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lile cymes or rarely umbels of 3 or more, or sometimes solitary on short 
 Wülay peduncles. Bracts at the e of the peduncles and pedicels or 
of the sessile calyces small and deciduo 3 
‘The genus is confined to Western rud It forms the passage, as it were, from 
| finplonene and Micromyrtus, on the one hand, to Beckea on the other. Some species 
Wi a m 
| from the sectio 
and in others the apparently incomplete dissepiment is an approach to the filiform 
— placenta of Micromyrtus, The prevalent cymose inflorescence gives most of the species 
` ) ifferent from either 
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broadly obovoid or dese the cells more or less united, 
in termin 
and opening 
Flowers T or nearly so in n the cyme, or within the bracts 
On the e. 
 Lewves closely sessile, orbicular-cordate or reniform. Cymes 
i rather loose «01. S, wberiftrora. 
i Leaves ee or almost thom boidel HARLEY at the WE 
GES ew-flowere 
=. Calys-tnbe ek or slightly r rag 
. Peluncles not exceeding the , 9- to 5-flowered. 
à; Diytesgnents ts entire. Reg about 20. Ovary 
2-celled . 9. S. obovata. 
Peduucles exceeding the lenves. xu 5 io 9 large flowers, 
Calyx-segments entire. Stamens 10-12. Oe Kei 3- 
celled 8. S. spathulata. 
Peduncles short, with 1 to 3 smal flowers. Calyx- 
seg- 
l P ments ciliate. Stamens under 10. Ovary 3-celled . 4. S. ciliata. 
; e exceeding the leaves, vith 1 to 3 small flowers. a 
nts entire. Ovary 3-celled. . 11. S. Drummondii. 
d'un Men ie pitted and rugose. Flowers. small e 
numerous in the cyme. Ovary 2-celled 5. 
mate linear linear. zs cS. . 12. S. A, 
ite in in pedunculate ‘umbels. 
tee mme cuneate, concave or keeled. Ovules 2 in each 6. S. umbellif 
Bhe +: . 6. S. umbellifera. 
Leaves mre emat, flat or nearly § so. Ovules solitary i in 
7. S. laxiflora. 
het iler de deeply furrowed i opening in slits, 
ug 
5 small, aan or RE 
ag i cymes,  Calyx-tube narrow-turbinate. 
m each cell. Stamens ` to 10 8. S. coget 
to 3-flowered, Calyx-tube broad. Stamens & 
not exceeding the leaves. Ovary 2-celled. 
d about i line diameter. Ovules usually solitary . parvifior Ce 
about line diameter. Ovules 2 in each cell. ek? S e un E 
denge St 3-celled with 2 ovules in each cell . . . ll. S. Drummondii. 
"er, Exe. abont 2 lines. ees, short, 
Stamens about 20 . > 12. S. teretifolia. 
mena ett Muell. CR iv. 14. Aa ger? 
reform, Y sessile, spreading or reflexed, orbicular-cordate or 
L. "um ‘obtuse, mostly 2 to 3 lines diameter, rigid and promi- 
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