268 XLVIII. MYRTACER. .  [Metrosideros. 
and completely covering the scarcely prominent placenta. Seeds very flat, 
obovate-falcate, Ne not seen quite ripe.—Xanthostemon eucalyptoides, F. 
Muell. Prem. 
N. Aus a. Re banks of the poen river, F. Mue 
M. erem Suit Prod. 351, from Port Jackson, Burton, is gz not a Metro- 
sideros, as the genus is now constituted, but I js not met with any specimens corre- 
sponding to the imperfect diagnoses given 
35. XANTHOSTEMON, P Muell. 
(Fremya, Brongn. aud Gris.) ` 
lobes 4 or 5, slightly imbricate, often unequal. Petals 4 or 5, ie: 
Stamens indefinite, free or slightly united at the base, in one or more series 
much exceeding the put: ; pue often iut ; anthers versatile or, from 
rous “ovules i in each cell, dit packed in a single ring round a clavate or 
ser open ; style filiform with a small stigma. Capsule free except the 
straight or beuti: een —Tress or shrubs. Le aves altern ate, penni 
veined. Flowers in dense cymes on terminal or axillary peduncles, or i 
species a soe ee solitary or nearly so. Bracts and "bracteoles usually 
very sm 
SCH ie two Australian species there are a considerable number in New Caledonia. 
e genus has since been reunited by F. Mueller with Metrosideros, which it closely re- 
sembles, The "rji he mea leaves, with the insertion and arrangement of the did 
É : ms 
miniera the caps ule . 1, X. chrysanthus. 
flat under the caps wale’ . 2. X. paradozus. 
F. Muell. Herb. A tall handsome tree, the spe 
upper axils about 4 in. long, bearing each a dense cyme of 5 to 10 wi 
large flowers of a golden-yellow. Calyx-tube broa adly campanulate, 3 to 
lines diameter, somewhat enlarged and half enclosing the fruit ; lo 
wg, € 3-celled, with numerous flat ovules closely pac 
single whorl round a peltate somewhat clavate placenta. ae Mer A be : 
at all immersed. Capsule about 5 lines diameter. Seeds less €n- 
with a thin testa ; eotyledons broad, 2-lobed, conduplicate, Zeg or les 
