266 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



more or less stipitate, sometimes collected in spurious capitules 

 (Syncarpia^).^ (Oceania from Indian Archipelago to New Zealand,^ 

 South Africa^ Chilli) 



32 ? Mooria Montrouz.^ — Flowers nearly of Metrosideros, 5- 

 merous ; sepals slightly imbricate. Petals 5, scarcely longer, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens oo , generally subequal to petals free ; anthers 

 versatile. Germen partly sometimes almost entirely free, 3-locular. 

 Ovules in cells oo , oftener few, inserted on placenta obliquely 

 ascending from internal angle, ascending. Capsule more or less 

 adnate to receptacle, loculicidal. Seeds sometimes attenuate or alate ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo longer than radicle, oblong. — 

 Shrubs or small trees, more frequently much branched ; leaves oppo- 

 site penninerved, glabrous or tomentose ; flowers ^ solitary or oftener 

 more or less compoundly cymose, terminal or axillary at apex ; 

 other characters of MetrosiderosJ [Neiv Caledonia,^) 



33 ? Arillastrum Panch.^ — Flowers nearly of Metrosideros (or 

 Tristariia), 4-merous; receptacle concave subcampanulate. Sepals 

 decussately imbricate. Petals imbricate, finally patent, subcoriaceous, 

 externally ferruginous puberulous. Stamens oo , in 4 oppositipeta- 

 lous groups ; the exterior sterile ; anthers of fertile ones oblong 

 introrse. Germen inferior, internally adnate to receptacle, 2-locular ; 

 placentae rather prominent, 2-lobed, oo -ovulate. Fruit capsular, ad- 

 nate within to thick woody subcampanulate receptacle, crowned with 

 4 thick or broad cuneate teeth (sepals), opening loculicidally at apex 

 and finally incompletely 2-valvate. Seeds oo , of which 1 generally 



1 Ten. Mem. Soc. Ital. Moden. xxii. t. 1. — 310 {Fremya). — Walp. Eep. ii. 165 ; v. 741 ; 

 Endl. Gen. n. 6291.— B. H. Gen. 709, n. 33.— Ann. ii. 619 ; iv. 823 {Tepualia, Nania), 824 

 Kamptzia Nees, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xviii. {Syncarpia), 826. 



Suppl. prsef. 8, t. 1. 4 Spec. 1. C. Gay, Fl. Chil ii. 378 {Myrtus). 



2 Sect. 4:1. Tepualia^ 2. Nania, 3. Xantho- — Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. ii. 75. 



stemon, 4. Kamptzia, 5. Syncarpia, 6. Sarcynpia * Mem. Acad. Lyon. x. 204. — ? Ballardia 



(to which perhaps may he added Lysicarpus F. Montrouz. loc. cit. 204 (ex B. H.). — Cloezia Br. 



MuELL. Trans. Fhil. List. Vict. ii. 68. — Benth. et Gr. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. x. 576 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. 



Fl. Austral, iii. 266 ; Gen. 709, n. 34 ; Sook. le. ser. 5, ii. 134 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. iv. 16, t. 6.— 



t. 1042, differing in exterior anthers heing ste- B. H. Gen. 709. n. 35. 



rile reniform. * Moderate or small. 



^ Labill. Sert. Austro-caled. t. 59, 60. — Hook. ^ Of which perhaps only a section, a mean 



and Arn. Beech. Toy. Bot. t. 12. — Hook. Icon. between the true Metrosideros and Tepualia (?), 



t. 569. — Gaudich. Freyc. Voy. Bot. t. 108, 109. distinct only by its short stamens and petals. 



— F. MuELL. Fragm.i. 243. — Miq.. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ' Spec, about 8, polymorphous, Seem. Journ. 



i. p. i. 401. — A. Gray, Unit. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. Bot. ii. 74 (Backea). 



i. t. 68-70.— Hook. f. Fl. N.-Zeal. t. 15-17 ; « Ex Br. et Gr. Btill. Soc. Bot. Fr. x. 574.— 



Bandb. N.-Zeal. Fl. 70.— Br. et Gr. Ann. Sc. Spermolepis Br. et Gr. loc. cit. ; Ann. Sc. Nat. 



Nat. ser. 5, ii. 137.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 265 ser. 5, ii. 136 (part) ; xiii. 374 ; Nouv. Arch. Mas. 



{Syncarpia), 267, 268 {Xanthostemon). — Bot. iv. 22, t. 9.— B. H. G=ew. 710, n. 37. 

 Maff. t. 4515, 4471, 4488.— i?tfy. Mort. (1865) 



