138 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Melaleuca, — 
ey at the end. Ovules few in each cell, erect, on a small placenta; stigma 
mall. 
N.A alia. N.W. Coast, m Harbour, Voyage of the Beagle; Liverpool 
` river and Cambridge Gulf, 4. Cunning 
25. M. acacioides, F. Muell. S. iii. 116. A small tree, of a pale 
bare, often vertica L flat thick, faintly 3- or 5-nerved. Flowers small, in 
about 3 lines long, the claws much longer than the e pe etals, unequally divided 
at the end each into 5 to 7 filaments. -Ovals few in each cell, rather large, 
ia AN a short thick placenta. Fruiting-calyx often scarcely above 1 line | 
diameter. i 
alia. Pandanus vien. Else's Creek, Arnhem's Land, and dry plains at de ` 
Sources of f the Roper river, F. Mue d 
Serres IV. Crrcumscissm.—Leaves alternate. Flowers in axillary la- — 
teral or rarely terminal globular heads. Calyx-tube circumsciss at the top d 
the ovary after flowering and falling off with the lobes, the adnate portion ` 
alone persistent. Fruits more or less cohering in a globular head. 1 
'This series might be considered as a distinct section = Schauer’s — Asterongri 1 
characterized by the circumsciss ealyx-tube, which has not bee in any dg ` 
species e inflorescence, however, Hie coheing re De and he ke: ` de — 
racters occur in other groups of the g 
6. M. Baxteri, Benth. Very rigid, the young shoots softly tomen* : 
Ga Leaves West, ArNe- oblong obtuse rigidly coriaceous, 3-nerved, 4 
1 to nearly 2 in. long. Flowers not seen. Fruiti ng-heads lateral, sessile ` 
dun globular, the fruits almost truncate, about 3 lines diameter. . E 
ict to the level of the capsule as in He symphyocarpa and M. angusti- 
B 
W. Australia. King George’s Sound or to the eastward, Bazter. 
27. M. symphyocarpa, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. Ho 
Glabrous and Sen Leaves alternate, oblong, obtuse, narrowed at the E 
base, 1} to 22 in. long, mostly vertical, flat, rigid, many-r nerved. Flowes ` 
in es globular lateral ] heads, cmd on the ue year’s branches. Bracs ` 
Ree. enn of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; on the main : I 
