MYRTACEJE, 371 



42. Verticordia DO.^ — Flowers nearly of Chamcdaudvm^ recep- 

 tacle externally 5-10-costate. Sepals^ 5, patent, deeply divided into 

 bristly plumose or pectinate-ciliate lobes (sometimes in addition 5 

 exterior alternate, herbaceous or deeply ciliate scarious and reflexed). 

 Petals 5, entire, or fimbriate. Stamens 10, alternating with as many 

 glandules ; anthers short, poricid or shortly rimose. Germen 1- 

 locular ; ovules 1, 2 or more rarely 3-10, inserted on basilar or eccen- 

 tric placenta, erect or ascending, anatropous or peritropous ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit crowned with calyx, indehiscent (?). Seed 

 1; embryo fleshy (undivided?^), — Shrubs; leaves opposite or very 

 rarely alternate, often cricoid, etc., of Chamcelaucium ; flowers in 

 upper axils solitary or in spikes, racemes or terminal corymbs ; brae- 

 teoles 2, subscarious, imbricate and enclosing the bud, falling long 

 before anthesis. Other characters of Ghamcelaucium.^ (Australia.^) 



43. Pileanthus Labill.^ — Flowers nearly of Chamcelaucium^ 

 sepals 10, petaloid, subequal, entire, patent. Stamens 20 and upwards, 

 one interior to each sepal ; the rest 4-oo interior to each petal ; fila- 

 ments dilated or 2 -furcate at apex ; anther- cells longitudinally rimose, 

 contiguous or very remote in furcate filaments. Germen, etc., of 

 Chamcelaucium ; ovules 6-10, inserted on eccentric basilar placenta, 

 2-seriate. — Ericoid shrubs ; leaves oftener opposite linear, S-quetrous 

 or terete ; flowers terminal corymbose ; upper leaves 1-florous ; brao- 

 teoles broad scarious enclosing bud, falling early circumscissus above 

 the base. [South-west. Australia,^) 



44? Lhotzkya Schau.® — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle lagenif or m 



1 Diet. Class, xi. 400; xvi. 565; Frodr. iii. :Bot. ii. t. 13 {Chrysorrhoe) , 14. — Turcz. MIL 

 209.— Spach, Suit, a Bt/fon, iv. 110.— Endl. Mosc. {18i9)n. 19.— F.1s1vej.u Trans. Vict. Inst. 

 Gen.n. 6279.— H.Bs.Patjer Fam. Nat. Z68.—B. 122; Fragm.i. 164, 226; iv. 58; v. 14; viii. 182. 

 H. Gen. C97, n. 4. — Chrysorrhoe Lindl. Comp. to — Benth. Fl. Austral. lii. 16. — Bot.Mag. t. 5286. 

 Bat. Mag. ii. 357 ; Sw. Riv. App. t. 1 ; Hook. — Walp. Eep. ii. 154 ; v. 730 ; Ann. ii. 616. 

 Journ. Hot. ii. t. IZ.—Liplachne R. Br, mss. ex ^ PL N.-SolL ii. 11, t. 149.— DC. Prodr. iii. 

 ScHAu. 209.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. HI.— Endl. 



2 Generally coloured. Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 196 ; Gen. n. 6278.— Schau. 



3 liadicle very macropod ; gemmule (?) very Myrt. Xeroc. 77, t. 5, fig. A. B. — B. H. Gen. 

 I small incumbent (?), undivided or 2-lol3ed. 698, n. 5. 



** Petals white pink or sometimes yellow. « Spec. 3. J. Ann. Mus. xix. 432. — Desf. Mem. 



« Sect, (ex Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. t. 4 B) in 2 Mus. v. t. 3.— F. Muell. Fragm. i. 225.— 



gen.: l.Calymmatanthus; appendages of calyx 'Mbissv. Journ. Zinn.Soc.i.io. — Benth. i^/.^lM6- 



3omo8e ; 2. EuvcrticorcUa ; appendages 0. tral. iii. 34. — Walp. Rep. ii. 157 ; v. 731. 



•Spec, about 39. Desf. Mem. Mm. v. t. 4, 19 » Linna^a, x. 309 ; LindL Introd. ed. 2, 493 ; 



'Chamcelaucium). — Lindl. loc. cit. t. 2 A. — J/yr^. X(?roc. t. 7.— Endl. (76;*. n. 6276.— B. H. 



■sCHAr. Lehm. PL Preiss. i. 99.— Hook. Journ. Gen. 609, n. 8. 



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