ICONES PLANTARUM. 3l 
duplo longiora. Stamina 20-25, pulchre aurea, uniseriata, parum inequi- 
longa, a subpollicaria, filamentis crassiusculis ; ; anthere oblonge, ver- 
iles jum semisuperum, vulgo 3-loculare; placente late peltate, 
truncate, avatis circa marginem in serie simplici annulatis reflexis. Stylus 
incurvam plus minus includentes ; ; semina abortiva ster subconformia, 
intus homogenea indurata. 
For observations on the genera figured in this and the three cree 
Plates, see notes on Myrtacee i in Journ. Linn. Soc G. Bentua 
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Calyx and ay le, une - petals removed and the stamens cut short, 
showing their insertion. 3. Ova same, vertical section. 5. The same, trans- 
verse section. 6. Placenta. 7. Saati 
PiaTe 1041. 
OSBORNIA OCTODONTA, F Muell. 
MYRTACES. 
©. octedonta, FP. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. iii. 31; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. iii. 271. 
Has. Tropical Australia ; Islands of the ite of Carpentaria, 2. Brown ; 
Port oe Armstrong ; Trinity Bay, 
Fruter erectus, ramosissimus, floribus erie glaber. Folia obovato- 
i Vv. omnesta, obtusissima v. subretusa, in petiolum brevem contracta 
riacea, penn nivenia, 3-14 po ga. Flores sessiles, in axillis solitarii v. 
, “ apices ramorum inter folia. ultima terni, bracteolis 2 tomentosis deciduis 
stipati. Calyx tomento brevi canescens, adnato angusto, 2 lin 
seriata, calyce paullo longiora ; anthere ovate, versatiles. Ovarium inferum, 
basi septo brevissimo divisum, ceterum uniloculare ; ovula plurima, adscen- 
dentia. Fructus calycis lobis coronatus, ut videtur indehiscens, exsuccus. 
Semina 1-2, obovoidea, testa tenui; embryo rectus, cotyledonibus crassis 
planiusculis v. hemispheericis, radicula longioribus.—G. BentuaM. 
Fig. 1. Flower (the stamens sg rather too Tong): 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Sta- 
mens, front and back view. 4. Ovary, v ertical sectio The same, transverse section. 
