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character Mr. Brown detected, and applied in distingmshing them. The flowers are smaller than in Tasmanian spe-
cimeiis of C. cxycedrus.
%. Cyatliodes oxycednis, Br. ; fruticosa, erecta v. decumbens, foliis semiimeialibus linearibus lineaii-
subulatisve acerosis pungentibus margine nudis subtus S-5-nerviis nervis omnibus simplicibus. Br. Prodr.
BC. Prodr.
5' ar. /3 ; foliis longe lineari-subulatis aristatis |-uncialibus.
A ar. 7 ; decumbens, foliis sparsis patulis ^uncialibus.
H ab. Middle and Southern Islands. New Eiver, Eerb. A. Richard. Bluff Island, Lyall. Var. /S.
Dusky Bay, Menzies. Var. 7 . Port Underwood, LyaU. Nat. name, “ Pa totara,” Middle Island, Lyall.
I very much doubt this species being distinct from C. acerosa, from which it differs in the narrower, more
subulate leaves, with fewer veins below, all simple (none branched). I have not seen flowers except in Mr.
Menzies’ specimens of var. (3 ; they entirely resemble those of C. acerosa, being smaller than those of the Tasmanian
C. oxycedruz.
3. Cyathodes empetrifoUa, Hook, fil.; caulibus prostratis gracilibus incanis, ramulis ascendentibus,
fobis parvis patulis bnearibus subacerosis obtusis marginibus recurvis subtus glaucis incanis puberulis
ciliatisve, floribus solitariis binisve parvis, bracteis calycisque lobis ciliatis. Androstoma empetrifolia, Fl.
Antarct. p . 44. t. 30.
H ab. Mountainous regions of all the Islands, abundant, BidwUl, Colenso, etc.
A common straggling mountain plant, with slender, heath-like, prostrate, leafy branches, and very small white
axillary flowers. Stems 1-3 feet long, leaves very uniform, \ inch long, spreading, rigid, linear, blunt, convex
and smooth or hoary above, margins recurved, under surface glaucous, ciliated, pubescent or glabrous. Peduncle
very short, clothed with imbricating bracteolæ, the two upper of which are rather larger than the rest. Corolla
scarcely exserted. Drupes two- to five-celled.—I made of this plant (which I discovered in Lord Auckland’s Group)
a new genus, characterized by the stamens being placed at the very mouth of the corolla, and hence exserted, while
Cyathodes is described as having included filaments ; but I find that both C. acerosa and C. oxycedrus have the filaments
always exserted, as in C. empetrifolia, and they must all therefore be kept iu the same genus.
Gen. I I . LEUCOPOGON, Br.
Calyx 2-3-bracteatus. CoroUa infundibuliformis v. campanulatus ; limbo patente, longitudinaliter
barbato. Filamenta inclusa v. exserta. Ovarium 2-5-loculare ; locuHs 1-ovulatis. Drupa baccata v.
exsucca, rarius Crustacea.
This is a very extensive Australian and Tasmanian genus, some of the species giving a heathery appearance to
the landscape in many places. There are Pacific Island and Malayan species also, but few and scattered. It differs
from Cyathodes in the calyx having but two (rarely three) bracteæ, and in the lobes of the corolla being always
bearded. The drupe is sometimes reduced to a coriaceous pericarp aud hard one-celled one-seeded nut ; at others it
13 like that of Cyathodes, round and fleshy. (Name from \tvKos, white, and -KiApyoïv, a heard)
1 . L e u c o p o g o n A . Rich.; fruticosa v. arbuscula, foliis planis patulis lineari- v. obovato-
lanceolatis oblongisve acuminatis pungentibusve marginibus planis ciliatis serrulatisve, spicis axillaribus et
terminalibus aggregatis solitariisve 3-8-floris foliis æqmlongis brevioribusve puberulis, floribus parvis,
calycis lobis bracteisque obtusis viridibus. A. Rich. Flora. A, Cunn. FroiVr. DC. Fro&r. Epacris, Forst.
Frodr. Styphelia lanceolata. Banks et Sol. Ic.
Var. foliis subverticillatis breviter obovato-oblongis.
Var. 7 ; foliis parvis anguste lineari-lanceolatis pungentibus.
H a b . Abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, etc. Var. On the mountains and
in low grounds. Var. 7 . Mountains. Nat. name, “ Tumingi,” Middle Island, Lyall.
