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the filaments, however, appears to be a character of sufficient importance 
to justify the formation of a new genus. The stamen bundles vary 
in number between 8 and 16 and it seems likely that the number 
increases by the splitting up of some of the coalescent portions as the 
flower becomes older, but even in fully opened flowers the bundles 
are quite distinct and have numerous free upper portions each bearing 
a bilocular anther. The arrangement and structure of the whole 
androecium support the view that the bundles represent united, 
not branched filaments. Throughout the family Myrtaceae we find a 
number of scattered genera with the stamens aggregated in phalanges, 
but as a rule the number of phalanges is definite and each phalange 
has a definite orientation with regard to a petal. In Tistania, for 
example, there are 5 groups of stamens opposite to the petals. For 
the material on which this account of the genus Pareugenia is based 
Kew is indebted to that distinguished naturalist and statesman Sir 
Everard im Thurn, K.C.M.G., by whom it was met in the course of 
his official duties while Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of 
the Western Pacific. To his field note we owe our knowledge of the 
habit of the species ; the precise locality in Fiji in which the specimens 
were collected has not been recorded.—W. B. TurRRILL. 
Fic. 1, flower-bud ; 2, longitudinal section of flower with the perianth removed ; 
3, phalange of stamens; 4, anthers; 5, transverse section of ovary. All enlarged. 
