Lyiinema] LXXI. EPAGEIDE^. 941' 



each cell,, on a placenta attached to the axis. Style often thickened above the 

 ovary, .inserted in a shallow or deep and tubular depression of the ovary. Capsule 

 loculicidally dehiscent.— Erect straggling or virgate shrubs. Leaves persistent. 

 Flowers almost sessile and solitary in the upper axils, forming leafy heads or 

 spikes or rarely more scattered along the branches. Bracts very numerous 

 imbricate, covering the very short peduncles and calyx, passing gradually into 

 the sepals and forming an involucre round them. , 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



1. I., pungens (leaves sharp -pointed), R. Br. Prod. 552 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 IV. 243. An erect shrub with long branches, hoary-pubescent when young but 

 alraost concealed by. the leaves. Leaves ovate, acuminate and tapering into a 

 rigid point, broad, very concave and shortly erect immediately above the base, 

 then very spreading, | to nearly ^in; long. Flowers white or rarely red, sessile 

 m the upper axils. Oalyx and bracts forming a narrow involucre tapering to the 

 top, 4 to 5 lines long. Corolla-tube slender, as long as or rather longer than the 

 calyx ; lobes broad, mucronulate. Filaments free or more or less adnate to the 

 corolla-tube. Hypogynous scales, narrow, acuminate.— DC. Prod. vii. '766 • 

 Epacris pungens, Cav. Ic. iv. 26 t. 346; Bot. Mag. t. 1199; F. v. M. Fragm. vi! 

 70 ; E. attenuata, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 88 ; Lijdmma attenuatum, Link. Enum. 

 Hort. Berol. i. 211 ; Epacris rosea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 8G3 ; E. riparia, Sieb! 

 PI. Exs., not of R. Br.; Lysinetna Sieberi, Benth. in. Hueg. Enum. 76 ■ Woollsia 

 '"— — F. V. M. Fragm. viii. 52. 



Hab.; Moreton Island, F. t). AfMeiZ«r; Stradbroobe Island. 



11. SPRENGELIA, Sm. 



(After Kurt Sprengel.) 

 (Ponoeletia, B. Br.) 

 Corolla-tube very short, son^etimes separating into distinct petal-claws ; lobes 6, 

 Very spreading, more or less imbricate in the bud. Stamens hypogynous, shorter 

 than the corolla ; anthers connivent or cohering in a ring round the style. 

 Hypogynous disk none. Ovary 6-celled, with several ovules in each cell, on a 

 nearly sessile placenta attached to the axis ; style filiform, inserted in a tubular 

 depression of the ovary. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent. — Shrubs. Leaves with 

 a shortly sheathing often membranous base completely covering the branches 

 very concave and stem-clasping immediately above the base, acute or acuminate 

 with a spreading point, finely veined or almost veinless, the upper ones passing 

 into floral leaves or bracts, the sheathing base of the stem-leaves deciduous with 

 them, leaving the denuded stem without scars. Flowers solitary and terminal, 

 surrounded by numerous leafy bracts. Sepals not of a very different texture from 

 the last bracts. Corolla as long as or scarcely exceeding the calyx. 



The genus is limited to Eastern Australia. 



1. S. Ponceletia (after M. Poncelet), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 39 vi. 60 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iv. 248. A glabrous erect shrub attaining but few feet. Leaves 

 broad, concave, spreading or incurved, acuminate and pungent-pointed, smooth 

 or finely-veined, 2 to 4 lines long, the uppermost floral ones or leafy bracts like 

 the others or with a broader base and crowded round the flower into a kind of 

 involucre. Sepals leaf-like but more lanceolate, almost obtuse, usually about 

 3 lines long but very variable in breadth. Corolla about as long as the calyx, the 

 very short broad tube not separating into petal-claws, the lobes much longer, very 

 broad and obtuse, almost cordate at tbe base, very much imbricate. Filaments 



