LIT. MTRTAOEiE. 



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nerved, with an intrcamarginal vein, almost always pellucid- 

 dotted and aromatic or resin-scented, exstipulate. Flowers 

 solitary or in cymes panicles or heads.— The Order is very 

 abundant in South America aud Australia, much less so m 

 Asia, and very scantily represented in Africa. 



Tribe 1. LEPTOSPERMEiE. Fruit dry, capsular, many-celled, dehiscent. 

 Stamens much-exserted, free. Capsules 2-3-celled . 1. Metrosideros. 



Tribe 2. Mtrte.e. Fruit a fleshy berry. Leaves dotted. 

 Caiyx-limb almost entire or repand. Petals concrete 



intoacalyptra ^ ' / ^- S^'"'^^^^" 



Calyx-limb more or less deeply 4-5-parted. Petals 

 separate. 



Calyx-tube turbinate. Petals 5. Flowers ni ter- 



mmal cymes 3. Acmena. 



Calvx-tube globose. Petals 4 (very rarely 5). Pe- 

 duncles axillary 4. Eugenia. 



Tribes 3. BARRiNaTONiE.E. Fruit berried or dry, valveless. Leaves 

 witliout pellucid dots. 

 Petals 4. Stamens in many rows, connate at base . 5. Barringtonia. 



Tribe 1. LEPTOSPERMEiE. 

 1. METROSIDEROS, R. Br. 



Calyx-tube adhering to the ovary, not angular ; limb 5-cleft. 

 Stamens 20-30, free, very long, exserted. Style filiform. 

 Capsules 2-3-celled; cells many-seeded. Seeds wingless.— 

 Fl. Cap. ii. p. 521. 



Trees or shrubs.— Ji". avgustifoUa, Sm., our only species, is common by 

 riversides in many parts of the colony. Its leaves are Imear-lanceolate ; 

 peduncles axillary, umbellate. Flowers yellowish. 



Tribe 2. Mtrteje. 

 2. SYZYGIUM, Grfertn. 



Calyx-tube obovate ; limb nearly entire or repandly-lobed. 

 Petals 4-5, roundish, joined into a cap (or calyptra) and frilling 

 off either in that state from the calyx, or immediately after 

 expansion. Stamens numerous, distinct. Ovary 2-ce ed, 

 with few ovules in each cell ; style simple. Berry 1-celled, 

 1- or few-seeded. Seed globose; cotyledons large, fleshy, 

 nearly hemispherical ; radicle small, inserted between the co- 

 tyledons below the middle, and concealed by them.— i</. tap. 

 \lp. 521. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, quite entire, glabrous.—^, cordalum, 

 Ilochst., our only species, is a Natal tree, 30-40 ft. high, with subsessile, 

 elliptic-cordate, leathery leaves, veiny and paler beneath. Cymes termmul, 

 many-tlowered. 



