Beckea.} XLVIII. MYRTACER. 15 
and parallel, opening ID Ovary convex, but almost entirely in- 
am m with usually 3 ovules in each cell. Style shortly immersed. 
tralia. Sand csl ear Sore le Grand, Maxwell. Near B. Fumana, but 
. drag dienes in the foliage and ovary, the flowers in vs Gest specimen are of a 
rich pink, whilst in B. Fumana they appear to be white or near 
- 4. B. cordes Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. ii. sii: Small, slender, and 
diffuse or procumbent. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, flat with slightly re- 
curved margins, obtuse or rather acute, 1i to 3 lines long. Flowers soli- 
tary, on pedicels of 1 to 1 in., not aripulate, with a coloured. deciduous bract 
at the base. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, soon becoming hemispherical, 
tather above 1 line diameter; lobes broad, rather thick, with ship scarious 
minutely ciliate margins. Petals above 2 lines diameter. Stamens 10; fila- 
ments flat, those opposite the petals broader and péni ipn: ein the con- 
nective-gland in the notch, the others tapering and entire; anthers in front of 
the filament ; the cells distinct, parallel, and opening a ali Ov 
very convex, Bove. with 4 to 6 ovules in each cell on a small placenta; 
style fle shortly in im 
T astralis, 1 ond, n. 63, and 5th Coll. n, 125, or in some sets n. 121 ; near 
eu Bridge, Pl beet district, Cor . 2015. Si habit and foliage are nearly 
those of B, diffusa, but the stamens and ovary are differe 
5. Boo oxycoccoides, Benth. Branches RW or trailing. Leaves 
ovate or orbicular, thick, very convex with recurved margins, pe under 2 
les diam iameter, F owers pink, solitary, on pedicels of i tol not articu- 
He, with a coloured deciduous bract at the base. Calyx-t Rer very broadly 
turbinate, fully 2 lines diameter; lobes very short and broad, with scarious 
minutely ciliate margins. Petals fully 23 lines diameter. Stamens 10; 
‘ring at the end, with small globular con- 
ende, or those opposite the petals ra rather broader “and slightly 
nthers in front of the filament ; the cells distinct, parallel, and 
esa on nal Ova convex, d celled, with 10 to 12 or even more 
d. 
Australia, Seenen, 5th Coll. n. 120. 
ad. € ummondii, Benth. Branches apparently divaricate, elongated 
i s er rigid. Leaves linear, semiterete or eio pe Be rather thick, ob- 
G ic Alaa mostly 2 to 4 lines long. Flowe s rather large, solitary, 
DO vit pedicels with 2 small bracts at the base, or on short axillary branch- 
h lor? pairs of small — towards the base. Calyx-tube hemi- 
e Ji pe tal-like margins. Petals about 2 lines diameter. Stamens 15 
quite disti y packed in a single row ; filaments all flat and broad, but usually 
Y ict, those néi pposite ‘the centre of the petals the largest, all entire, 
, mall conn ective-gland ; anthers in front of the filaments; the cells 
i y 9 convex, 3-celled, 
each cell on a pone. placenta; style shortly immersed. 
, Bee, th Coll. n 
Evrvomyrrus.—Stamens 10 or more, of whi ich 5 opposite 
e petals; filaments filiform or very slightly flattened ; anther- 
hee, $ 
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