66 XLVIII. MYRTACEA. . Micromyrtus. 
long as the petals. Stamens 5, opposite the petals. Ovary l- celled witha | 
cluster of 6 to 8 ovules suspended from the top of the cavity on a filiform 
placenta arising from the base as in M. microphylla. egenen leptocalys, 
F. Muell. Fragm i. 30 
Queensland. Near Mount Pluto, Mitchell. 
TRIBE Il. LePTOSPERMEX. pde divided into 2 to 5 or more cells. 
Fruit dry, capsular, opening at the top loculicidally in as many valves as 
cells, or very rarely 1- or 2-seeded and indehiscent. 
xac 1. BÆCKEÆÆ.— Leaves — usually small. Flowers Ve i 
all cyme um 
floral leaves reduced to bracts. Stamens definite, or if indefinite usually in a | 
single row, free or united at the base in a ring, or into elusters alternating 
with the petals (not opposite the petals as in other glee: and usually | 
shorter than the petals. Ovules usually in 2 rows. Em with a thie 
radicle, produced at the opposite end into a PM Sege piis or into à 
short point with very small, often minute cotyledon 
The most constant character of this subtribe is — ni — from the 
in. which, so far as known, the cotyledons are always min whilst in the following sub- 
where the embryo has not yet -been observed. nerally e i also the subtribe is 
distinguished by €— leaves, aud the stamens Ce than the petals, but to these there | 
are a few exception E 
12. SCHOLTZIA, Schau. 
"e MATT NGA 
m short and broad or reduced to a narrow rin we: lobes 5, spreading, petal- 
rarely 
the disk, re? —— the centre of the petals usually wanting, all free, | 
deciduous; filaments filiform or slightly dilated ; anther-cells either united 
; and opening in GE res, or distinct owed: nd opening into p 
5 * Ovary ir d 
rior, flat-topped or slightly convex, with a tubular depression in the cent. 
round the style, 2- or rarely 3-cell lled, with 2 superposed ovules or rarely lor 
3 ovules in each cell, attached to a small axile placenta ; style filiform, shot 
glabrous, with a truncate or capitate stigma. Capsule adnate to the e 
dna up against one side and m more or less divided into 2 cotyledo 
peii shrubs, with the habit of Backea. Leaves, opposite, $ 
entire or minutely denticulate-ciliate.. Flowers small, white or 9 = 
