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THE TASMANIAN NATURALIST 
Actotriche. A small genus, with small greenish flowers in clusters, 
which, instead of being placed towards the ends of the branches, as in 
other genera, are developed far back. The corolla bears a tuft of hairs 
at the tip of each lobe, and five hairy scales at the throat. The fruit is 
as in Lissanthe. 
Brachyloma has small solitary flowers, the stalks of which in Tasmanian 
specimens have no bracts, or very small ones beyond the two bracteoles. 
The lobes of the corolla are placed differently to those of the other 
genera, in the bud they are imbricate, that is, the margins of some overlap 
others, whereas in the others they are valvate, that is, meet one another, 
edge to edge. The tipper surface of the lobes are in some species hairy, 
in others not, but there is always a ring of long hairs or fringed scales at 
the throat and reflected down the tube. The fruit is small, fleshy, with 
a five celled stone. 
Pentachondra has small or medium sized flowers, the lobes are 
hairy on the upper surface and where at all long are reflexed as in 
Styphelia. The bracts are many, the upper one of which bears a rudi¬ 
mentary flower, otherwise they are solitary. The fruit is fleshy, but 
differs in containing five free, one seeded stones. 
Trochocarpa , often also called Dccaspora, bears small flowers in 
clusters, each in the axil of a bract The corolla is hairless, or with 
tufts of reflexed hairs. The fruit is rather large, very fleshy, pale blue, 
and contains ten one seeded stones. 
Of the Epacris tribe we have six genera. 
Epacris . The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, and their stalks 
are closely covered with persistent bracts. The corolla tube may be long 
and slender, or rather short. The stamens are usually included in the 
tube, but in one or two species they freely protude. The fruit is a dry, 
five-chambered capsule, with the style sunk in the centre. Ovules are 
numerous in each chamber, and arise from a small cushionlike placenta 
formed on the inner angle, that is towards the axis. I his condition of 
fruit is common to the tribe; only in Richea and Dracophyllum the 
placenta is on the end of a short club, which arises from the axile angle. 
Archeria is very close to Epacris. It differs in the flower being 
more grouped together, sometimes racemed ; the bracts tall while the 
flower is yet young; the bracteoles are distant from the calyx, and the pit 
round ; the style is much deeper. 
Prionotes. There is but one species in Australia, and it is confined 
to South West Tasmania. It is a tall climber. Flowers are relatively 
large, often an inch long. Solitary in leaf axils the long slendei sta v 
bears many minute bracts. The calyx is very small, the corolla tube 
long, with five small recurved lobes. The stamens are free rom tie 
corolla, and inserted into the torus. When young the ant ers aie 
bilocular, but they open by one longitudinal slit. 
Sprengclia. Flowers are solitary in the leaf axils. 1 eta Is are 
united only at the extreme base. Stamens are inserted on the torus. 
