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sessilia, 1-13" longa, decidua. Filamenta apice in nodum sub- 
ovatum inerassata. Anther: pallidz, latiores quam longze, loculis 
longitudinaliter coneretis. Capsula fere semiovata, tubo calycis 
pene zxquialta, vertice plana. Semina circiter 1^ longa, subovato- 
trigona, subtilissime reticulata. Embryo uncinato-clavatus; coty- 
ledones ovales, perminutze, ad radieule partem infractam arcte 
appressa. 
Planta occidentalis hue procul dubio pertinens ostendit folia 
fere mutica, peduneulos omnes bi- v. tripedicellatos, calycis lobos 
paulo longiores, filamenta vix incrassata. 
Beckea virgata. 
Andr. Bot, Rep. t. 589; Colla, Hort. Ripol. 6; Loddig. Bot. Cabin. t. 341; 
Bot. Magaz. t. 2197 ; Loisl. Herbier de l'Amat. t. ?78; Harmogia virgata, 
Schauer, in Linnza, xvii. 238; Camphoromyrtus pluriflora, F. M. in 
'Transact. Vict. Inst. i. 123. 
Elata, foliis longis lineari- v. oblongo-lanceolatis integerrimis 
patentibus acutis muticis rarius obtusiusculis, pedunculo umbellam 
2—9-floram gerente, pedicellis pedunculo zquilongis v. sspe bre- 
vioribus calycem subzquantibus v. frequenter eo bis v. aliquoties 
longioribus, bracteolis ad basin umbellz subulato- et cymbeo-semi- 
lanceolatis deciduis, calycis tubo subeampanulato, lobis fere semi- 
orbieulàtis corniculatis corolla fere ter brevioribus, staminibus 
8-15 raro 5-7, filamentis anthera parum v. duplo passim triplo 
longioribus, antherarum glandula dorsali crassiuseula, germine 
3-loculato, loculis plurigemmulatis, stylo brevi v. brevissimo, stig- 
mate peltato, capsula fere hemisphzrica, valvis demum breviter 
exsertis, seminibus angulatis. ; 
Ad ripas fluviorum et amnium silvaticorum a rivo Tambo per 
Australiam orientalem usque ad circulum eapricornu. 
Frutex 4-12', satis amplus, rarius paucipedalis et diffusus, ra- 
rissime omnino depressus. Folia 3—14" longa, 3-13" lata, chartacea, 
brevissime petiolata, pellucenti-punctata, uninervia, nonnunquam 
nervulis duabus lateralibus debilibus pereursa, Pedunculi 2-10^ 
longi. Pedicelli 1-4" metientes. Bracteole ad summum 3" longee. 
Calyees floriferi 1" paulo longiores, Petala alba, orbicularia, bre- 
vissime unguiculata, 1-13" metientia. Anthercw cordato- v. renato- 
rotundz, rima arcuata dehiscentes. Capsula circiter sesquilinearis. 
Semina compresso-trigona, pene semirotunda, fuscescentia, i-i 
longa. 
B. parvula fide iconis Labill. (Sert. Austr: Caled. t. 61) forsan 
tam Leptospermo virgato Forsteri quam nostre stirpt conspecifica 
est ; sed plantam Neo-Caledonicam comparare mihi hactenus deerat 
occasio. Persimilem speciem (B. umbellatam) in terra Arnhemica 
raram juxta Victoris fluvium reperi, cujus specimina tantummodo 
in herbario Kewensi exstant. 
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