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tens, Linn., a common species in the Eastern Archipelago and S. China, distinguished from 
them chiefly by the more open calyx, and the ovary almost always 3-celled, 
‘Section IV. HanMOGIA.—Stamens few or numerous, but none opposite 
the centres of the petals ; filaments filiform or rarely clavate ; anther-cells 
distinet, nearly globular, parallel or divergent, deeply furrowed and opening 
more or less in longitudinal slits in the furrows. Ovary 3-celled, with several 
ovules in each cell. Flowers solitary or 2, 3 or more together on a short 
common peduncle, 
The anthers in this and the following section are intermediate, as it were, between those 
of Euryonyrtus and of Babingtonia. In the first four species of Harmogia, they are very 
y 
ose of Euryomyrtus, except that the cells are more globular and do not open quite 
80 deeply in 2 valves ; in B. densifoli 7j i i 
pores. In 
I rymyr ; the dehiscence is n arly the same, but the furrows of tke cel are 
e "s those which separate the cells, so that the anthers appear to have 4 cells similar 
» ; à 
f Babingtonia, and the slits are shortened into pores. In some specimens 
cult to draw any marked line between the several modifications 
- Fragm. iv. 70; Leptospermum iméricatum, Sm. in Trans. Linn. 
: Se 300 ; Camphoromyrtus Brownii, Schauer in Linnea, xvii. 240. 
b S. Wales, Paramatta, R. Brown, Woollis. 
3 gen virgata, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 598. Usually tall erect and loosely 
E gëfteg 10 to 12 ft., rarely low and diffuse. Leaves from linear- 
E lanceola o 
D Upper axils, usuall l together in a loose umbel, on a com- 
Mon peduncle np ig y ies ogether in a ` 
; d e turbinate at length hemi . ` . 
broad. th. spherical, about 14 lines diameter; lobes short 
Sé „the midrib more dà ee i i 
dn long as the cells. Ovary 3-celled, with 15 to 20 ovules in each 
and à peltate placenta. Cire nearly flat-topped. Seeds usually 
: eotyled bryo with the slender inflected end very short, with 2 small 
l; Colla, 51... DC. Prod. iii, 229; Bot. Mag. t. 2127; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
Yo nr » Hort, Ripul. t. 6; F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 69 ; as 
