478 ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  Metrosideros, 
Calyx saucer-shaped, four, rarely five-toothed. Petals - 
four, seldom five, sessile, round, expanding. Filaments 
from twenty to twenty-five, much longer than the petals 
of the same greenish yellow colour, and inserted with 
them intoa rim round the inside of the calyx, at some 
distance from the four-lobed germ. Anthers ovate. Germ 
half above the bottom of the calyx; this part is evidently 
four-lobed,and a section thereof ex poses fourdistinct cells, 
with numerous ovula in each, inserted on a projecting re- 
ceptacle, which is longitudinally attached to the axis, 
Style rather longer than the stamens. Stigma simple, 
rather acute, witha perforation at the very point, Cap- 
sule nearly globular, the size of a pea, two-thirds above the 
calyx, four-celled, four-valved, Seeds numerous, angus 
lar. | 4 
2. M. comosa. R. 
_ Leaves alternate, sessile, narrow-lanceolate, attenuat- 
ed to both ends, mucronate, smooth, rigid, with the mat- 
gins entire and thickened. Flowers lateral, crowded into 
a cylindrical trifid spike. Calycine segments semicireu- 
lar and smooth, as are also the round subsessile petals 
re concave. v6 
_ A native of the Moluccas, 
3. M. suberosa. R. z 
Bark of even the young shoots cracked and Bie . 
Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, smooth. Lebel 
‘lateral. 
_ A native of the Sfobehode: is 
- Branéhlets. covered with deeply cracked ‘corky bark. 
Leaves opposite, subsessile, broad-lanceolate, entire, tay 
per, obtuse-pointed, firm and polished on. both sides, {10 
__Six to seven inches long and two broad. Umbellets from 
the old axills below the leaves, sessile. Pedicels cla- 
vate, smooth, one-flowered, which with the seen 
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