XLVIII. MYRTACER. BT 
terminal =? heads, the perfect ones occasionally in oblong or cylindrical dense spikes, 
i ot growing out until after the e flowering is over, the rhachis -o — Aire 
i, spikes very dense, globular or oblong, rarely reduced to 2 or 3 frui 
SUBSERIES I. OM — Leaves opposite. Flowers often few or almost solitary. 
1 pond. long, thick. Spikes réng ov oe Bracts 
i r none . 12. M. gibbosa. 
S Leaves thick, convex underneath, oblong o or linear. Bracts | im- 
Flowers several i in a head, — Leaves under 3 lines long, 
very obtuse. Staminal claws v y short. . 50. M. eymbifolia. 
Flowers 1 to 8 together, Staminal claws as long as the petals. 
Leaves mostly above 3 in Flowers glabrous . 51. M. cuticularis. 
Leaves qm uuder 3 in. d very obtuse. Flowers and 
Young shoo pes -pubescent 52. M. sparsiffora. 
KR ri asas or ovate- -lanceolate, flat. or danoi about i 
in. 
Flowers rather large, 1 to 3 together. Bracts imbricate . . 53. M. eslgeina. 
Flowers in terminal globular heads, and in lateral clusters . . 16. M. violace 
Geen IT. Nervosz.— Leaves alternate or scattered, flat, thick, 3- to T-nerved, 
and rarely under Y in. lon ng. 
d ` Squamea, has 3-nerved leaves, but very small; 77. M. thymoides; and 78. M. 
Sm have linear-lanceolate, acute, 3- or 5-nerved leaves. 
; broadly ovate-cordate or orbicular, 3- or 5- nerved, 4 to à 
Lene be . 54. M. cordata. : 
ves 5s gbovate-oblong or broadly oblanceolate, 5- or r nerve, 1 
Lens . 55. M. globifera. 
e E ee obovate-oblong, prominently 3- or 5- 
lans Du on 56. M. megacephala. 
es Zon to oblanceolate, i to 1 in. long, obscurely 
rved, 
lens o eg 
ower-heads large. 
each bundle domam 4 lines long, numerous in 
. 87. M. nesophila. 
Powerheads s small. 
Sie  Staindas 2 lines LJ few in each 
la ucc t > . « 04. M. pentagona var. 
a aa: Egeter eg geht e ois M, Olea. 
Zeie ERIES TIT. Lon gifoliæ.— Leaves linear, terete or flat, mostly above 1 in. long. 
3 um ee, ly white or yellow 
eer, terete or rare] fiat AN hooked is or rarel 
Ls Fru ruit-spikes oa ov "Im d 59. M. uncinata. . 
e Kë wi straight pista: Fruit-spikes mostly 
er P with straight points. "Fruit-spikes rather M. filifolia. 
"get h straight points. -Fruit- heads small, ‘globular . Se M. hakeoides. 
fat, v éi strai ght points. Fruit-heads very small, globular 63. M. glomerata. 
EN x se.— Leaves either linear and under L in., rif me ovate or 
valli "AE se ird ie ym scurely 3-nerved. dene, | red sa er NIME Orange 
Mg s. All Western species except 
fuse, d ag at, rigid, e wage | or eg de 
1. herved, A to 3 in, ], -heads axillary 
p ~~ we . 04. x dam 
S ovate, » obovate-cblong or lanceolate, CH r 
