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CALYTRIX glabra. 



Bare-leaved Calytrix. 



ICOSANDRIA MOtfOGTNIA. 



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Nat. ord. Myrti (recentihs Myrtaceje). Jussieugen. 822. 



CALYTRIX. Col. superus, tubo cylindraeeo, limbo Bipartite* lacicSt 

 aristatis persistentibus. Pet. 5 9 decidua* Slam, omnia (mpiils indefinite 

 rard decern) antherifera, decidua* Ovarium uoilocuJare, dispermum. Pe- 

 ricarphm (Achenopm) monospermum, indehiscens, exsuccum. Fruticcs 

 (Nvva Hollandia) ericoidei. Folia parca sapius angulata, *pnr$a 9 imbri- 

 cate) glanduloso+punctata, inpleruquepetiolataet sttpulis! sttaoei* Uberit 

 mintdis deciduis instructa* Florea (alU vel purpureij axiltart$ f soliteriii 

 hibracttatU bracteis membranaceis 9 carinati$ t persistentibus. bast emmtit* 

 Brown MSS. 



Broxxm MSS. 



glabra 



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A genus instituted by M. Labillardiere, but promulgated 

 with a definition so vague and general, that the name is 

 almost the only accession to science. Nor has our author 

 been more successful in the description of his only species 

 or in the figure he has given us from the dried plant; for, 

 with all the attention we could use to ascertain whether 

 his plant is specifically the same with the present or not, 

 the point still remains so great a puzzle with us, that we 

 have thought it safest to give no opinion on the subject. 



The generic character, now offered, is from the pen of 

 Mr. Brown, and has been framed with the accustomed skill 

 and foresight of that learned naturalist with a view to the 

 cluster of confining genera from the same regions,, which 

 will be found near it in the concluding volume of his Pro- 

 droraus of the Flora of New Holland. 



Achenium implying an indehiscent originally one-seeded 

 seedvessel, while that of the present genus though eventu- 

 ally one-seeded, having been found by Mr. Brown to ori- 

 ginate in a germen with two ovula, one of which proves 

 constantly abortive, he has thought it advisable \o suggest 

 Achenopsis as a more precise denomination for this sort of 

 seedvessel. 



