TRA 
Capsule nearly globular, attached only by the broad 
lyr. Qy 
Lysicarpus.] ‘ XLVIII. MYRTACEA. 267 
The genus is limited to the single Australian species. It is very nearly allied to Metro- 
sideros. 
l. L. ternifolius, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. ii. 68. A tree at- 
taining about 30 ft., with a soft thick fibrous bark, the young branchlets and 
linear, mucronate-acute or rarely obtuse, 
lt 
Ovary pu 
scent. Capsule often twice as long as the calyx.—Tristania angustifolia, 
Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 198. 
land. On the Maranoa, Mitchell ; Darling Downs and between the Mackenzie 
and Dawson rivers, F, Mueller. 
34. METROSIDEROS, Banks. 
(Nania, Mig.) 
8 valves or rarely irregularly dehiscent. Seeds usually numerous, flat, cu- 
I or linear, erect ; embryo straight, the cotyledons flat or folded, longer 
than the radicle.—Shrubs or trees, rarely climbing. Leaves opposite, penni- 
Yemed. Flowers often showy, in dense terminal trichotomous cymes, or 
rarely axillary, 
à genus comprises several very variable species dispersed over the islands of the Pacific 
and Indian Archipelago from New Zealand to the Sandwich Islands, with one somewhat. 
species fro i i 
a M. eucalyptoides, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 243. A moderate-sized 
re or the young shoots glaucous or slightly tomentose 
Msc? lobes distant, narrow. Petals linear or oblong, narrowed into a 
claw. Stamens numerous, about 4 in. long. Ovary half superior. 
base to the persistent 
ules very numerous, flat, amphitropous, erect, densely imbricate 
