MYRTACEJE. 369 



anthers small, versatile, 2-rimose. Germen inferior, 2-locular, style 

 simple, at stigmatose apex rather obtuse. Ovules in subcomplete or 

 incomplete cells go , 2-seriate. Fruit dry (?) indehiscent, crowned 

 with calyx ; seeds 1, 2, obovoid ; coats thin ; cotyledons of straight 

 embryo plano-convex and longer than radicle. — A glabrous shrub ; * 

 leaves opposite obovate-oblong penninerved coriaceous ; ^ flowers 

 ixillary or terminal, solitary or glomerate, 3-nate, hoary tomentose ; 

 bracteoles caducous.^ {Trojp. Australia,^) 



in. CHAM^LAUCIE^. 



38. Chamaelaucium Desf. — Flowers hermaphrodite or sometimes 

 polygamous ; receptacle concave, obconical or campanulate, sometimes 

 5-10-costate. Sepals 5, marginally inserted, short, imbricate, finally 

 3atent, sometimes ciliate or subpetaloid. Petals 5, alternate, longer, 

 3rbicular, concave, imbricate. Stamens 10, inserted 2-seriately with 

 perianth and alternating with as many elongate incurved glandular 

 ^quamules ('' staminodes ") ; filaments short thick incurved, free or 

 ^^ery shortly connate at base ; anthers short or subglobose extrorse ; 

 3ells adnate to thick connective, dehiscing by a short longitudinal 

 issure. Germen inferior, adnate to receptacle within, 1-locular; 

 5tyle erect, oftener shorter than the perianth, often stigmatose and 

 variously dilated under apex, barbate with rigid glandular simple 

 lairs. Ovules in cell 6-10, sometimes 2-seriate, inserted on sub- 

 )asilar or oblique eccentric placenta, ascending, anatropous ; micro- 

 )yle extrorsely inferior. Fruit crowned with persistent calyx, dry, 

 ndchiscent ; seeds ascending 1,2; embryo . . . ? — Ericoid pellucid- 

 mnctate odorous shrubs ; leaves opposite or rarely alternate, linear 

 intire ; flowers axillary to leaves or to bracts inserted at top of twigs, 

 essile or shortly stipitate, solitary or few cymose ; inflorescence ter- 

 dnal sometimes capituliform ; bracts widely scarious enclosing the 

 )ud and falling before or at anthesis. {South-west, Australia), — See 

 ..321. 



39. Darwinia Rudge.^ — Flowers nearly of Chamcelaucmm, 5- 



1 Except flowers. ^ Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 299, t. 22 (not Denxst.) . 



' Nearly of Lumnitzera. —Don, Edinb. New Phil. Joiirn. (Apr. 1829), 



3 Gen. connecting the MyrtacecB with the 84.— Schau. 31yrt. Xeroc. t. 2 D.— Exdl. Gen. 



hizophoracece and Combretacca. n. 6282.— B. H. Gen. 697, n. 2.— H. Bx. Adan- 

 * Spec. 1. 0. octodonta F. Muell.— Bknth. sonia, xi. 3 (incl. : GenetylUs DC. Schuermannia 



'ook. Ic. n. 1041 ; Fl. Austral, iii. 271. F. Muell. 

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