76 XLVIII. MYRTACEA. [ Becken, 
cells distinct, parallel, and opening longitudinally to the geg: Ovary 3- 
celled. Flowers ee or nearly sessile, solitary in eac 
n DO. Prod. iii. 230. Prostrate or CH with 
7. B. diffusa, Sie 
slender branches, often Mier a considerable length. Leaves linear, flat, 
or thick and concave, smooth or striate, acute or almost bein from 
or even 5 lines long. Flowers solitary, on ies eenz pedicels of 2 or 
3 lines, with a small bract at the base and a pair of bracteoles mia i about 
the middle. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate or Linnie areca, at least 14 lines 
diameter. Stamens 10; filaments filiform or slightly dilated, especially those 
a the petals, but ‘much less so than in the Rinzias ; anther-cells dis- 
nct and parallel, with a rather large obovoid-globular soi: 
Se convex, 3-celled, with 3 or 4 ovules in e cell; style very shortly 
immersed. Capsule half-superior. Seeds usually 2 in each cell, collateral, 
rather large, with a lateral hilum; testa crustaceous. Embryo with the 
slender cotyledonar end transversely echo or twisted.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.. 
i. 142; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 67; B. alpina, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Rep 
ii. 178; B. thymifolia, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 284, and in Fl. Tasm 
1 
41; B. affinis and B. prostrata, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 284; psc | 
myrtus diffusa, E. alpina, and E. thymifolia, Schau. in Linnea, xvii. 239; 
Euryomyrtus parviflora and E. Stuartiana, F. Muell.; Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. 1 
Arch. iv. 149. 3 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown ; Sieber, n. 276, and 
rs. 
$ interes Alpine and subalpine heights, Mounts William, Buller, Barkly, Liger, ete. 
ue 
T ia. Derwent river and Port Dalrymple, R. Brown. —Abundant on heaths, es- 
Mire. on river banks, J. D. Hooker. 
eg Sch distinguished by J. D. Hooker as species, are now s dinh y a nume. i 
ie" of dee jate specimens 8 to run so much into each other as not to be easily separablea$ — | 
— 
keier 1 line FG lobes ced obtuse, nearly as ed s the "n wid i 
petal-like "poa. Petals twice as long as the SEM: ag Stamens 10; 
filaments all EN m; heiteg parallel, Langs eid with con- 1 
Wales. Pins of the Darling and Murrumbidgee, F. Mueller (1 have not 1 
N. 
. seen the specimens). 
On the pu and in the Wimmera district, F. Mueller and others 
s. dy 
a and others; Kangaroo Islan 
3 in pis intervals. 
crassifo “l Lindl. in Mitch. Three vergi Low and l 
rts Des EE SS St. Vincent? s Gulfs to the Murray, SS 
» Water. 
) icosandra, F. Muell. Stráni aal 1 opposite each petal, and 2 or sometimes | 
