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Lil. MY 



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myrtace:^. (J. '^, Duthie.) 



[Leftospermum, 



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2. XlEPTOSPZniMVM, Forst 



...-../T- 



, ..-;». ^■. 



Leaves alternate, 



Shrubs, rarely small trees, glabrous or silky-pubescent. ^ -i ^ x, 



entire, rigid, with 1-3 nerves or nerveless. Floxvers solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, or 2-3 together at the ends of the branches, rarely peduncled, sometimea 

 polygamous ; bracts broad, scarious, often imbricate, the lower ones soon famng 

 off. Calyx-tube broadly campanulate or turbinate, adnate to the ovary below, 

 the free upper part broad; lobes 6. Petals 5, spreading. Stamens cxi, in a 

 single series, not longer than the petals ; anthers versatile, their parallel cells 

 bursting longitudinally ; connective swollen, gland-like. Ovary i^J*^^^?* ?^ 

 ^inferior, enclosed in the calyx-tube, 5- or more-celled, rarely 3- or 4-celle(J ; 

 style filiform, inserted in a deep depression of the ovary, sometimes short, su^a' 

 capitate or peltate. Capsule usually exceeding the calyx-tube 

 dally from above. Seeds oo, linear or winged, often sterile ; emurvj^^*-^-- , 

 DisTRiB. Species upwards of 25, chiefly Australian, a few in New Zealand ana 

 New Caledonia. 



amboinense 



Mus 



S6c. 



silky on the young parts, leaves linear-lanceolate or obovate obtuse, ^^^J^ ^^ 

 sile or nearly so solitary terminal or axillary, ovary 5-celled. DC Prodr* ^ ' 

 229; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I pt. i. 404. L. flavescens, «m. in Trans, j 

 iii. 262; DC. Prodr. iii. 227; Sot. Mag. 2695; Benth. Fl. Austral 

 var. a. Macklottia amboinensis, Korth, in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. \. 196. 

 amboinensis. Humph. Herb. Amh. ii. 77. t. 18. 



■M)Tt 



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Malacca ; Griffith 



DisTRiB. Indian Archipelago, and from 



Queensland to Tasmania. ^ I 



A shrub. Leaves 1 in. and smaller, 1-3-nerved or the nerves indistinct, ^^^.^^ 

 or broadly oblong or even obovate. Flowers sometimes ^ in. across. Cali/:c ^^^^^ ^ 

 tube broadly campanulate ; lobes rather shorter than the tube. Anthers ^^^^*^^. r ^ 

 a purplish gland-like connective, Ova?^ glabrous, prominent above the calyx-i . 

 and with a central depression round the style. 



2. 

 obtiu 



javanlcum 



Mus 



ovary 5-cell< 



obtiU!e obscurely i^-nerved tipped with a deciduous mucro, ovary ^-^-- 

 L. floribundum, Jungh. Java i. 578. Macklottia lavanica, Korth. Ned. Jirui - 

 4rcA. (1847), 196. ^ 



MouLMEm; exposed rocks, alt. 5000 ft., ioJJ.— Distbib. Java, S^"^?^,^^ mi- hairs' 

 . A shrub, ^-1 ft. high. Leaves ^1 in. by J in., narro\«rly obovate vitli ^^^^.^^j^g 

 on the edges and beneath, midrib prominent beneath, lateral nerves soon ^^"_^j^ 

 upwards. Flowers about ^ in. across, few or soliUry, axillary. ^f^^:^"^f f^^e con- 

 obtuse, membranous, deciduous. Anthers attached to a dark-coloured S^^^^'j (^^ 

 nectiye. Stt/le about ^ in. ; stigma capitate. Capsule 5-celled, smooth, smaller 

 in MiqueVs specimens from Java. 



3. MSZiAXiZSUCA. Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. 



0i 



4xtbe_ 



Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire, ^^""^.^'7 ^acb 

 linear, tlat or subterete, 1-3-many-nerved. Floicers in heads or spiKc > 

 sessile in the axil of a floral leaf, S-merous ;. bracts deciduoos. YjAi?xoyi^'' 

 subglobose; lobes 5", imbricate or open. Petals 5, spreading, fifp petals 5 

 Stamens oo, more or less united at their bases into 5 bundles opposite^^JJ'^ r^^ 

 anthers versatile, the cells parallel and bursting longitudinally. 



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