: Kunzea.] XLVIII. MYRTACEA, 117 
Petals scarcely 1 line diameter. Stamens numerous, 3 or 4 times as long as 
the petals. Ovary very short, 3-celled, with very numerous ovules in each 
cell, covering a broad peltate placenta. Fruiting-calyx enlarged and succu- 
? lent, forming a blue berry of 3 to 4 lines diameter, crowned by the lobes. 
08 in the base of the calyx. Seeds ovate ; testa almost crusta- 
dicl 
ons thick, ovate, with a very short radicle. 
" m racts membranous, broad, concave, very deciduous. Calyx 
y campanulate, 3 to 4 lines diameter; lobes lanceolate, thick, tomen- 
each ce on a 
; Stigma small, slightly capitate. Capsule filling the slightly 
8 to have ascertained that Leptospermum sericeum of Labillardiére was 
Leeuwin," not from Tasmania; but he refers to it specimens of 
i Gi e 
Baxteri, Schan. in Pl. Preiss. i. 123. A rigid shrub of several 
Y-pubescent, or the foliage at length glabrous. Leaves 
g or lanceolate, flat, obtuse or somewhat acute, 3 to 4 in. 
Y short dense silky hairs. Flowers large, like those 
» 0 dense terminal oblong cylindrical spikes of 1 to 2 in., the 
yxes pubescent or rarely glabrous. Calyx-tube broadly cam- 
3 lines long; lobes leafy, lanceolate or linear, erect, nearly as 
tube. Petals of rich red, no 
© $ or sometimes nearly l in. long; anthers yellow. 
each cell on a small ltate placenta; stigma slightly clavate. 
oo. ; Stigma sugnt 
A thick and soniewhat enlarge; the lobes persistent and erect, 
ut half as long as the tube, wholly adnate.— entagonaster Baxteri, 