Iu its ordinary state this variable plant forms a small evergreen tree, or small bush, with twiggy pubescent
branches, and somewhat whorled, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves, au inch long and 3-3 lines wide. In
var. 8j however, they are comparatively much broader and blunter, 4 kch long and 3 lines wide ; whilst in var. y
they are shorter and very narrow, with pungent apices. In all varieties they are nearly flat, striated above, obscurely
veined below, with ciliated or denticulate margins. Spikes shorter than or as long as the leaves, drooping,
five- to ten-flowered, pubescent. Flowers sessile on the spike, 1 line long; bracteæ and calyx-lobes blunt. Stamens
inserted at the mouth of the corolla. Drupe small, hardly fleshy, oblong, few-celled.
2. Leucopogon Colensoi, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus, caule decumbente ramoso, ramis ascendentibus, ramulis
incanis, foliis erecto-patulis lineari-oblongis acutis obtusisve marginibus cibolatis apices versus sæpissime
submembranaceis subtus glaucis 5-7-nerviis, nervis extimis ramosis, racemis brevibus 3-5-floris, calycis
lobis bracteisque 2-3 late ovatis obtusis, staminibus fauce corollæ insertis, di’upis baccatis, nuce 5-loculari.
H a b . Northern Island. Base of Tongariro, Taupo, etc., Colenso.
A small, prostrate, beatb-iike shrub, a foot high, witb long, wood}*, leafy branches. Leaves uniform in size,
4 inch long, linear-oblong, blunt or sharp, smooth above, glaucous and many-veined below, the outer veins branching;
margins minutely ciliated, thickened, except towards the tip, where they are often dilated and membranous.
Spikes erect, short, stout, longer than tbe leaves, pubernlous, three- to five-flowered. Flowers nearly sessile, with
one bract at the base of the very short peduncle and two below the calyx, which, as well as the calyx-lobes, are
broadly ovate, blunt and concave. Corolla with the tube a little exserted, white. Drupe fleshy, white or red, with
a five-celled, bony, enclosed nut.—This very distmct species so closely resembles in foliage the Cyathodes Tamaia-
meicB, Cham., of the Sandwich Islands, that it is difficult to distinguish them at first sight. It is still more nearlv
allied to the leucopogon suaveolens. Nob., of Borneo. See Hook. Ic. Plant, in note to t. 898.
3. Leucopogon Frazeri, A. Cunn. ; fruticulus Immilis, caule e basi decumbente erecto simplici v. diviso,
ramis erectis foliosis puberulis, foliis erectis imbricatis obovato-oblongis acuminatis aristatis striato-
venosis marginibus ciliolatis cartilagineo-cbartaceis, floribus axiUaribus sessilibus solitariis, corolla tubulosa
calycis lobis ovatis acuminatis ter longiore, drupa baccata. A. Cunn. Frodr. L. nesopbilus, DC. Frodr.
V. 7. p . 752. L. Beliignianus, Raoul, Choix de Flantes, p . 18. t. 12. Styphelia humilis, Banks et Sol.
MSS. et Ic.
H a b . Abundant throughout tbe Northern and Middle Islands, in dry, sandy, clayey, and rocky places,
Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. name, “ Totara," Col.
Whole plant 3-4 inches high, branching from the base. Branches erect, covered witb imbricating leaves
4-4 inch long. Leaves obovate-oblong, acuminate, aristate, striated, witb cartilaginous, thin, serrulate margins.
Flowers axillary, soUtary, sessile, longer than the leaves, white, large for the size of the plant and for the genus,
sweet-scented. Corolla at least thrice as long as the calyx, tubular. Style hairy. Drupe orange-coloured, eatable,
sweetish.—Very similar to a Java species, which might well be supposed the same, judging by the leaf only; but
the corolla iu that is barely longer than the calyx. It is still more nearly allied to a Tasmanian species, L.pungens,
which 1 called Fentachondra pungens (Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 370) ; but in that plant the corolla is much
shorter than in this, and hardly twice the length of the calyx. M. De Candolle has altered the specific name of this,
and retained another MS. name of Cunningham’s (also of Frazeri) for a New Holland plant. A. Cnnninghani had,
however, published the New Zealand one under this name before the appearance of the seventh volume of De
Candolle containing the Epacrideoe.
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