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17. T. oligandra, F. Muell. Fragm.i.ll. Arborescent, with numerous 
slender rigid branchiets. Leaves spreading, broadly ovate or obovate, flat 
. with the midrib and often the primary veins conspicuous underneath, very 
ën 2 to 3 lines long. owers almost sessile, solitary or 2 or 3 together 
| each axil along the branchlets. Bracteoles orbicular, small. Calyx-tube 
Bios prominently 10-ribbed ; lobes petal-like, spreading to about à lines 
diameter. Petals rather shorter than the calyx-lobes, connivent. mens 
5 ; anther-cells globular, distinct, furrowed, opening in short slits ; connec- 
tive-gland prominent. Ovules 2, on a lateral almost basal placenta in a small 
cavity near the top of the calyx-tube 
OA nes. ot = Gulf of f Carpentaria R. Bro 
Queen and. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. E In sandy table- 
. land on the es F, ra KS dm wë M*Gillivray. 
Var. (?) parviflora, F. Muell. Leaves linear-oblong or cuneate, erect or Big at the 
top, obtuse or mucronulate, 1 to 2 lines lon ng, concave above, convex underneath, without any 
Prominent midrib. Flowers very small, nearly sessile and solitary in the eran axils. Brac- 
teoles Zeien very deciduous, Gei tube scarcely $ line long, the flowers otherwise as in 
e 
T. oli 
f Australia. Barren places, Gilbert river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. h 
Ke like that of some Epacridee, and the very small flowers seem almost sufficiet to 
racterize a distinct species. 
11. MICROMYRTUS, Benth. 
Calyx-tube cylindrical or turbinate, 5- or lO-ribbed; lobes "e petal- | 
like Or scarious, persistent, sometimes reduced to a narrow or scarcely dis- 
tinguishable border. Toast gie or orbicular, deciduous or oo pr: 
distinct, almost gebai, opening in 2 KE or divaricate slits. 
Ovary adnate, 1 -celled ; style short, filiform, glabrous, with a capitate stigma ; 
ovules 2, or rarely 4 to 8, collaterally attached at or near the summit of a 
H E situer from the Ww to the top of the cavity. Fruit 
eases i 
1 ns also, when 5, are Due on a alternate with oen, aii the fruit 
ME hardened endoca ‘he ea able in many species of 
- Petals 
Tab Gitar ` Ki 
lyx-limb r reduced to y narrow SS? i M. elobata. 
E wie e gr pota dese not ps as Qm as the ‘petals . 2. M. racemosa. 
S t leet o- 
Spey as the petals obovate, — Op: DOM. M. Ir imbricata. 
