FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS. 
Orprr XLVIII. MYRTACEZE. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary at the base or up to the insertion of the 
stamens; limb more or less divided eA to the base) into 4 or 5, very 
rarel 3 or. more than 5, lobes or teeth, or re to a narrow Kate, or en- 
tirely wanting; lobes usually imbricate or open in the b Es Petals usually 
as many as Bus Med: uch imbricate he bud, the external one 
inserted in one or several rows on a disk, either thin and lining the calyx 
tube above the ovary and Se a thickened ring at its orifice, or thicker 
and forming a ring close round big psg of the ovary ; filaments free or 
buen united into a ring or tu e base, or into as many bundles as there. 
calyx-lobes ; anthers 2- celled, ite or SÉ e by the base, the cells 
opu in äere slits, or rarely in terminal pores. Ovary inferior or 
rarely almost superior, but enclosed in the calyx-tube, sometimes 1-celled, 
with a Ge attached to the base or adnate to one side, more frequently 2- 
or more celled, with the placentas in the inner angle of each cell, very rarely 
. l-eelled, with 2 parietal placentas. Style simple, “with a small or a capitate 
| or peltate, very rarely lobed stigma. Ovules 2 or more to each placenta, in 2 
. or more rows, or very rarely solitary, erect pendulous or laterally attached, 
anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit inferior, adnate to the calys-tube, and 
crowned by the persistent limb, or marked by its scar when deciduous, or 
- dons, or with thick fleshy distinet or consolidated dores and an exceed- 
. ingly short radicle, or rarely apparently homogeneous, the cotyledons incon- 
