Pentachondra. | EPACRIDACKAE. 693 
A small family, mainly separated from Ericaceae by the l-celled anthers with 
longitudinal dehiscence. It is almost wholly confined to Aust salts and New Zealand, 
a few s species only being found in the Pacific islands and the Malay Archipelago, and 
one in temperate South America. Genera 26; species about 300. The properties of 
the family are unimportant, but many of the species are well worth cultivation from 
the beauty of their flowers. All the New Zealand genera are found in Australia. 
* Ovules solitary in each cell of the ovary. Fruit a drupe. 
pmel 
Fruit with 5 distinct pyrenes a3 .. 1, PENTACHONDRA. 
Fruit with a 45-celled hard endocarp. Pedicels with numerous 
imbricating bracts 
Pedicels with few bracts 
. CYATHODES., 
. LEUCOPOGON, 
Go bo 
** Ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit a capsule. 
Leaves usually petiolate, not sheathing. Bracts numerous, imbri- 
cate, passing into the calyx ; 4. EPAcRIs, 
Leaves petiolate, not sheathing. Bracts few, deciduous 5. ARCHERIA. 
Leaves narrow, with broad sheathing bases 6. DRACOPHYLLUM. 
1. PENTACHONDRA RB. Br. 
Spreading or prostrate shrubs, Leaves usually crowded, ovate-oblong 
or linear, striate. Flowers solitary or few together at the tips of the 
branches, axillary, on short peduncles. Bracts several, small, the upper- 
most with the rudiment of a second flower; bracteoles appressed to the 
calyx. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very short; lobes 5, revolute or 
recurved, bearded inside. Stamens 5, filaments inserted near the top of 
the corolla-tube, long or short ; anthers exserted or included. Hypogynous 
scales free or connate. Ovary 5-celled; style long or short ; stigma small ; 
ovules solitary, pendulous from the top of the cell. Fruit a baccate drupe 
with 5 (or more) distinct 1l-seeded pyrenes or nuts, sometimes fewer by 
abortion. 
A smail genus of 4 or 5 species, confined to the mountains of Australia, Tasmania, 
and New Zealand. _ The single New Zealand species has the range of the genus. 
1, P. pumilarf&. Br. Prodr. (1810) 549.—A much and closely branched 
dwarf shrub 2-6in. high; stems stout, woody, procumbent; branches 
nee, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves numerous, crowded, suberect, 
4-1in. long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or with a callous tip, glossy, 
concave above 3-T-nerved beneath; margins finely ciliolate. Flowers 
almost sessile, solitary at the tips of the branchlets, about }1in. long, white 
or red. Bracts several, small, obtuse; bracteoles much shorter than the 
calyx. Sepals obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, much longer 
than a calyx; lobes short, recurved, bearded within. Berry rather 
large, g-} m. diam., globose or broadly pytiform, red ; pyrenes quite free, 
varying in number ‘from 5 to 10, but usually 8—A. Rich. Fl. Now. Zel. 
(1832) 217; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 410; Raoul Choix (1846) 44; 
Hook, f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 166; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 178; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. iv (1869) 164; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 410. P. rubra 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 601. P. polyphylla Col. le. xxxi 
(1899) 274. Trochocarpa novae-zealandiae Col. lc. xxvill (1896) 602. 
Kpacris pumila Forst, f. Prodr. (1786) n. 70. Chingy, Raw, iW 620 
NortH AND SoutH Isxtanps, Stewart Istanp: In hilly and mountainous dis- 
tricts; rare from Cape Colville southwards to the East Cape and the central volcanic 
plateau, from thence abundant to Stewart Island. Chiefly found between 2000 and 
5000 ft., but descends to sea-level in Stewart Island. December—February. 
