Beaufortia] XLVIII. MYRTACEÆ. 167 
tapering at the end, each with 3 to 5 rigid divaricate filaments, about 3 as 
ong as the claw; anther-valves orbieular, the outer one of each cell much 
- -lamer than the inner one. Ovary with 2 rudimentary ovules in each cell 
under the perfect one.  Fruit-spikes globular or oblong, the calyx-lobes at 
length wearing off. 
NW. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n, 178; E. Mount Barren, Marwell. The 
petals are those of B. anisandra, but the flowers are more regular and the leaves broader. 
Ka Calyx-tube about 1 line lon 
at the base, each with 8 to 7 rigid digi 
E claw, the inner bundles very much shorter with fewer filaments; outer valves 
- ofeach anther-cell orbicular, twice as large as the inner one. Ovary with one 
large ovule in each cell, the 2 rudimentary ones minute or wanting. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, 4. Cunningham Dru 
mond, 3rd Coll. n. 57; Preiss, n. 362, and others, and a var. with redder stamens, Drum- 
3 mond (3rd Coll. ?), n. 46 ; Kojonerup ranges, Maxwell. SS 
6. B, macrostemon, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 10. A small shrub, often 
not above 1 ft. high, more or less pubescent or birsute. Leaves opposite, 
often broadly lanceolate and 3- or 5-nerved on the main stem, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, crowded and l-nerved on the smaller branches, rather rigid, bu 
qur acute, mostly 3 to 5 lines long. Flowers. in dense globular heads, 
Ehin and calyxes villous. Calyx-tube oblique, 1 to ly lines long ; 
Petal narrow-lanceolate or linear, as long as the tube or the outer ones longer. 
s $ ovate, ciliate, rarely exceeding the calyx-lobes. Staminal bundles un- 
2 the longer ones 3 in. long, the claws narrow, more or less hairy inside 
€ base, tapering at the top, each with about 3 spreading filaments, much 
rola wanting.—Schau. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xxi. 16, and in Pl. Preiss, 
= Australia, Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll.; Preiss, w. 357; Hampden, 
Ve : : : 
"ag incana. Leaves white-tomentose on both sides, the nerves inconspicuous. Swan 
eg E Drummond 
