From John Bufton   1893

[1893]¹

Notes on a specimen of Styphelia from Brown Mountain, Port Arthur,² compared with Styphelia collina

I have made a very careful examination of the specimen which you regard as S. collina and beg to submit result for your kind consideration.

The plant has a sturdy growth being stiff and woody in stem, height about 18 inches; bushy.

Leaf broadly-ovate, scarcely pointed, glabrous and shining above, thick, flat, very distinctly ribbed with 6 or 7 ribs or venules, all the lateral ones divided or bifurcated making 12-14 at margin, which is quite entire; leaves pointing upwards or nearly horizontal never lying up or down the stem.

Flower & fruit. Very small magnifying power does not enable me to speak positively on these; but flowers are comparatively few, densely cottony.

My plant agrees much better with your description of S. costata than with S. collina, and more nearly with Mr Spicer's brief description of S. Hookeri than with S. collina.

I enclose a specimen of S. collina for comparison and trust you will forgive my presumtion in requesting your further examination of the plant under consideration.

I also send specimen of Lepyrodia which occurs only in one place known to me. viz on Tasman Peninsula in white sand among bushes of Melaleuca squarrosa

With sincere regards

Yours ever

John Bufton

Lepyrodia

Melaleuca squarrosa

Styphelia collina

Styphelia costata

Styphelia Hookeri