Edwards's Botanical Register/Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes/A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony/Epacridaceae

by John Lindley

Epacridaceæ.

These are numerous, but of little interest. The genera are all found in other parts of the continent, with the solitary exception of Conostephium,¹⁰¹ of which two species are known, both rather pretty shrubs, with one-sided spikes of flowers, whose pallid calyx strikingly contrasts with their conical corolla. The greater number of species belong to Leucopogon, but none of them deserve particular record. Of Lissanthe¹⁰² there is a noble form, already introduced and known in the gardens by the false name of Leucopogon verticillatus; it has fascicles of small flowers, but its quasi-verticillated leaves, with long intervals between them, give it a singular and handsome aspect. There are several Andersonias, among which A. aristata,¹⁰³ with dense heads of bearded flowers surrounded by an aristate calyx, is the most deserving notice. To these have to be added a small red-flowered Stenanthera,¹⁰⁴ a long-flowered rather handsome Styphelia,¹⁰⁵ and two very beautiful Lysinemas.¹⁰⁶

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⁽¹⁰¹⁾ Conostephium pendulum, Benth. and Conostephium minus; foliis linearibus margine revolutis apice sphacelatis, calycibus leviter pubescentibus.—Flowers not more than half the size of C. pendulum.

⁽¹⁰²⁾ Lissanthe verticillata; foliis glaberrimis oblongo-lanceolatis striatis subtus pallidis verticillatim approximatis internodiis subæqualibus, spicis axillaribus quasi fasciculatis laxis foliis brevioribus.

⁽¹⁰³⁾ Andersonia aristata; foliis linearibus appressis acutis apice incurvis glabris, floribus capitatis, corollæ laciniis revolutis barbatis calyce aristato brevioribus.

⁽¹⁰⁴⁾ Stenanthera ciliata; foliis linearibus pungentibus ciliatis, bracteolis 4 striatis sepalisque apiculatis corolla brevioribus.

⁽¹⁰⁵⁾ Styphelia tenuifolia; foliis ovatis concavis aristatis serrulatis, tubo corollæ tenui longissimo intus nudo, ramulis subpubescentibus.

⁽¹⁰⁶⁾ Lysinema curvatum; ramulis tomentosis, foliis ovato-linearibus carinatis imbricatis leviter ciliatis apice incurvis, corollis arcuatis pentapetalis: unguibus apice cohærentibus intùs lanatis calyce longioribus, bracteis 25-30 margine lanatis.

⁽¹⁰⁷⁾ Lysinema spicatum; ramulis foliisque ovatis imbricatis carinatis glabris, floribus spicatis, bracteis foliaceis, corollis pentapetalis: unguibus longitudinaliter distinctis extus tomentosis.