Peduncles axillary, rarely 1-flowered, mostly with 1, 2, or 3 pairs of 
272 XLVIII. MYRTACEÆ. [Rhodomyrtus. 
each cell, but owing to spurious dissepiments interposed between the ovules, 
appearing either 2-, 4- or 6-celled or divided into numerous 1- ovulated cells 
superposed in 2, 4, or 6 rows ; style filiform, with the stigma usually peltate. 
ruit a berry or almost a drupe, g ege? ovoid, or cylindrical, divided into 
1-seeded cells or nuts superposed in 2 to 6 or almost in a single row. Seeds 
compressed, reniform, or nearly orbicular, with a hard testa; em mbryo o horse- 
shoe-shaped or ring-shaped, with a long radicle and very small cot yledons.— 
Trees or shrubs more or less tom entose or villous, ` Leaves opposite, penni- 
veined or triplinerved. Peduncles m bearing 1 or 3 or rarely a 
or cyme of 5 or more flowers, pink or white. Bracts small, or. when the 
peduncles are several- flowered the lowdit sometimes leaf-like.  Bracteoles 
small and "i ciduous. 
SS oar e Aus see Ze there is one which is widely distributed over the nes 
— go, xoig en a, but "eed ies fe: yet been detected in Australia. 
genus is nearly allied d Myr us, sch still n Psidi Se but appears to be sufficiently 
ariken d by the ovary and fruit to be distinguished from both. 
ms Jk tangy pire Flowers rather large (3, 5, or 7). Ovules and 
, o. L R, psidioides, 
Yn prominently triplinerved. Flowers small (usually 3). Ovules 
an sin 4 9. R. trineura. 
Leaves penniveined, but vith an “intramarginal v vein ‘often prominent, so 
as to be almost triplinerved. 
Flowers small in a loose aca iae cyme. Ovules and seeds in 4 i 
or 6 rows 20. o. + 8. Re 
Flowers rather ler ^wid 3,0 r 6). EE ia 2 rows, Frnit d 
cylindrical, with the seeds in Y or 2 row . 4, R. macrocarpt. 
1. R. psidioides, Benth, A tree attaining sometimes a great size, the 
young shoots more or less hoary-pubescent; the older foliage glabrous 
besides the terminal Ont the lowest often again 3- ‘flowe red, the pedicels 
articulate below the calyx. Calyx-tube hoary-tomentose, thick, fully 2 lines 
broadly peltate. Berry ovoid-globular. Ovules and seeds superposed B 
ws.— Nelitris Posee G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 829; Myrtus D 
Muell Fragm. ii. 86. t 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Hill, F. Mueller. 
s M. ales. Hunters river, R. Brown, Scott ; Hastings River, Fraser, 
Clarence river, Beckler 
2. R. trine 
velvety-tomentose. Leaves petiolate, ovate- lanceolate, ice 
y pe 
tomentose underneath. owers usually 3 together, sessile in the axils, 
borne on a short common peduncle. Calyx-tube tom tose-villous, 
neura, F. Muell. A shrub, the young shoots m E 
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