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 into a 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 exposes 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, with a 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, angu- 

 lar. 



2. M. comosa. R. 



Leaves alternate, sessile, narrow-lanceolate, attenuat- 

 ed to both ends, mucronate, smooth, rigid, with the mar- 

 gins entire and thickened. Flowers lateral, crowded into 

 a cylindrical trifid spike. Calycine segments semicircu- 

 lar and smooth, as are also the round subsessile petals. 

 Stigma concave. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



3. M. snherosa. R. 



Bark of even the young shoots cracked and corky. 

 Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, smooth. Umbellets 

 lateral. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



Braitchlets covered with deeply cracked corky bark. 

 Leaves opposite, subsessile, broad-lanceolate, entire, ta- 

 per, obtuse-pointed, firm and polished on both sides, from 

 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 germ and ca- 



