270 XLVIII. MYRTACEÆ. [Backhousia. — 
inflorescence more or less pubescent or poy een the da a gla- 
d, n. long, 
brous. Leaves ovate, acutely acuminate, penn 
narrowed into a petiole of 1 to 2 lines. See white, in dec cymes 
sometimes contracted into heads, on peduncles o of $ to 1 in. at the base of 
but not seen ripe.—F. Muell. "hh. a0 os. riparia, Hook. in Bot. Mag. 
under n. 4133. 
Ugo Moreton Bay, W. dp Pine n, Fitzalan. 
« Wales. Hawkesbury river, R. Brown; Port Jackson, Burton; Paramatts, 
Woolies Deque river, 4. Cunn ingham, Sege? Maili 2i river, Beckler ; Clarence 
river, Wilcox 
2. angustifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 19. A tall shrub, the young 
shoots and inflorescence’ minu tely hoary-pubescent or tomentose, t he adult 
very obliquely penniveined, 1 to l} in n. long. Flowers rather small, in cymes ; 
or heads of 3 to 9 each, on SA of $ in. or less in the ing wen ] 
about 1 line long, outer lobes orbi cular, as long as the tube, inner de ve d 
larger = petal-like. Petals shorts than the inner calyx-lobes : ds 
on 
stamens above 2 lines long. Ovary inferior, convex and pubescen 
top; ovules about 6 in each cell, campylotropous, sni attached in two TW ` 
to an axile placenta as in R. myrtifolia 
Queensland.  Dawsou river, F. Mueller. 
. 3. B. sciadophora, P Muell. Fragm. i. 26, 171. A tree, either ` 
glabrous or the young pug qua d Ru scent. Leaves broadly ovate, q 
obtuse, 1 to 23 in. long, on short petioles. Flower s small, numerous, it 
umbel-like cymes or clusters on a common ate of j to żin. m 
upper axils, the slender EN often 2 in. long. Calyx-tube pem 
broadly campanulate, about 1 line long; outer lobes rounded and 7 tly ; 
shorter, the i ine ones rather longer than the tube. Petals broad, mu d 
sem. | 
exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens about 2 lines long. Ovary 
to the bottom of the calyx, the convex P slightly pobeci 0 
in each cell, campylotropous, attached in 2 rows to an axile placenta. 
sule filling the SS bett apparently eer 
separable into 2 cocci 
Cures Ro dë Thozet, with small peses 
es. Hastings and Macleay rivers, Bec. 
_ 4. B. citriodora, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 18. A tall shrub or ec 1 
the young ee under side of the leaves and inflorescence hoary- 
orat length glabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, mee, o weg : 
lin rm re. e 
glabrous above, 3 to 5 in. long, on petioles of 4 to 
sa madly 
