* Fenzlia.] XLVIII. MYRTACER, 279 
Teaves usually glabrous above. Calyx-tube and fruit at length glabrous or 
` moderately ceri ovoi cow eque te dt oDIME 
` Lego tomentose on both sides, usually small. CONI N and fruit ‘ey 
tomentose, de s . 2. F. retusa. ` 
L P. obtusa, Edi, Atakta, 19. t. 17. A low bushy M the young 
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Short, sometimes 3 to 4 lines long, with a pair of subulate bracteoles under 
the calyx. cale pink. Calyx tomentose, the tube ovoid-oblong, about 
. llinelong; lobes narrow lanceolate-subulate, usually rie than the tube 
. wd united at the base in a short open limb. Petals obovate, 2 to 3 lines 
i , pubescent or nearly glabrous. Stamens shorter than the etals. Fruit 
E rey han, ovoid, 2 to 3.lines ee glabrous or tomentose. Seeds usually 
S Queensland. Shoalwater Bay Passage, Broad Sound, etc., R. Brown; Cape Xue 
: äech W. Hill ; Islands of Torres Straits, Hutchinson, C. Moore; Rockingh 
Lo Ver microphylla. Leaves 3 to 4 lines long.—Dividing ranges between Thomson and 
P n E Sutherland (a small fragment and another in Bowman’s collection in 
(OE retusa, Endl, Atakta, 20. t.18. Very near F. obtusa, but much 
more Tout Leaves usually but not always smaller, mostly 
nder 3 in. long, in the origi 
KE x-tube more globular than in F. obtusa and densely tomentose, 
: the lobes SE than the SES Petals tomentose outside, not so uch 
1 tracted at the base in ou specimens as represented i in the plate. Fruit 
` Gë almost globular, esch smaller than in F. obtusa, more or less 
E Mueller N, Australia, Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Victoria river, F. 
B 42. NELITRIS, Gertn. 
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E hi © or KSC campanile not at all or scarcely regen above the ovary ; 
Petals 4 or 5, spreading. Stamens numerous, in several 
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minal -— pa tege: 
T ispersed over tropical Asia, especially the Indian emer op the € 
Da Y" Aston s sities apparently identical Wan the commonest Asiatic one. 
ied to Myrtus, but readily distinguished by th bb? of cells 
m 0 N. paniculata a Lindl. Collect. under n. E A shrub or small tree, 
Young shoots and” inflorescence silky-pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 
