124 MYRTACEAE. [Metrosideros. 
pedately 5-nerved, the nerves dichotomous, all more or less hispid with 
short coarse hairs; the basal sinus broad and open. Stipules broad, 
fleshy, adnate to the base of the petiole. Panicle terminal, the grooved 
rhachis 2—3 ft. high, hirsute and scabrous, branching from near the base, 
the undivided branches 4—7‘ long, at last patent, covered in their entire 
length with scattering or clustered sessile flowers. Bracts linear, scarious, 
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raised line along the inner face. Petals 2, alternate with the calycine 
lobes and twice as long, cucullate, receiving the 2 short opposed stamens. 
Pollen grains 4-lobed. Styles opposite the stamens and nearly twice their 
ength, subconnate at the base. Drupe ovoid, 11/2—2”, yellow or reddish, 
crowned with the calycine lobes, the crustaceous putamen 3- or 4-angled. 
Embryo subcordate. — Gray, Bot. U. 8. E. E. p. 629, pl. 78, 79. 
s _ and western slope of Mt. Kaala! Oahu; oe hafibanes pol Molokai; above 
Lahaina! Maui; summit of Kohala range, Ha waii; hakupili, Kauai Wawra); at 
altitudes of 2500 to 5000 rs Nat. name pe. Probably es largest species of the genus 
Bp. Leaves nearly glabrous; bracts ovate or oblong, 3—4". 
Kauai (U. 8. E. E 
OrperR XXXI. MYRTACEAE. 
oe -tube adhering to the ovary and often projecting above it, the 
of 4 or 5 or rarely more lobes or teeth. Petals as many, inserted 
usually indefinite, sometimes ce many any he petals, 
curved inward in ud, free, or variously Anthers small, 
2-celled. Ovary inferior, 2—5- e-celled, rarely 1-celled by incom- 
pleteness or failure of the partitions. Ovules 2 or more in each cell, or 
solitary, the placentas axile. Fruit dry or succulent, dehiscent or 
indehiscent. Seeds without albumen. Embryo straight or curved. — 
Trees or shinbe: Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, entire, generally 
with a marginal nerve, almost always dotted. Flowers axillary or terminal. — 
A —_ Order, widely spread over South America, tropical and Sadana’ pve and 
Asia, and pe es lly Australia, with a few South- -African, North-American and one Euro- 
In Sabivation Cpe communis, the common Myrtle, Punica Granatum, the Pome- 
granate, Barringtonia speciosa and several species of Eucaly supiey oe ally £. globulus. 
acapsule . : ; : : . . Metrosideros. 
Fruit a pet 
Calyx 4—lobed or toothed; 1 or 2 1 seeds 2. Eugenia. 
Calyx pare and closed in the bud, ie irregularly as the 
t opens; seeds many 3, Psidium. 
i. METROSIDEROS, Banks. 
_ Calyxtube adnate to the ovary near the base, the lobes slightly — 
imbricate. Petals 5, patent. Stamens numerous, many times longer than 
