MYRTACEM, 361 



22. Baeckea h} — Flowers nearly of Leptospermum ] sepals 5, 

 persistent. Stamens 5-10, or oo ; filaments either filiform or scarcely 

 complanate (Eitryomyrtus^), or all or 5 petaloidly dilated (Binzia^), 

 sometimes at base partly connate {Hypocalymna ^) ; anthers various 

 in form. Germen 2, 3-locnlar; ovules 1, 2, superposed, or 3 

 (SchoUzia^), or 2-4, or oo , either collateral, inserted on vertical more 

 or less prominent and 2-lamellate placenta, or disposed in a ring 

 around peltate more or less stipitate placenta. Fruit, etc., of Lepto- 

 spermum ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo small ; slender collum 

 inflexed to thick radicle. — Ericoid glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite ; 

 flowers ^ axillary, cymose or spuriously umbellate or capitate, rarely 

 solitary, bracteate and bracteolate.^ [Australia^ New Caledonia^ 

 Indian Archip. south-east, Asia.^ 



23? Astartea DC.® — Flowers of Bmclcea] stamens oo , 5-adelphous; 

 groups alternipetalous. — Ericoid shrubs ; leaves, small opposite gla- 

 brous, and other characters of Bceckea ; flowers ^^ axillary solitary or 

 cymose few; pedicels 2-bracteolate.'^ (West, and trop, Australia}^) 



24, Balaustion Hook.^^ — Flowers rather large; receptacle very 

 concave suburceolate ; disk lining receptacle and produced beyond in 

 a thin entire submembranous ring interior to base of stamens and 



1 L. Gen. n. 491. — J. Gen. 321. — Lamk. Diet. 62 {Leptospermum).—'RuDG. Trans, linn. Soc. 

 vii. 689; III. t. 285.— DC. Prodr. iii. 229.— yiii. 298, t. IS (Schidiomi/rttcs).— Asb-r. JBot.He- 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 146.— Endl. Gen. n. pos. t. 598.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 405.— 

 6311.— H. Bx Payer Fam. Nat. 366.— B. H. Br. et Gb. ^w«. -Sc. iV'a^. ser. 5, ii. 140.— Benth. 

 Gen. 701, n. 13 (incl. : Bablngtonia LrsDL.Juu- Fl. Hongh. 118; Fl. Austral, iii. 66 {Scholtzia) , 

 gia G.ERTX. Earmogia Schau. Hypocalymna 71, 91 {Hypocalymna). — Walp. Pep. ii. 169, 

 Endl. /S'cAo/ifzmScHAU.). — Hook. J'/. //^^.ii. 463. 920; v. 734; Ann.\\. 617. (To this genus is 



2 Schau. Linncea, xvii. 239 (part). doubtfully referred (B. H. Gen. 6) Aphanomyr- 

 ^ Schau. loc. cit. tus (Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 480;— Walp. 

 ^ Endl. Hueg. Enum. 30.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. Ann. iv. 853). 



15. 9 Prodr. iii. 210 ; Pict. CI. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 



* Schau. Linncea, xvii. 241.— B. H. Gen. 400.— Endl. Gen. n. 628'J.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. 

 700, n. n. — Piptandra Tvncz. Bull. Mosc. 11. 



(1862), ii. 323 (not Oliv.). lo Small, white or pink. 



^ Small, white or pale pink. ii A _genus differing from Schidiomyrtiis, a 



" Sect. 8 (ex B. H. 6) : 1. Rinzia, 2. Euryo- sect, of Bceckea^ only in its stamens being more 



myrtus, 3. Jungia (G^rtn. Fruct. i. 175, t. 35 — or less connate in 5 groups. (B. H.) 



Mollia Gmel. Syst. A20—Imbricaria S^.—Schi- ^^ Spec. 3. Labill. PI. N.-Holl.i. 170 {Mela- 



diomyrtus ScHAv.), 4:. Harmogia {ScHAv. Linncea, leuca). — Endl. Hueg. Enum. 51 (Bceckea). — 



xxvii. 238 — Camphoromyrtus Schau.), 5. Oxy- Spreng. Syst. ii. 492 {Leptospermnm). — Schav. 



myrrhine (Schau. Linncea^ xxvii. 240), 6. Baling- PL Preiss. i. 113-115. — F. Muell. Fragm. i. 83 ; 



tonia (LiNDL. Bot. Reg. [1842], t. \0—Tetrapora ii. 32.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 89.— Walp. Rep. 



ScuAv. —Ericomyrtus TuRCZ.) (add. : 7. Scholt- ii. 160, 922 ; v. 738. 



zia, 8. Hypocalymna). ^^ Icon. t. 852. — B. H. Gen. 702, n. 16. — 



* Spec, about 70. Rudge, Trans. Linn. Soc. Cheynia J. Drumm. Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 56. 

 viii. 1. 12-14. — Labill. Sert. Austro-caled. t. 61, 



