EPACRIS impressa. 
Elegant Epacris, 
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, EPACRIDE/. Brown prodr. 1. p.535. 
EPACRIS, Calyx coloratus, multibracteatus, bracteis texturA calycis. Corolla tu- 
bulosa, limbo imberbi, Stamina epipetala: antheris supra medium peltatis. Squamule 
5 hypogyne. Capsula placentis columne centrali adnatis.—Fruticuli ramosi, sepiis 
glabri, Folia sparsa, petiolata v. basi simplici. Flores axillares, in spicam foliatum sepiis 
digesti, albi v. purpurascentes, Brown prodr. 1. p. 650. 
E. impressa, floribus nutantibus, foliis lanceolatis sessilibus acutissimis patulis mucro- 
nato-pungentibus, pedunculis calyce brevioribus, calycibus acutis margine ciliatis, 
corollis cylindraceis calyce triplo longioribus, 
Epacris impressa. Labill. nov. holl. 1. p, 43. t. 58. Brown prodr. p. 551. Rem. et Schult. 
syst. 4, p. 381. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 629. Swt. hort. brit. p. 266. 

An elegant upright slender branched bushy shrub: branches 
erect, thickly covered with evergreen leaves, and clothed with a 
short white dense pubescence. Leaves scattered, horizontally 
spreading, sessile, lanceolate, taper-pointed, and terminated 
with a sharp rigid mucrone, smooth and glossy, of a bright 
glossy green, and flat on the upper side, underneath paler, and 
slightly keeled. lowers in a sort of spike, axillary, nodding, 
of a bright rose colour. Peduncle slender, about half the 
length of the calyx. Bractes several, surrounding the calyx, 
ovate or broadly lanceolate, with a sharp rigid point, the mar- 
gins woolly or fringed: lower ones shortest and broadest. Calya 
5-parted: lacinie broadly lanceolate, keeled with short woolly 
hairs. Corolla tubular, about three times the length of the 
calyx: limb 5-cleft, the laciniz ovate, bluntish, spreading. 
Stamens 5, inserted in the tube a little below the mouth; 
filaments very short and slender, attached to the back of the 
anthers a little above the middle: anthers linear; pollen white. 
Ovarium smooth, surrounded by 5 small green very blunt scales. 
Style about the length of the tube, smooth, tapering upwards. 
Stigma capitate, slightly 5-lobed, viscous. 
