Ferticordia. | XLVII. MYRTACEX. 29 
often exceeding the petals ; anthers globular, 2-porose, with a minute scale- 
like appendage to the small connective ; staminodia lanceolate-subulate, 
entire. Style rather short, glabrous; stigma capitate. Ovules 2.—V. calli- 
tricha, Meisen, in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 39. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 27; Murchison river, Drummond, 6t? Coll. 
n. 48; Oldfield. 
26. V. Le i. Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 99. Slender, erect, and 
slightly branched, usually from 1 to 1} ft. high. Leaves mostly in distant 
pairs, linear-oblong or falcate, laterally compressed or triquetrous, obtuse or 
mucronate, 3 to 4 lines long, the upper ones near the flowers not half so long, 
oblong or almost ovate and concave. Flowers rather small, on pedicels of 1 
-to 2 lines, few in small compact terminal corymbs, or in more luxuriant spe- 
cimens axillary below the ends of the loosely corymbose upper branches. 
Calyx-tube 13 lines long, the adnate part shortly villous.at the base, the free 
part prominently 10-ribbed and glabrous ; primary lobes 5, spreading, deeply 
divided into about 5 subulate lobes, with several long cilia between them, 5 
accessory outer ones closely reflexed on the tube and turned up from its base, 
thin and transparent, deeply divided into numerous cilia, Petals ovate, very 
thin, irregularly lobed or ciliate at the end, inserted near the top of the 
staminal tube. Stamens united in a broad short tube; anthers globular, 2- 
porose, with a slightly-thickened connective; staminodia lanceolate-subulate, . 
slightly glandular. Style shortly exserted, incurved towards the end and 
bearded at the bend. Ovules 2. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 15; Molloy's Plains, Sussex district, Preiss, x. 166. 
SECTION 2. CarocaLypra.—Anthers ovoid or oblong, with parallel cells 
adnate to a more or less thickened connective, and opening im longitudinal 
slits. Ovules several, usually 8 or 10, in 2 rows on an obliquely p 
rarely stalk-like placenta. 
This section, with the anthers and ovary of Cham«elaucium, is only distinguished from » 
by the calyx. I have adopted Schaner’s name for it, although somewhat differently limited. 
A. Calyx-lobes 5, spreading, without reflexed accessory lobes or herbaceous ` 
appendages, Racemes short, mostly terminal, almost cory mbose. Leaves 
ar-triquetrous or semiterete. : 
The iwo species here inserted have not the herbaceons appendages to the ealyx which 
Characterize the rest of tho section, and in inflorescence they show an approach to etse 
Cordia, but the anthers and some other points indicate a closer affinity with Catocalypta. 
y V. Cunninghamii, Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. 55. A tall erect shrub. 
Leaves linear, triquetrous or concave, obtuse or mucronate, mostly 2 in. but 
Sometimes 3 in. long. Flowers on pedicels of about 4 to 2 in. in the upper 
Spreading to 4 in. diameter, each one deeply divided into long digitate pecti- 
hate-ciliatedobes, the lateral ones reflexed on the tube, but no accessory lobes. 
Petals much shorter than the calyx-lobes, ovate, fringed with irregular teeth. 
stamens. shortly united above the calyx ; anther-cells parallel, opening longi- 
SN tudinally, adnate to a connectivum, hiai at the end into a small eshy 
