170 XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. [Beaufortia. 
tralia. omes ranges ES Lee mée hills towards Cape Riche, Drum- 
mond, “Ath Kë n. 63; Preiss, n. 256 ; 
Var. pu Leave See er larger, ege minutely pubescent, the keel less pro- 
ar. puber: 
minent. Howe s rather e with usually 5 stamens to each bundle.—Drum mond, 4th 
n. 113. i 
Coll. n. 151; 5th Coll. 
Var. Marit : Dia rather narrower and rs ete 4 to nearly 3 lines ` 
long.— Melaleuca empetrifolia, Reichb. Icon. Eni ii. iss Beaufortia empetrifolia, ` 
in Nov. Act. Nat. C i 
4 21; ; 
Melaleuca Regelit, Planch. fn Hort. Don i. 89. p 4, aa Gs the same species, but it 1 
has ouly been described from the drawing, ich gives no analysis 
25. REGELIA, Schau. 
See ovoid or nearly globular, adnate to the ovary at the base, the | 
free part usually contracted ; lobes 5, usually deciduous. Petals 5, spread- 
ing. Stamens rer T QUÉ in 5 bundles opposite the petals, the fila- 
placenta; style filiform, with a small stigma. Capsule enclosed in the en- 
larged and hardened pul ciet ealyx-tube, opening loculicidally in 3 valve. - 
Seeds 1 or 2 perfect i in each cell. Embryo . . .— Rigid shrubs, usually pubes- | 
cent or villous, with the habit of Beaufortia. Leaves small, opposite, nott 
in 
or more-nerved. Flowers closely sessile and solitary within each 
in heads at first terminal, but the central axis soon growing out intoà ` 
ea 
- Jeafy branch, and often polygamous as in Melaleuca and Beaufortia. 
The genus is age to West Australia, and only differs from Beaufortia in the anthers 2 
and the number of 
Rue wen bundles $ in. de the Ge much longer than the filaments. 
te-lanceolatey 4 in. 1. R.graudiflort. ` 
PRAE bundles 2 1 2 b 4 lines Se the claw "shorter o or. not “longer 
filam 
Leaves broad, spre Modos ines long . EE 9. R. ciliala. 
Leaves erect, peltately attached, 4 to 2 lines long. Pia , — &§ p 
1. R. grandiflora, Benth. Branches stout, visi, long a 
hoary-villous. Leaves erect or spreading, decussate, ovate-lanceol 
or almost acute, keeled and about 5-nerved, mostly about i in. long, 
hoary on both sides. ine large, dense, globular or ovo ee 
rhachis and ide very silky-villous. Lower bracts often leaf-like and & 
he cal $ 
€ fe 
lobes, fringed with fine cilia, Staminal bundles of a rich red, Ger 
long, the linear claws at least twice as long as the petals, each with 7 to 
filaments shorter than the ien doen conical, the cells opening out 
in longitudinal slits. Fruit 
ustralia, Led in Ge n. . 119. 
2. pone ta, Schau. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xxi. 11, — pi, pum» 
stories 
and virgafé ` 
ate, obtuse j 
