90 XLVIII. MYRTACE. | Astartea. 
late, SE concave, eeng or with a small often recurved point, 2 to 3 or 
rarely 4 lines long. wers large for the g ene? on pedicels 2 to 3 lines 
long, Gen with 2 smite bractéóles near the base. Calyx-tube e 
almost venim: about 2 lines diameter; lobes semiorbicular. Petals 2 
lines diameter. amens about 20; filaments of unequal length but all 
short, dilated, more or less uuited in a ring either complete or broken opposite 
the centre of the petals; anther-cells parallel, opening longitudinally in front 
of the summit of the filament; connective-gland globular. Ovary nearly flat; 
with 6 to 8 ovules in each cell ; style in a very slight central depression. 
W. Australia. E. Mount Barren, Mount Bland, and Phillips Rauges, Maxwell. 
. fascicularis, Prod. ii. 210. An erect heath-like shrub ` 
attaining 8 to 10 ft., rarely os and diffuse. Leaves linear, semiterete or tri- ` 
quetrous, obtuse or KEEN DC usually 2 or 3 lines long and rather slender, : 
nd almost | 
_ but varying from under 2 lines to above 4 lines, thick or sle 
small, on pedicels of 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines, articulate with a pair of small 1 
bracteoles above the middle. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate- campanulate, about ` 
n? Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 29. t. 170; Leptospermum, dubium, Spreng. | 
Syst. ii. 492 ; Beczea affinis, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. yer to Schau. ` 
Astartea leptophylla, A. fascicularis, A. laricifolia, A. scoparia, A, asper, | 
i ge gre A. corniculata, and A. Endlicheriana, Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i ` : 
to 
UMP A be Be g George's Bin Käch Bay, R. Brown, Labillardi Gs Cane : 
n from the S. co p seg ud Mur n rivers, Fraser and others; Preiss, n. 150, 4 
156, 158, 159, 162, 163, 165, 361; Dremmond, Jet, Coil. ; pv Coll. n. 60, "00; bd. S 
Coll. n. 35 e Coll. n. 52; 5th Coll. n. 125 
is certainly variable as to the size ot the flowers, the thick or fine leaves, the 
or Sa prominence of the appendage or thickening of the calyx-lobes, the num mber of ` 4 
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— and Maxwell's specimens from the distriets east of. King George's Sound the flowers ` 
re alto. menge, pase larger with the petals nearly 2 lines diameter. Labillardiére’s figure ` 
ae e form, with = leaves yu clustered than usual. Drummond's 2nd € 1 
n. 60, are ; like it, but more etiolated. 
3. A. intratropica, /. Muell. Fragm. i. 88. A shrub of ees f 3 
with erect virgate branches. Leaves linear, triquetrous or semiterete, obtuse ` 
rather thick, mostly 3 to 4 lines long, narrowed at the base, not clus a 
Flowers almost sessile, with 2 narrow very deciduous hracteoles. Calyx tu j 
` turbinate-campanulate, about 1$ lines diameter, glandular-rugose ; Ne 
broad, very obtuse, thickened in the centre, but without any ee i 
