Se ee ee TTT TT, "TT 
ee FC E EE BE EE RER BTS NC DEER E E ET 
Backea.) XLVIII, MYRTACER, 89 
diameter. Stamens about 20, none opposite the centre of the petals; fila- 
ments inflated at the summit and continuous with the thickened connectiv ve; 
anthers broadly obcordate, the cells opening in terminal pores. Ovary very 
convex, 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell; style shortly immersed.— 
nia subcuneata, F. Muell. Fragm 74. 
W. Australia. Sandy plains, Marchiten:r river, Oldfield. 
ra, Benth. Branches elongated, with numerous 
articulate above the middle with a pair of linear kee Calyx-tube 
Very open, above 2 lines diameter, truncate, with 5 prominent angles or short. 
d, forming an E uped ring, but quite free from each other ; 
anthers large and thick, o oid or oblong, truncate at the top, the pedis 
pore 
ell; E bad imm 
ustralia, 
RE tween e and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 60. 
a - Sieb. in Spreug. Syst. Cur. Post. 149, is unknown to me, and probably no 
14. ASTARTEA, DC. 
Dice, "äise or hemispherical, adnate to the ovary at the base, the 
aring broad and open; lobes 5, dees? continuous wit 
the tube, Kate 
scarcely į opposite the calyx-lobes or into a ring 
SE a. opposite the Genk anther-cells distinct, opening in longi- 
Tows or transverse slits, Ovary 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell it in 2 
SO S ro d or less peltate placenta ; dch filiform, in- 
EE € almost entirely inferior, opening at the top Kat: 
eeds, more or ben angular, with a thin testa; embryo 
t not s erfect.—Heath-like glabrous shrubs. 
PS smal : : ; d 
` It the axils a Ka osite, 1 dena the Flowers small, white or pink, solitary 
base, with 9 Mese ve or on sense or pedicel articulate near the 
? small bracteoles at the articulatio 
: in the h e samena nar entirely Bie only eg éi from e section Schidiomyrtus of nne 
eg? t te 
nh eed ahd Be e tied at the base opposite the calyx-lobes, not opposi 
m opening Mini usura i 
arge. Filamen ts dilated, f forming a nearly co: : 
base , . 1. A. ambigua. 
— into 5 iem Me Filaments zart dilated, united at the bes 
` . A. fascicularis. 
nearly sessile, dn opening in transverse slits. . . 3. 4. intratropica. 
EI Fragm. ii. 32. An erect or spreading shrub 
ft. Leaves linear, linear-cuneate or here and there almost Jee nceo- 
