 



46; Lusanthe striyosa, Sieb. PI. Bxs., not of R. Br.; Leucopognn Sieheri, DC. 

 Prod. vii. 751 ; Epacris villosa, Cav. Ic. iv. 27. t. 347 ; DC. Prod. vii. 763 (from 

 the figure and description). 

 Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller; very common in southern localities. 



19. Ii. neoanglicus (of New England), F. v. M. Herb,; Benth. Fl. Austr.'w. 

 223. An erect, very rigid shrub of 1 to 2ft. .Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, with a fine pungent point, quite entire, rigid, concave, imbricate or 

 rarely spreading, mostly 8 to 4 lines long. Peduncles axillary, exceedingly 

 short, bearing 1 or rarely 2 or 3 flowers. Bracts minute ; braoteoles broad, 

 muoronate, not half so long as the calyx. Sepals 2 lines long, very acute. 

 Corolla-tube as long as or slightly exceeding the calyx ; lobes shorter than the 

 tube. Anthers attached about the middle, obtuse, without sterile tips. Hypogynous 

 disk lobed or separating into distinct scales. Ovary 5-angled, 5-celled ; style 

 long, usually hairy ; stigma peltate. 

 Hab.: Stradbrooke Island, i'Vascr ; Stanthorpe to border of N.S.W. 



7. ACROTRICHE, E. Br. 

 (From akros, a point, and thrix, a hair.) 

 (Froebelia, Regel.) 

 Corqlla-tube equal to the calyx or longer ; lobes valvate in the bud, spreading, 

 with a tuft of long hairs inside at the end, at first inflexed, afterwards erect, 

 and a tuft of hairs or a hairy scale at the base closing the orifice of the tube. 

 Filaments short, terete, inserted at the top of the tube ; anthers oblong, usually 

 short, attached above the middle, very obtuse. Hypogynous disk cup-shaped, 

 truncate or obtusely lobed. Ovary 2 to 10-6elled, with 1 ovule in each cell ; 

 style short, with a small stigma. Drupe globular or depressed, the mesocarp 

 slightly pulpy, the endocarp 2 to 10-celled, rather hard, the pyrenes usually less 

 consolidated than in most Leiicopogons, but much more so than in Trochocarpa. 

 — Low rigid shrubs, usually very divaricately branched. Leaves rigid. Flowers 

 small, in little sessile or shortly pedunculate spikes, condensed into heads or 

 clusters, in the axils of the previous year's leaves or on the stem below the 

 leaves, each flower sessile within the small subtending bract and 2 bracteoles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. Although the technical characters by which it is 

 distinguished may appear of little importance, yet the genus is a very natural one. The 

 inflorescence is peculiar, although an approach to it may be observed in Monoioca scopana. — 

 Benth. 



Spikes or clusters mostly in the axils of the previous year's leaves. Leaves 

 mucronate, mucronate-acute, or pungent-pointed, lanceolate or oblong, 

 Jin. long or more. 

 Corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx. Ovary usually 5-oelled. Leaves 



scarcely paler underneath ........ i I. A. divaricata. 



Corolla-tube t^ice as long as the calyx. Ovary 6 to 10-celled. Leaves 

 pale or glaucous underneath 2. A. aggregata. 



1. A. divaricata (branches spreading), R. Br. Prod. 54:7 ;. Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 26. A shrub, attaining sometimes several feet, but of diffuse or 

 spreading habit, the branches usually shortly hirsute. Leaves spreading, from 

 oblong- elliptical to narrow-lanceolate, mucronate, acute, flat or slightly concave 

 or convex, scarcely paler underneath, ^in. long or rather more. Flowers very 

 small, green, in very short spikes or clusters, nearly sessile in the lower axils. 

 Bracts very small ; bracteoles very broad, about half as long as the calyx. 

 Sepals broad, very obtuse, f line long. Corolla nearly If line long, the lobes as 

 long as the tube, the throat closed with dense tufts of hairs. Ovary (always ?) 

 5-celled, not ribbed. Fruit red, nearly globular, IJ line diameter.^DC. Prod, 

 vii. 756 ; Styphelia divaricata, Sprang. Syst. i. 658 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 44. 



Hab.: Towards Moreton Bay and Durval, Leichhurdt; Stanthorpe; Cooper's Plains (in fruit. 

 May, 1878). 



