86 XLVI. MYRTACER, ` (Beckea, ` 
32. B. camphorosme, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 51. Either low and ` 
spreading, or erect and attaining 2 ft. or more; branches usually long and 
virgate, with numerous short branchlets. Leaves crowded on the branchlets, 
pedicels, solitary or more frequently clustered on a very short common . 
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a deep tubular central depression. Embryo with very minute ovate cotyle- 
dons.—Babingtonia camphorosme, 
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Preiss, n. 941,949, a . Vasse River, Preiss, n. 348. One of the grounds on i 
which the genus Babingtonia was formed was on the supposed perforation of the ovary Da 
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or almost basally attached to the carpels, as in Labiate, Chrysobalanee, many Rutace , elta E 
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33. B. pulchella, DÓ. Prod. iii. 230, and Men. Myrt. t. 13? Bret | 
| short slits in the furrows. Ovary flat-topped, 3-celled, with many or. d 
each cell round a peltate placenta; style rather deeply immerseó- 7 i 
myrtus Drummondii, Turcz. in Bull. Mose, 1847. i. 155. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 8rd Coll. n. 36. odit 
I have not seen authentic specimens of De Candolle's plant, but this is the only SE 
I have found to agree with his short diagnosis and figure im everything except the 
teoles, which, however, De Candolle may have considered as stem leaves. 
