Micromyrtus. | XLVII. MYRTACEX. . 65 
the petals; filaments very short; anther-cells globular, distinct, opening in 
‘Short parallel or diverging slits. Ovules 2. mbryo with the slender 
‘#lobed portion as long as the thick radicular end. 
. W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. Suppl. n. 23. 
Ovules 4, 
pended in pairs from the top of the cavity. Embryo with the slender 
half as long as the thick radicular end and deeply 2-lobed.— Jméri- 
n..2 ciata, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 259 ; Stereoxylon ciliatum, Poir. 
Jit. Suppl. v. 247; Escallonia ciliata, Roem. and Schult. Syst. v. 329; 
ea microphylla, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 149, DC. Prod. iii. 230, 
F. Muell. Fragm. i, 30; B. plicata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 30; Thryptomene 
"ët, F. Muell. Fragm, iv. 63. — : oc 
_ N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 282, and 
ers; northward to Hunter’s River, Herb. Muellér; and southward to Argyle county, 
; and probably to the Victorian frontier. 
ky declivities of the rampians and in the deserts of the Murray and 
rs. 
E Calyx-tu narrow, scarcely above $ line long, prominently 5-ribbed ; 
E E SCH orbicular, petal-like, minutely ciliate. Petals orbicular, rather 
` ie line diameter. Stamens 5, opposite the petals, with the anthers 
1 - : microphylla, Ovules 2, collaterally suspended from the top of the 
| Al Fruit not seen.— Thryptomene plicata, var. minutiffora, F. Muell. 
