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414 to obovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acute or acuminate or almost pungent, rarely obtuse, sessile, glabrous, 3–7-nerved; margins minutely denticulate or ciliolate. Flowers minute, greenish-white, in 6–12-flowered axillary or terminal drooping spikes shorter or longer than the leaves. Bracts and calyx-lobes obtuse, striate, margins ciliolate. Corolla-lobes ovate-triangular, acute. Drupe small, ⅛–⅙ in. long, oblong, red.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 408; Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 164; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 177. L. brevibarbis, ''Stch. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc.'' xxxii. (1859) i. 14. Epacris fasciculata, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 72.

2. L. Richei, R. Br. Prodr. 541.—A slender erect muchbranched shrub 4–6 ft. high or more; branches glabrous or slightly puberulous, often fascicled. Leaves ½–1 in. long, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed to a sessile base, convex, glaucous beneath, with 3–5 faint nerves; margins recurved. Flowers small, ⅛ in. diam, white, in subterminal short and dense many-flowered spikes. Bracts striate, barely half the length of the calyx. Calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube short, not equalling the calyx; lobes linear-oblong, densely bearded within. Drupe broadly ovoid, 3–5-celled.—''F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 45; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 735; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iv. 186.

3. L. Fraseri, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 409.—A small shrubby plant 2–6 in. high, rarely more, branching from the base; branches decumbent below, erect or ascending above, often curved, leafy, glabrous or minutely puberulous towards the tips. Leaves erect, close-set, imbricating, ⅕–⅓ in. long, obovate-oblong or linear-oblong, suddenly contracted into a fine rigid pungent point, glabrous and shining above, finely nerved beneath, the nerves branching outwards; margins thin, scarious, cartilaginous, finely ciliolate. Flowers axillary and solitary, sessile, large for the size of the plant, ¼–½ in. long, sweet-scented. Bracts minute, broad, apiculate. Calyx-lobes acute. Corolla-tube cylindrical, more than twice as long as the calyx; lobes short, acute, densely bearded within. Drupe large, ⅓ in. long or more, broadly oblong, yellowish-orange.—Hook.