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Metrosideros. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 477 
ceolate. Flowers solitary, with two bractes below the ca- 
| iy. 
A native of the Moluccas. It has the habit of a Myr- 
tus, but from the capsule which is fromeight to ten-celled, 
I conclude it is not of that family. The stamina are very 
numerous, the length of the oval petal. The stigma is 
trancate, not capitate. The floral leaves are so small, and 
the flowers so numerous toward the end of the branchlets, 
as to appear like a panicle, 
METROSIDEROS. Schreb. gen. n. 791. © 
Calyx four or five-cleft, semisupera. Petals four or 
five. Stamina very long, standing out. Stigma simple. 
Capsule three or four-celled. — 
1. M. vera. R. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, polished. Co- 
rymbs axillary, brachiate, shorter than the leaves. Ca- 
lyx four-toothed. 
Metrosideros vera. Rumph. Amb. 3. t. 7. 
Rumphius describes it to be a tree of great size, growing 
in the forests of Amboyna, and the other Molucca Islands- 
It was introduced from the former place into the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta in 1801, andin July 1804, the larg- 
est plants blossomed for the first time, when only aboat 
seven feet high. It has a slender trunk, smooth bark, and 
few branches. No part of the tree, so far as I have yet 
observed, possesses any kind of fragrance. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, firm, smooth, 
‘polished, perfectly entire, rather acute, with small and 
parallel veins, about six inches long, and from two 
to three ‘broad. Corymbs axillary, solitary, shorter 
than the leaves, brachiate, bearing a few pretty large, 
Pale greenish white inodorous flowers ; pedicels flat- 
tened ~ Bractes ‘oblong, or lanceolate, smooth, acute. 
