2 XLVIIl. MYRTACEA. 
spicuous before germination. Abortive ovules in many capsular genera, en- 
larged without being fertilized, and simulating the seeds, but of a hard, nearly 
homogeneous, woody, or granular consistence.— Trees or shrubs, very rarely 
undershrubs, aves simple, entire or rarely obscurely crenate-toothed, 
opposite or less frequently alternate, more or less dotted in all but the Lecy- 
thidee, with small resinous glands, either gre or black and superficial, 
ften scarcely visible when the leaf is thick. Stipules none, or rarely very | 
minute and fugacious. Flowers solitary or in racemes panicles or cymes, - 
axillary or apparently terminal from the terminal bud not growing out till ` 
after the flowering is over. Bracts solitary at the bé of the peduncles, or — 
forming an imbricate involucre from the abortion of the lower flowers. Brac- 
teoles 2 at the base of or on the pedicel, sometimes very small or abortive, 
and often exceedingly deciduous. 
fleshy-fruited eer of the Order are widely spread over the Mop. jg both ofthe . 
New SEN the Old World, including many of the largest ue trees, n Australia, — 
paige limited to the tropics, a very fe? species extendin o N. e 2 ly one 
Victoria, The capsu sular genera are either SECH or ‘chiefly Australian ; four of the 
ones, represented by d'Be species in New Caledonia and the Indian Archipelago, one — 
emon, represen i i i 
mo ay 
peninsula, and in anomalous forms (perha aps not strictly congeners) to S. Africa and S. Ame- 
rica. Two of th 
e widest-spread genera, pole eua ‘aad Metrosideros, are also in New — 
Tare I, Chameelaucieze.—Ovary 1-celled, with a single placenta, EN, indehis- 
ect dry, with 1 or rarely "D seeds. Shrubs often heath-like. ` Leaves Flowers | 
solitary, or very lai 3 2 logethr i in the axils of the leaves or bracts, enia along the — 
branches, or forming a nal head. 5 
ens definite, in a Gi series, more or les$ united in a ring at 
Stamen 
of the head enlarged an 
Stamens 10, alternating with A pes stamin odia (very minute c or 
AIT kde n poi sees eee Darwinia and one of EN a). 
yx-lobes 5, su ‘ CV e, ANTHUS. 
T": broad, sens or shortly ciliol late. inge 
eum s globose or didymous, opening in terminal pores or 
rt slits. Style usually lo g e 
Aniber cl parallel, opening in longitudinal “alita. Style 
ar de se! : ee 10, deeply divided into subulate, Vuen or 
1, ACTINODIUM. 
2. DARWINIA, 
1 
6. CHAMÆLAUCIUM. | 
: 4. VERTICORDIA. 
Piin: Keen stami nodia. "Calyx: leben 1 Ke 5. PiLEANTHUS. 
Stamens inci without — numerous, m ‘if Da m regu- 
larly alternate or opposite to the calyx-lob. 
Calycloes on or ial} falling off with the upper portion 
f the sees e. gece? 2, on a filiform peis attached both to 
the b and s of the ov. 
GE terminating in ier bristle or rarely in a sees 
is E BE 2 e Š 7. CALYTHRIX. 
neate or retuse, no poin 8. Luorzkxa. 
Deem Bet, ec us. Ovules 2, the e placenta basal or ad- 
nate vary 
to one side of the 9. HomaLocaLyx. : 
