of the Natural Order of Myrt't. 279 



The teeth of the calyx in M. thymifoUa are permanent, and the 

 whole of that part, as well as the back of the leaves, abounds with 

 a fragrant effential oil, lodged in pellucid prominent dots. 



II. M. hypcr'idfoHa, foliis oppofitis elliptico-obloiigis uniner- 

 viis, floribus confertis, filamentis longifTimis linearibus 

 apicc radiato-multifidis. 



The moft beautiful of the genus. It grows in fwampy ground, 

 and is found like all I have now defcribed, except the firftlpeciesi 

 in New South Wales. M. hypericlfol'ia is plentiful in the Englim 

 gardens, and was generally taken for an Hypericum, till it lately pro- 

 duced, in feveral colledlions near London, its elegant flowers. Thefe 

 grow in a cylindrical form round the branches, and have fome re- 

 femblance to thofe of my Meirofideros lanceolata (commonly called 

 carina), occafioned by the radiated crimfon filaments projeding in 

 every direaion. The claws of thofe filaments are very lor.g, lin'^ar, 

 and of a dull yellowifli hue hke the petals. 



7. MYRTUS Linn.—Gartn, Sent. i. 38. Juf. Gen. 324. 



IcosANDRIA Monogynia. , 



Char. Gen. Calyx 5-fidus, fuperus. Petala 5. Bacca bi- 

 vel tri-locularis. Semlna plurima, gibba. 



Few genera are more confufed in the works of Linnsus than 

 Myrtus, The above charaders will ferve to define all that pro- 

 perly belong to this genus, of which I have received from New 

 South Wales the following two fpecies only. 



^ I. Myrtus 



