 Lontienteneon XLVIII. MYRTACES. 269 
- dosing the incurved radicle ; sterile seeds numerous, of the same — but 
hard and homogeneous. — Metrosideros chrysantha, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 
Queensland. Along streams, Rockingham Bay, Dadlachy. 
oxus, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 80. A tall shrub or small tree, 
. parado " 
the inflorescence and under side of the leaves tomentose pubescent or glau- 
1 m length glabrous, the upper leaves assuming a yellowish hue in the 
tate. Leaves obovate-oblong or elliptical, obtuse, mostly 2 to 3 in. 
long, narrowed into a short petiole. Cymes dense, terminal or in the upper 
axils. Calyx-tube broadly campanulate, about 2 lines ae gi opening flat 
under the fruit; lobes ovate-tr jangular, varying from $ to 1 line long. 
Petals ovate or orbicular, ciliate, 1i to 2 lines long. Stamens ag rigid, 
nearly $ in. long ; anthers really attached at the back, but the thick fleshy 
connective enclosing the summits of the filament so as to make them appear 
attached by the base. Ovary nearly superior, 2- or 3-celled, the style quite 
terminal ; ovules in a riug round the clavate placenta. Capsule globular or 
almost ovoid. Seeds as in X. chrysanthus, the broad cotyledons weve over 
the incumbent radicle.— Metrosideros paradoxa, F. Muell. Fragm. i 
i Australia. Montagne Sound, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; rocky hills on the 
ictoria river ay Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller. 
36. BACKHOUSIA, Hook. and Harv. 
Calyx-tube turbinate or broadly campanulate, adnate to the ovary at the 
base; lobes 4, almost petal-like or scarious, persistent. Petals 4, shorter 
" isce A parating i to ^ cci d ^0 ovoid or ERC embryo 
Tüight, cotyledons (where known) conduplicate and longer than the radicle 
Leaves opposite, penniveined. Flowers in cymes some- 
por ês reduced to heads or in umbels, on rages peduncles often forming 
EE Pa A tear COE 
leafy panicles. Bracts rd deciduo 
Sid nus is confined to Australia, an may bee dedii in some measure as connecting 
Myrtee with de Jin e but is dy on by the calyx, ovary, and fruit. 
€, corymbose. Pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. SE 
NL -aeuminate. Calyx-lobes nearly equal 1. B. myrtifolia. 
ceolate or oblong-linear. Inner vie large ‘and petal- De SE 
mos umbel dike: 
zx ov ate-obt tuse. Placentas axile 3. B. sciadophora. 
la 
seta acuminate. Placentas as pendulous from the E nodos. 
Pedicels filiform, many times longer than the 
myrtifolia, Hook. and Hare. i. Mag. 4133. At 
Ei or small tree, the young shoots and the nione side of the leaves and i 
