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very ornamental, particularly as tlie segments are bearded inside, and therefore display a kind of fringe when they 
roll back. The species is a native of the south-eastern portion of Australia, being found abundantly in 
the neighbourhood of Port Jackson. It was introduced in 1830. 
There are several other species, but the most ornamental, next to that already described, is S. triflora. 
S. pinifolia is also very ornamental, but it is now removed to a new genus, under the name of Stenanthera. 
GENUS II. 
EPACRIS Smith. THE EPACRIS. 
Un. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx coloured, many-bracteate, the brae- middle. Hypogynous scales five. Placentas adnate to the central 
teas of the same texture as the calyx. Corolla tubular, tvith a column. ((?. Don.') 
beardless limb. Stamens epipetalous. Anthers peltate above the 
Description, &c. — This is a genus of very ornamental plants, bearing so much resemblance to the heaths as to 
be supposed to belong to that family by the first settlers in New South Wales. The flowers, however, are easily 
distinguished from those of all kinds of heath, not only from their general form, but from their being always 
disposed in leafy spikes. The name of Epacris signifies upon a high place, because most of the species grow on lofty 
mountains. The species are very numerous, but the limits of the present work will not allow of more than one or 
two of the most ornamental kinds being described. 
1.— EPACRIS IMPRESSA LaUlL THE BEAUTIFUL EPACRIS. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 3407 ; Bot. Reg. for 1 839, t. 19 ; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab., t. 1691 ; Sweet’s Flora Austriaca, t. 4 ; Paxton’s Mag. of 
Bot., vol. iv., p. 125 ; The Botanist, t. 232 ; and om fig. 7, in PL 38. 
Specific Character. — Branches pubescent. Leaves sessile, sub- 
reflexed, linear-lanceolate, glaucous, mucronate. Flowers twin, on very 
short axillary pedicels. Calyx and scales \vith a velvety pubescence. 
Description, &c. — This veiy ornamental species is a native of Van Diemen’s Land, whence it was introduced 
in 1824. There are numerous varieties of it, and, in fact, it varies so much when raised from seed, that it is 
almost impossible to guess what kind of flower will be produced when the seeds are sown. Luckily both the 
species and the varieties are all very ornamental, and, like all the other species of the genus, they are valuable 
plants because they flower all the winter. E. impressa may be propagated either by seeds or by cuttings. 
OTHER SPECIES OP EPACRIS. 
E. MINIATA Undl. 
This is perhaps the most beautiful species of the genus, as the tube of its flowers is of a brilliant vermilion, 
and the limb a dazzling snow-white. It is, indeed, hardly possible to conceive a more beautiful plant of this family. 
The species, like the others, is a native of Van Diemen’s Land, whence it was introduced in 1844. 
E. nivalis Lodd. 
This species is extremely beautiful, not only on account of its snow-white flowers, but from their habit of 
growing always on one side of the branch, so that they hang from it hke fringe, while the branches themselves, 
being very long and flexible, may be trained so as to form festoons, or, in short, in any way that may be judged 
