938 LXXI. EPACEIDE^. [Acrotriche. 



2. A. aggregata (flowers aggregated), R. Br. Prod. 547 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 226. A spreading shrub, with the habit of A. divaricata, the branches 

 glabrous pubescent or shortly hirsute. Leaves spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 

 mucronate-aoute, nearly flat or slightly convex, pale or whitish underneath, 

 ^ to lin. long. Flowers in very short axillary spikes or clusters, sessile or 

 shortly pedunculate, mostly on the previous year's shoots. Bracts very small ; 

 bracteoles scarcely half so long as the calyx. Sepals almost orbicular, f line 

 long. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx, the lobes about 1 line, throat 

 closed with dense tufts of hairs. Ovary 7 to 10-celled, not ribbed. Fruit 

 depressed-globular, at least 2 lines diameter when perfect. — DC. Prod. vii. 767 ; 

 Styphelia aggregata, Spreng. Syst. i. 657 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 44. 



Hab.: Port Bowen, iJ. Brown; Wide Bay (with larger flowers than usual), Bidwill; Brisbane 

 Biver, Moreton Island, F. v. Mueller; towards Durval, Leichhardt; Stanthorpe, Davidton; 

 Herberton, J. F. Bailey ; Eockingham Bay. 



8. MONOTOCA, E. Br. 



(From monos, one, and tokos, a birth.) 



Corolla-tube small, campanulate or scarcely cylindrical ; lobes 5 or rarely 4, 

 valvate in the bud, spreading, glabrous. Filaments inserted at the top of the 

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

 or spreading with the lobes. Hypogynous disk truncate, lobed or separating 

 into distinct scales. Ovary 1-celled or rarely 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell ; 

 style short ; stigma small. Fruit a small drupe, with a somewhat pulpy 

 mesocarp, and a hard or crustaceous endocarp, with a single seed. — Shrubs or 

 small trees. Leaves with recurved margins or nearly flat. Flowers small, often 

 more or less unisexual, in axillary or terminal spikes or racemes, or sometimes 

 quite solitary, each flower sessile or pedicellate within the subtending bract, with 

 2 bracteoles close under the calyx. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It is closely allied to Leucopogon, differing in the small 

 almost campauulale corolla with glabrous lobes, and in most cases also by the 1-celled ovary, 

 from whence the name is derived. — Benth. 



Ovary 1-celled. Flowers 5-merous. 

 Flowers pedicellate, in terminal or also axillary racemes, or rarely solitary. 



Bracts deciduous or none ; bracteoles at the top of the pedicel 1. M. elliptica. 



Flowers all axillary. Bracts small, persistent. 



Flowers in small pedunculate spikes. Leaves muoronate 2. M. lineata. 



Flowers in almost sessile clusters of 2 to i. Leaves mucronate. Corolla 



not very spreading 3. M. eeoparia 



1. IVE. elliptica (leaves elliptical), R. Br. Prod. 546; Benth Fl. Awtr. 

 iv. 230. A tall shrub or sometimes a tree of 20 to 30ft. Leaves from broadly 

 elliptioal-oblong to almost oqlong-linear, mucronate, slightly convex, pale or 

 whitish and finely veined underneath, under Jin. long in some specimens, from J 

 to lin. in others. Flowers pedicellate, few or many together, forming short, 

 racemes, either terminal or also axillary, and sometimes exceeding the leaves or 

 growing out into leafy branches, with a few solitary axillary flowers. Sub- 

 tending bracts membranous, very deciduous ; bracteoles not half so long as the 

 calyx, and close under it. Sepals half as long as the corolla, broad, and very 

 obtuse. Corolla from scarcely 1 line to IJ line long, campanulate, the lobes 

 recurved, shorter than the tube. Hypogynous disk truncate or sinuate-to»thed. 

 Ovary 1-celled, tapering into a short style. Fruit ovoid, IJ to nearly 2 lines 

 long. — DC. Prod. vii. 756 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 58 ; Styphelia elliptica, Sm. Bot. 

 N. HoU. 49 ; M. albens, E. Br. Prod. 647 ; DC. Prod. vii. 755. ' 



Hab.: Moreton Island, F. v. Mueller. i 



