- Thryptomene.] XLVIII. MYRTACEA, 59 
or rarely 3 lines long. Flowers axillary, on very short pedicels. Bracteoles 
concave, keeled, very deciduous. Calyx-tube turbinate, 10-ribbed, almost 
entirely adnate, 1. to 12 line | ug ; lobes ading to nearly 3 lines 
diameter. Petals about as long as the calyx-lobes, very broad, connivent. 
Stamens 10, inserted within the margin of i filaments filiform, 
much longer than the anthers; anther-cells nearly globular, furrowed, open- 
ing in pores or short slits in the furrows ; connective-gland at least half 
as large as the cells, Ovules 4 or 6, on a short excentrical placenta at the 
base of a small cavity near the top of the calyx-tube. Style short with a 
broad stigma.— Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. 81. t. 6 À. 
W. Australia. E. of New York, J. S. Roe; Phillips range and Salt river, Mazwell. 
5 l 
spreading, linear, semiterete or concave, slightly thickened upwards, with fine 
8 
to little more than 1 line diameter. Petals not longer, connivent. Stamens 
all fallen away from the specimens.  Endocarp crustaceous, containing 2 
hemispherical seeds, or 1 nearly globular and the other small and abortive. 
w. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. Suppl. n. 24. 
4. T. prolifera, Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1862, ii. 324. Branches nume- 
rous, erect and slender. Leaves erect or slightly spreading, linear or linear- 
oblong, obtuse or with a short recurved point, 1 to 2 lines long. owers 
. 91 very short pedicels in the upper axils, usually forming a small tuft at the 
h “ia the young shoots, Bracteoles small, obovate, concave, narrowed at 
e 
anther- 
n" globular, divaricate ; connective-gland small. Ovary readily separating 
rom the calyx-tube, with 4 ovules on a small erect basal placenta. 
W. Australia. 
Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 62. 
b Er saxicola, Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 102. Erect with virgate 
zb attaining 3 or 4 ft. (rarely diffuse or prostrate D). Leaves obovate- 
1 d flat, With the midrib scarcely conspicuous, obtuse or slightly acute, 
d lines long. Flowers small, on slender pedicels of 1 to 13 lines in 
lon Tiet axils, _Bracteoles lanceolate, very deciduous. Calyx-tube not 3 line 
as ‘urbinate, irregularly 10-ribbed, with the ribs more or less wrinkled, or 
réel — e without distinguishable ribs, the free part very short and 
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road 
e long, connivent. Stamens 10; filaments short; anther-cells 
wed, opening in pores or short slits. small, near 
Usually "ur Beie with 2 ovules on a short basal placenta. Seeds 
@ saxicola, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3160; Astrea sari- 
(Mata. ree z 60; . e 
3 329 (but SCH Linnea, xvii. 239; Eremopyxis camphorata, Baill. Adans: ii 
“SSM. iv, 75 
Becken camphorata, R. Br.); Scholizia decandra, F. Muell. ` 
