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20, t. 10, fig. n. ; Forst. Prodr. 71 ; Ardisia acerosa, Gsert. de Fruct. et 

 Semin. ii. 78, t. 94, fig. 2; Leuoopogon Forsteri, Ach. Eioh. Voy. de 

 I'Astrolabe, i. 216 ; Styphelia Oxycedrus, Labill. Nov. HoU. Plant. Specim, 

 i. 49, t. 69 ; Lissantte acerosa, L. Oxycedrus, L. parvifolia, Spreng. Syst. 

 Veget. i. 660 ; L. divaricata, J. Hook, in Loud. Journ. of Bot. Ti. 267. 



Leaves scattered, spreading, distinctly petioled, subulate- or 

 lanceolate-linear, rarely oblong- or oval-lanceolate, mucronate, seldom 

 blunt, beneath pale grey and lined with 3-5 or more thin nerves, 

 above not distinctly streaked ; flowers solitary, on densely bracteate 

 pedicels ; sepals blunt, ciliolated, as long as the tube of the corolla 

 or sometimes considerably shorter ; lobes of the corolla ridged, as 

 well as the faux glabrous or sometimes slightly hairy ; filaments 

 often almost entirely adnate ; style very short ; drupe depressed- 

 globose, red ; pericarp thick ; putamen five-celled or occasionally 

 with fewer cells. 



Varietas latifolia, J. Hook. Fl. Nov. Zeel. i. 163. 



Chatham-Island. Capt. Anderson. 



The broad- and long-leaved variety appears to be known only 

 from Chatham-Island, from whence it was first brought by Dr. 

 Dieffenbach. It differs from all the forms of C. acerosa collected in 

 New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania in larger often not mucro- 

 nate or even quite blunt leaves, which attain a length of 1" and a 

 width of 2 or 3'" and are then 7-11-nerved. The drupes are also 

 unusually large, measuring nearly |" in diameter. The corolla of 

 the Chathamian plant is 1^'" long, glabrous ; its tube equalling in 

 length the sepals ; the lobes are rather semilanceolate, whilst in 

 Tasmanian specimina they are often deltoid ; they are either glabrous 

 or slightly bearded by hardly perceptible downs. Anthers oval or 

 ellipsoid. 



The examination of a rich series of plants of our collection has 

 led to the union of all the plants enumerated here under C. acerosa. 

 The variability of the leaves is equally great in Monotoca or still 

 greater ; the length of the tube of the corolla affords no reliable 

 note of discrimination, as seen on forms of this species gathered on 

 the granite-rocks of Wilson's Promontory ; the scantily hairy faux 

 and lobes, which generally characterize together with the longer 

 corolla-tube C. divaricata, are also of no avail for distinction, since the 

 short-flowered variety occurs at Wilson's Promontory with equally 

 bearded corolla. Moreover Lissanthe montana (E. Br. Prodr. 540) 

 and Leucopogon Hookeri (Sond. in Linnsea, xxvi. 248 ; J. Hook. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 251, tab. 75 B ; L. obtusatus, J. Hook, in Lond. Journ. vi. 



