Gunniane. N. O. Myrtaceee. 
TAS. COCIX. 
B2#CKEA MICRANTHA. J. D. Hook. 
Foliis obovato-triquetris obtusis quadrifariam imbricatis grosse 
punctatis glabris, floribus axillaribus solitariis subsessilibus. 
@. erecta, major. B. micrantha. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 230. 
8. humilis, procumbens. 
Has. The mountainous region about May-day Plain and the 
Black Bluff and Vale of Belvoir, Van Dieman’s Land. R. 
Gunn, Esq. (n. 306; «.—n. 815; 8.) Mr Lawrence. 
A much branched shrub, growing in mountainous regions, 
erect and 8 to 7 feet high in a; humble and prostrate in 8. 
Branches covered with the scars of the old foliage. Leaves 
closely imbricated, blunt, channelled above, rounded and keeled 
beneath, patent, crowded, glabrous, shortly petiolated, shining, 
with several large round glands or dots on each face, 2-3 lines 
long, dark green, often tipped with red. Peduncles straight, 
much shorter than the leaf. Flowers small. Calyx turbinate, 
smooth, the limb of 5 teeth, coloured and blunt at the point. 
Stamens 10, short, incurved, glabrous. Fruit shortly peduncu- 
lated, of a light brown colour, somewhat elongated, smooth, 
crowned by the five persistent teeth of the calyx. J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Leaves. f. 2, 3. Flowers. f. 4. Petal. jf. 5. Ripe 
fruit :—magnified. 
