166 . — XLVIIL MYRTACEJX. [Beef 1 
WV. Australia. King George's Sound ES adjoining districts, Menzies, R. Bini. 
Drummond, "3rd Coll. n. 42, 4th Coll. n. 59; Preiss, n. 319, 355, and others. à 
2. B. decussa vn R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2: iv. 418. 
W. Aus tralia goa sind Bound. pe adjoining districts, d Brel Bast, j 
Drummond, 8rd Coll. n. 59, 4th Coll. n. 61; Preiss, n. 356, and others. p 
except the inflorescen e, e, and sometimes the qne shoots. Leaves mo 
crowded, decussate, age obovate, recurved, concave, 5- or 1-nerved, 
exceeding 2 lines, the floral ones or braets nearly end and flatter. Flower 
in dense, terminal, globular heads, the axis only growing out after flowers 
the rhachis usually pubescent. Calyx-tube 1 to nearly 2 lines long, 
narrow ; lobes about 1 line long, prominently 3.nerved. Petals oblong.” 
least twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Staminal bundles crimson, at least 
in. long, the claws slender, each with 3 to 7 filaments at the end, shorter VP 
the claw; anther-valves orbicular, ciliate. Ovary with imperfect ovules it 
each cell under the perfect one, often enlarged and pee after erer n 
lan without any embryo. Fruits, in some specimens, nearly solitary, ?' 
ooth, and 3 to 4 liues long, in others scarcely half so large and man 
gether in little un the ealyx-lobes always deciduous. : 
tralia. ning river, Preiss, and Murchison 
treat 6th Coll. n. Go KC Gregory arp gie eae ` Quifiel d. 
4. B. tote F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 110. A de d 
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