60 XLVIII: MYRTACES, [Thryptomene, | 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, and eastward "arde Cape Riche, A. Cune — 
ningham ; scitis 5th Coll. n. 126; Oldfield, and others. 
6. T. Johnsonii, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 11. Erect and densely branched. 
Leaves obovate-orbicular, thick, with a prominent keel, obtuse or with 
small recurved e: rarely 1 line lon Flowers almost sessile in the upper 
axils. Bracteoles obovoid-orbicular, spreading, nearly flat, scarious, above 
1 line long. ‘Gals: tube ord SE 15-ribbed ; lobes We thin 
7. T. racemulosa, furcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1847, i. 156. Erect and 
bushy, with very numerous pem slender branches. Dii obovate, erect, 
or slightly spreading, thick and concave or keeled, obtuse, 1 to 14 lines long. 
Flowers on very short pleki in the upper axils. Bracteoles small, broad, 
concave, keeled, spreading, connate at the base. Calyx-tube hemispherical, 
eeled, very rugose and pitted; lobes spreading to 2 lines diameter 
somewhat “enlarged in fruit. Petals rather shorter than the calyx-lobes 
Auther-cells obovoid, divergent, deflexed, not furrowed, opening im small 
terminal pores ; connective small. vules 2, on a short basal placenta. 
Seeds 1 or 2 in a hard globular endocarp. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 58, 8rd Coll. n. 32. 
B. T, oo Benth. Much arces Leaves ovate, obovate 
at length hemis; herieal, rugose; lobes ovate or orbicular, minutely denticu- 
late or almost entire, rather rigid, at least half as long as the petals. Petals 
nearly 1} lines long, entire. Stamens 10 ; filaments s véry short ; anther-cells — 
obovoid, quite distinct, opening in terminal pores ; connective-gland small. 
les 2, on a short basal plae vend e to one side of the cavity.— 
Scholtzia NOM F. Muell. Fra v. 75. F 
ag ustralia, rehison river, ge, Se Very nearly allied to 7. wg: 
— : ases ei variety only, Ais th larger less imbricate leaves and larger flowers, 
uilyx-lobes usually larger in proportion to the petals. Som d a 
the 3rd Coll. n. 33, appear d to Mene. the two, E 
T. bzeckeacea, F. Muell. l. Fragm. iv. 65. A very densely branched — 
y brane 
ideis of l to 2 ft. Leaves obovate or oblong, ce imbricate and de — 
eussate on the branchlets, obtuse, rarely 1 line long. Flowers small in the 
upper axils, nearly sessile or the pedicels shorter than the leaves, usually below 
the ends of the branches. Bracteoles concave, keeled, green, with only the mar- 
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