96 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Balaustion, 
longitudinally. Ovary in the bottom of the calyx, wholly inferior, flat-topped ` 
with a central depression round the style, 3-celled, with several ovules in - 
each cell, imbricate in 2 rows on a peltate placenta; style "filiform, with a - 
slightly dilated capitate stigma. Capsule opening loculicidally, but mot - 
near ripe in our specimens. —Shrub. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers large, ` 
axillary, pedicellate with 2 bracteoles under the calyx. 
The genus is limited to the single Australian species. 7 
1. B. pulcherrimum, og E: Pl.1.852. A low glabrous shrub, | 
with a short thick trunk and nu s decumbent or prostrate stems, ex- ` 
tending to about 1 ft. Leaves ëtt. Ge E and keeled or tri- 
quetrous, rigid, acute or mucronate, mostly er 1 in. long. lowers of a | 
rich red, solitary in the axils below the We ‘of the branches, on pedicels of l ` 
to 3 lines. Bracteoles small, ovate. Calyx-tube nearly 4 a in. long ; lobes ` 
about 1 to 1 lines, coloured like the tube. Petals about 5 lines diameter, 1 
h 
Ten Northern tibia Drummond, 5th Coll. nm n. 26. 
SusTRIBE Il. EvrEPTOsPERMEX.— Leaves scattered or rarely opposite, 
small or narrow and coriaceous, 1- or more nerved, rare y cy ore 
Flowers — in the axils of the leaves or bracts, closely sessile except in à. : 
very few species. Stamens indefinite, in one or more rows, free or un nited in 
bundles optbdiie the petals, or very rarely — eech versatile with | 
distinct parallel cells. Ovules in 2 or more rows in each cell of the ovary : 
so straight or slightly incurved, the vit Mdota usually ag gi the | 
17. AGONIS, DC. 
(Billiottia, DC.) 
ee tube turbinate or campanulate, adnate to the ovary at the base, H 
free part road; l obes 5, ovate, usually scarious, imbricate or open. E 
small globular giis MA inferior, 3-celled, with 2 or 4 ordei d 
cell erect from a small n p placenta; style filiform, inserted in 
deeply tubular do i x centre of the ovary, being attached à 
to the base of the carpels; stigma esit or phi. Capsule d 
