80 XLVIII. MYRTACER, [ Beckea. 
18. B. astarteoides, Benth. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., with elongated 
branches. Leaves linear, semiterete or iriquetrous, often lightly clavate, 
obtuse, 2 to 3 lines long, densely clustered on the short axillary branchlets, 
Flowers small, pink, solitary, on short pedicels, artieulate about or above the 
middle. Bracteoles all fallen from the specimens seen. Calyx-tube turbinate 
* when young, at length hemispherical, scarcely above 1 line diameter ; lobes 
short, bro ad, with scarious margins. Petals less than i lie idi: much nar- 
at the base. Stamens about 6 to 8, none opposite the centre of the 
petale ; filaments E anther-cells parallel, eens Augen con- 
nective-gland s small vary 2- or 3-celled, with about 8 ovules in each cell ; 
stigma rather broad. Capsule slightly convex. Seeds not angled. 
W. Austra King George's Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunningham ; alo ong m coast 
from Bremer Bay, to Experience ^w A nd inla Ss fron SE Le Grand, Maxwell ; Lucky 
- Brown (with a much smaller style and s tigma).—This much resem hari 
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fascicularis, but the filaments are rd distinet and distant s each oth. 
: B. linifolia, Rudge in Trans, Linn, Soc. viii. 297. 4. 19. Tall and 
TM with slender virgate branches. Leaves very narrow- linear, semiterete 
or concave, acute, in some specimens all above 4 in., attaining E: or even l 
m., in others mostly 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers small, solitary in the upper 
axils, almost sessile or on pedicels rarely attaining 1 line. Calyx-tube tur- 
ccu ig at length almost urceolate ; lobes very broad and short, scarcely 
the centre of the petals; filaments filiform ; anther-cells parallel, opening - 
ét ech connective-gland small. Ovary flat-topped, 2-celled, with 15 
to 20 ovules in each cell round an orbicular almost peltate placenta. Capsule 
in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 
N. S. Wales. Port athe to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 280, and 
others. 
Var. D) drevi e F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 72. Leaves shorter and more ri 
d places, near Mount SCH, F. Muel ët I refer this Kë on the au- 
WA of F. Mue ueller. The specimens appear to me to have rather the aspect, foliage, and 
GE p und deptocanti, but being only in a far ped fruiting stage, they cannot be accu- 
y de 
0. B. steno ophyila, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 13. Branches — vir. 
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gate, Leaves slender, linear, semiterete, obtuse, 2, 3 or pod 4 lines long, 
ostly crowded or clustered on the short axillary shoo mos ven — 
Se shortly pedicellate, solitary in each axil, but often M us little leafy 
corymbs, on bot axillary shoots. Bracteoles narrow, at the base of t 
obtuse. Petals erage i gu? up er. aem 5 or 6, pone ening b the . 
"e closely ‘pe round an Ee somewhat Stars bs acen 
Moreton Island, F. Mueller. This differs chiefly from > B. linifolia o 
flo "ules- a 
its slender erg and foliage and small narrow flowers, Both are nearly allied to B. fi 
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