g 4 
68 XLVIII. MYRTACEÆ. [Scholtzia. 
binate and under 1 line long in flower, at length ovoid-campanulate and 
nearly 14 lines long; segments not 3 as long as the petals. Petals deci- 
Ki 2-celled, GE 2 or rarely 3 ovules in each cell. Seed ovoid; testa 
crustaceous ; enh with the slender deeply 2-lobed neck not half as long 
as the thick Ais portion, and folded against it. | 
W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. 
2. S. obovata, Schau. in Linnea, xvii. 241, and in Pl. Preiss. i. 109. 
A rigid spreading or almost decumbent shrub of 1 to 2 ft., or when SC | 
twice that size. Leaves from obovate to oblong- euneate or almost rhom-| 
lanceolate, very fugacious. ^Calyx-tube hemispherical, smooth, about l; 
lines diameter; lobes petal-like, broad, half as long as the petals Petals 
about i lines erui mens about 20; anthers obcordate, the cells 
opening in small terminal pores, connective without any prominent gland. 
Ovary vien tee ii he contral depression not deep, 2-celled with 2 superpost 
ovules in eac m ce . Muell. Fragm. iv. 74; Beckea involucrata, Endl. it 
Peg Pen: 
ustralia. Swan River, Fraser, Preiss, n. 343, Drummond, n. 147, 2nd Coll.» 
76 am ir others ; Murchison river, Oldfiel eld. 
Beckea obovata, DC. P ce daier is referred by Schauer to this species 
oses given will rele cual v to several other em ví xps but from IK 
specimens in Herb. R. Br. it is ool peat the S. Jeptan : 
3. S. spathulata, Benth. Very near S. obovata, be independently d 
the stamens and ovary it is known at once by its ger pedun p e 
rather larger flowers. Leaves broadly Beete "much narr 
the base, erect or spreading, 2 to 3 lines long or rather more. SC 
ea cyme o i 
mens are fallen off. Ovary convex after Pea 3-celle d in all the flo oves 
examined, with Es rposed ovules in each cell. Malis spatiale : 
Turez. in Bull. Moi. 1862, ii. 324. 
W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 59. 
. S. ciliata, F. Muell. Fra ragm iv. 76. As spreading rouch-bre 
Eise? of about 4 Ce the e sometimes almost spinescent. Lea 
obovate to nearly orbicular, spreading or recurved at the top, thick, conc? 
obtuse, mostly about 1 line long, the upper ones often dentieulate ai e 
aring each 1 al sessi eo 
Bracts denticulate-ciliate. Calyx-tube rather broad, rugose; lo pÈ 
orbicular, ciliate, not half as — as the petals, and often decidut Pe e 
about 1 line diameter, deciduo Stamens 6 to 9; anthers broadly 0507 
date, the cells opening in term wë pores or short almost confluent s! 
Ovary 3-celled, with 2 — ovules in each cell. 
