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character Mr. Brown detected, and applied in distinguishing them. The flowers are smaller than in Tasmanian specimens
of C. cxycedrns.
2. Cyathodes oxyceirus, B r. ; fruticosa, erecta v. decumbens, foliis semiuncialibus linearibus hueari-
subulatisve acerosis pun g en tib us margine n udis subtus 3 -5 -u e rv iis nervis omnibus simplicibus. B r . Prodr.
BC. Prodr.
A ar. ^ ; foliis longe lineari-subulatis aristatis |-u n c ia lib u s.
A' ar. 7 ; decumbens, foliis sparsis patulis -^-uncialibus.
H a b . Middle and Southern Islan d s. New Eiver, Eerb. A . Richard. Bluff Islan d , L y a ll. Var. fi.
Dusky Bay, Menzies. Var. 7 . P o rt Underwood, l y a l l . N a t. name, “ P a to ta ra ,” Middle Islan d , l y a l l .
I very much doubt this species being distinct from 0. acerosa, from which it diflfers 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 0. acerosa, being smaller than those of the Tasmanian
C. oxycedrus.
3 . Cyathodes empeirifolia, Hook. fil. ; caulibus p rostratis gracilibus incanis, ramulis ascendentibus,
foliis parvis patulis linearibus subacerosis obtusis marginibus recurvis subtus glaucis incanis puberulis
ciliatisve, floribus solitariis binisve parvis, bracteis calycisque lobis ciliatis. Androstoma empetrifolia, Fl.
.An ta rc t.p . 4 4 . t. 30.
H a b . Mountainous regions of all th e Islands, abundant, B idw ill, Colenso, etc.
A common straggling mountain plant, with slender, heath-like, prostrate, leafy branches, and very small white
axiUary flowers. Stems 1 -2 feet long. Leaves very uniform, i inch long, spreading, rigid, Unear, blunt, convex
and smooth or hoary above, margins recnrved. under surface glaucous, cUiated, pubescent or glabrous. Peduncle
very sbort, clothed with imbricating bracteolæ. the two upper of which are rather larger than the rest. Corolla
scarcely exserted. Drupes two- to five-ceUed.— I made of this plant (which I discovered in Lord Auckland’s Group)
• genus, characterized by the stamens being placed at the very mouth of the corolla, and hence exserted. while
■ ■ t 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 aU therefore be kept in the same genus.
Gen. I I . LEUCO POG O N, Br.
Calyx 2 -3 -b rao te atu s. Corolla infundibuliformis v. campanulatus ; limbo patente, longitudinaliter
2-5 -lo cu lare ; loculis b a rb a to . Filamenta in c lu s a v. e x serta. 1 -ovulatis. baccata
e x su c c a , ra r iu s Crustacea.
This is a very extensive Australian and Tasmaman 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. I t differs
from Cyathodes in the oalyx 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 and hard one-oeUed one-seeded nut ; at others it
IS like that of Cyathodes, round and fleshy. (Name from Xevras, white, and irar/av, a beard)
1. Leucopogon/aicjCTifafiM, A. E ic h .; 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 -flo ris foliis æquilongis brevioribusve puberulis, floribus parvis,
calycis lobis bracteisque obtusis viridibus. A. R ich . Flora. A . Cunn. Frock. BC. Prodr. Epacris, Forst.
Prodr. Stypbeha lanceolata. B a n k s et Sol. Ic.
Var. f i ; fo liis su b v e rtic illa tis b r e v ite r o b o v a to -o b lo n g is .
Yar. 7 ; foliis parvis anguste lineari-lanceolatis pungentibus.
II a b . A b u n d an t th ro u g h o u t th e Islan d s, B a n k s a n d Solander, etc. T a r. fi. On th e mountains and
in low grounds. Var. 7 . Alouutains. N a t. name, “ Tumingi,” Middle Islan d , L ja ll .
In 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 aud 2 -3 lines wide. In
var. 3, however, they are comparatively much broader and blunter, | inch long and 3 linos 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. Ilowers sessile on the spike. 1 line long ; bracteæ and calyx-lobes blunt. Stamens
inserted at the mouth of the corolla. Drupe small, hardly fieshy, oblong, few-celled.
2. Leucopogon Colensoi, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus, caule decumbente ramoso, ramis ascendentibus, ramulis
incanis, foliis erecto-patulis lineari-oblongis acutis obtusisve marginibus ciliolatis apices versus sæpissime
submembranaceis su b tu s glaucis 5 -7 -n erv iis, nervis extimis ramosis, racemis brevibus 3 -5 -ilo ris , calycis
lobis bracteisque 2 -3 late ovatis obtusis, staminibus fauce corollæ insertis, drupis baccatis, nuce 5-loculari.
H a b . N o rth e rn Islan d . Base of Tongariro, Taupo, etc., Colenso.
A small, prostrate, heath-like slirul), a foot high, with 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 ofteu dilated and membranous
Spikes erect, short, stout, longer thau the leaves, puberulous, three- to five-flowered. Floioers nearly sessile, with
one bract at the base of the very short peduncle and two below the oalyx, 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, witli
a five-celied, bony, enclosed nut.—This very distinct species so closely resembles in foliage the Cyathodes Tarnaia-
nieice, Cham., of the Sandwich Islands, that it is difiicult to distinguish them at first sight. I t is still more nearly
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. d iviso,
ramis erectis foliosis puberulis, foliis erectis imbricatis obovato-oblongis acuminatis aristatis striato-
venosis marginibus ciliolatis cartilagineo-chartaceis, floribus axillaribus sessilibus solitariis, corolla tubulosa
calycis lobis ovatis acumiuatis te r longiore, drupa baccata. A . Cmm. Prodr. L. nesopliilus, BC . Prodr.
V. 7. p . 7 52. L . Bellignianus, Raoul, Choix de Pla n tes, p . 18. t. 12. Styplielia Immilis, B a n k s ct Sol.
M S S . et Ic.
H a b . A bundant th ro u g lio u t th e N o rth e rn and Middle Islands, in dry, sandy, clayey, and rocky places.
B a n k s a n d Solander, etc. N a t. name, “ To tara,” Col.
Whole plaut 2 -4 inches high, branching from the base. Branches erect, covered with imbricating leaves
i - i inch long. Leaves obovate-oblong. acuminate, aristate, striated, with cartilaginous, thin, serrulate margins.
Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, longer than the leaves, white, large for the size of the plant aud for the genus,
sweet-scented. Corolla at least thrice as loug as the calyx, tubular. Style hairy. Drupe orange-coloured, eatable,
sweetish.—A’ery similar to a Java species, which might well be supposed the same, judging by the leaf only ; but
the corolla in that is barely longer than tlie calyx. I t is still more nearly allied to a Tasmanian species, L. pungens,
wdiich 1 called Feniachondra pungens (Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 270) ; but in that plant the corolla is mncli
shorter than in this, and hardly twice the length of the ealyx. M. Dc Candolle has altered the specific name of tbis,
and retained another MS. name of Cunningham’s (also of Frazeri) for a New Holland plant. A. Cunningham liad,
however, published the New Zealand one under tliis name before the appearance of the seventh volume of T)e
Candolle containing the Fpacridece.