Beckea.] XLVIH: MYRTACEAX. ` 79 
but otherwise Y —Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 142; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 66 
B. mierantha, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 309, not of DC.; B. utilis, n 
Muell.; Miq. iu Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 150; Tetrapora Gunniana, Miq. l. c. 
N.S. së eti Mitchell, Beck 
Victoria, in boggy places i in ake Australian Alps, F. Mu 
Tasmania. Geht of Table Mountain, R. Brown ; abundant in ese places, J. D. e 
a! ‘latifolia, Leaves ovate-oblong, 3 to 4 lines long. Baw-Baw Mountains, E 
15. B. diosmifolia, Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 298. t. 13. Erect 
or mw. and much branched, from a thick woody stock. Leaves linear, 
narrow, ong, or somewhat cuneate, concave or semiterete, obtuse or 
A more or less denticulate-ciliate, 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers 
nearly sessile and solitary in the upper axils. Praeiene obovate- cuneate, 
concave, as long as the calyx-tube, very deciduous. Calyx-tube turbinate, 
about u lines iei lobes ovate, denticulate- ciliate. Petals about 1 line | 
eter. Stamens 7 to 10, none opposite the centre of the petals; fila- 
ments filiform; a ge cella parallel, opening longitudinally; connective- 
gland globular. pg small, 2-celled, with about 4 ovules in each cell.— 
DC. Prod. iii, 230; F. Muell. eeh 9. 
PN. S. Wales. P ort Jackson, R. Bro E Brees and others; Paramatta, 4 
; Woolls—In all the owes là of Woolls's specimens, the ovary w 
ham 
in a monstrons state, with - ET. all Maien dk with several more or less perfect ger 
mens on the w poses f 
2! 
Ml. Date rem from a thick woody base, slender, 1 to 2 fi [o 
: "md 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, on pedicels at 
zs we as long as the ealyx-tube, with 2 small very fugacious bracteoles at the 
Calyx-tube _turbinate, under 1 geg Jong, tapering into the pedicel ; 
smania, Abundant on Loddon Plains, on the road to Macquarrie Harbour; top of : 
Rocky Cape > 
à > » Gunn,—This plant is very nearly allied to the narrow-leaved forms of B. 
| wi 1 B. arbus uscula, R. Br. Herb. A slender, out bushy, heath-like 
ey, exceeding 6 in., with very numerous filiform branches, quite 
Just xl c inearterete c or esee et 1 Ca 2 lines 
ce 
Au 
i ls opening longitudinally. Ovary 2- +; 
na King George’s Sound, R. Brown. E do not feel certain o! aving 
tocantis, ascertained the recti ‘of the ovary, but the species is s ve to B. lep 
» although t the excessive minuteness of the flowers gives it a very d aspect. 
