MYRTACEjE. 365 



3-locular ; style simple, at apex truncate or more or less dilated stig- 

 matose. Ovules in cells go , inserted on a vertical or thick squamiform 

 or peltate {Eutristania) entire or more or less 2-lobed placenta, hori- 

 zontal or descending, straight recurved or reflexed. Capsule free or 

 more or less adnate to receptacular tube, loculicidal above ; valves 

 septate within, go -spermous. Seeds cuneate or attenuate above or 

 alato-dilated ; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous embryo plano- 

 convex, longer than ascending radicle. — Trees or shrubs glabrous or 

 with various integument ; leaves alternate or subverticillate, more 

 rarely (Neriophf/llum) opposite, oftener coriaceous ; flowers * in axil- 

 lary or terminal more or less ramose, sometimes corymbiform cymes, 

 bracteate. (Australia^ Neiu Caledonia^ Indian Archijp.^) 



31. Metrosideros Banks.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 concave, of various form; sometimes subplane. Sepals 5, slightly 

 imbricate or valvate, more or less connate, sometimes unequally 

 lacerate or calyptrately solute (Pleurocalyptus ^), Petals 5, alternate, 

 imbricate. Stamens oo , longer than petals, free or subfree ; anthers 

 short, versatile. Germen inferior, semi-superior or superior; cells 3, 

 complete or incomplete. Ovules oo , sometimes few {Tepualia^). or 

 1 {Sarcijnjpia ^) transverse or ascending or descending, inserted in a 

 vertical or capitate, clavate or peltate (Xanthostemon'^), transverse or 

 oblique, entire or more or less 2-lobed placenta. Fruit capsular, or 

 more or less adnate to receptacle loculicidal or sometimes irregularly 

 dehiscent above. Seeds oo , oftener ascending, imbricate, linear or 

 occasionally cuneate, more rarely semi-orbiculate ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo plane, plano-convex or plicate, longer than 

 radicle. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, glabrous or tomentose ; 

 leaves opposite or alternate, rarely subverticillate, penninerved; 

 flowers^ cymose; cymes axillary or terminal more or less compound, 



1 WMte, orange or yellowish. £at. i. p. i. 399 ; Journ. Sot. Nterl (1861) 297. 



2 Spec, about 20. Bonpl. Malmais. t. 30.— ^ Br, et Gr. Nouv. Arch. Mus. iv. 20, t. 8 , 

 Bexx. Pl.Jav. Bar. 127, t. 27.— Miq. Fl. Ltd.- Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xiii. 387. 



5rt^. i.p. i.397.— Bexth. i^/. ^e^siJra/. iii. 261.— ^ Qriseb. Pfl. Philipp. 31; Jbk. K. Wiss. 



Br. et Gr. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, ii. 130; iii. Goett. vi.— B. H. Gen. 710, n. 36. 



228 ; xiii. 383 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. iv. 12, t. 5 ^ xhe type of which is Syncarpia laurifolia. 



{Tristaniopsis).—Bot. Reg. t. \%Z9.—Bot. Mag. ^ F. Muell. Eook. Eew Journ. ix. 17. — B.H. 



1. 1058 {Melaleuca).— WiLh-p. Rep. ii. 160, 927 : Gen. 711, n. 39.— Bexth. Eook. Icon. t. 1040.— 



V. 744 ; Ann. ii. 621. ? Braparnaudia Moxtrouz. Mem. Acad. Lyon. x. 



3 Gartn. Fruct. i. 170, t. 34 (part).— Lamk. 205 (ex B. H.) .—i^rmy a Br. et Gr. Bull. Soe. 



III. t. 421.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. iii. 679.— DC. Rot. Fr. x. 374; Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, ii. 131 ; 



Rrodr. iii. 224.— Spach, Suit, a Ruffon, iv. 138.— iii. 22^7 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. iv. 17, t. 7. 



ExDL. Gen. n. 6303 (part).— H. B. Payer Fam. » Oftener showy, orange, golden or red, 



Nat. 366.— B. H. Gen. 710, n. 38,— E. Tisox, generally articulate. 



Bull. Soc. Lin. Par. 102.— Nania Miq. Fl. hid. 



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