24 XLVIII. MYRTACER. Gë 
terete or triquetrous, and } to 1 in. long, to oblong or obovate, concave or 
keeled, and 2 to 3 lines long, usually thick, obtuse or mucronulate, crowded 
on the short lateral ec: ts. Flowers ye low, on slender pedicels, in a rather 
loose, terminal leafy corymb. — Bracteoles Liege connate at the base. 
Calys-tube g ée bray turbinate ; primary lobes 5, often spreading to 
a diam of 3 i in., but sometimes smaller, each deeply divided into 5 to 9 
digitate, bubo: Free ciliate, or plumose lobes. Petals deeply divided 
into 7 to 11 or even more digitate, | oe entire lobes. Stamens slightly ` 
united at the base ; anthers givbose, 2-porose, the connective thickened into 
a concave or hooded appendage, much Jonigér than the cells, with 2 rn- 
like points turned down over them ; staminodia lanceolate or o ke: ne" 
like, more or less toothed or fringed, Gage outside the stamens, Style 
subulate glabrous. Ovules 2. Schau, Myrt. Xeroc. 75 ; Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 
. 145. P. heliantha, Lindl. Swan Riv. ATE: ET nobilis, Meissn. in Journ 
Linn. Soc. 1. 39. 
us 
W. River, Drummond, e Coll. ; Murchison river and Irwin river, 
ae Bay, Oldfield, Drini 6th Coll. n. 47. 
antha, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 195. Very nearly 
eme H (ëmmer usually looser, the lowes ewer an tather lors 
yet larger than in 7. Preissi. Anthers with the connective erect and pro- 
jecting beyond the cells, larger than in V. Preissii and in F. acerosa, but not 
2-horned, as in 7. grandiflora ; staminodia oblong-lnceohte petal-like and 
pe ahi outside the stamens, entire or slightly othed.—Schau. Mert 
Xero , and in Pl. Preiss. i. 102; F. Gilbertii, "Sen in Bull. Mose. 1847, 
i. ; 
W. Australia. In the interior, Roe, Preiss, n. 178, Gilbert ; Oldfield Range, Maz- — 
well. The specimeus are none of them very satisfactory. : 
15. v. Preissii, Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 101. An atest sach of 1 to 
l} ft. Stem-leaves linet, semiterete or triquetrous, acute or mucronate, 
rarely above 4 in. long , usually densely crowded on the short lateral branches, 
r ones below the worm often more distant, those in the corymb 
shorter and lanceolate, or in some specimens small, ovate or even orbicular, 
thick and concave. Flowers velis on slender pedicels, in ien cd terminal 
bas y 
r D 
turbinate, 10-ribbed, glabrous ; primary lobes 5, edid" da i ee ter of 
about 4 lines, Kaes, divided into 7 or 9 subulate, raheem or 
plumose lobes. Petals deeply divided into 7 to 11 digitate, subulate, entire 
lobes, about as lak as the calyx. Stamens very shortly united ; anthers 
n fonce Mad. ME the cells ; staminodia oblong, petal- 
ike, entire, connivent outside t e deem = &lif 1 OA 
2.—F. Eudlicheriana, Schau. in Pl. Prei n iform, glabrous. 
WV. Australia. Between EU George's tir i s Ri S : 
(4th Coll. ?) n. 65, 5th Coll. n. 113, A. C egory ; et: wets Mafels, deenen 
Young river, Maxwell. ` "The species is very near on the one h 
aud to V. chrysantha, but 
with much smaller densely corymbose flowers, and on the other to F. acerosa but wi ith per- 
fectly entire stamin d 
