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22. Bseekea L. 1 — Flowers nearly of Leptospermum', sepals 5, 

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

 complauate (Eiiryomyrtus°~), or all or 5 petaloidly dilated (Rinzia*), 

 sometimes at base partly connate (Hypocalymna 4 ) ; anthers various 

 in form. Gerrnen 2, 3-locular; ovules 1, 2, superposed, or 3 

 (SchoUzia 5 ), or 2-4, or qo , 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 

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

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

 solitary, bracteate and bracteolate. 7 (Australia, New Caledonia, 

 Lalian Archip. south-east. Asia. 8 



23? Astartea DC. 9 — Flowers of Bceckea) stamensoo , 5-adelphous; 

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

 brous, and other characters of Bœclcea ; flowers 10 axillary solitary or 

 cymose few; pedicels 2-bracteolate." (West, and trop. Australia}' 1 ) 



24. Balaustion Hook. 13 — 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. Gin. n. 491.— J. Gen. 321.— Lamk. Diet. 

 yii. 689; III. t. 285.— DC. Prodi: iii. 229.— 

 Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 146. — Endl. Gen. n. 

 6311.— H. By. Payer Fam. Nat. 366.— B. H. 

 Gen. 701, n. 13 (incl. : Babingtouia I/mm,. Jun- 

 gia G.ERTN. Harmogia Schau. Hypocalymna 

 Endl. Scholtzia Schau.). — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 463. 



2 Schau. Linnœa, xvii. 239 (part). 



3 Schau. he. cit. 



4 Endl. Hueg. Enutn. 30.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. 

 IS. 



5 Schau. Linnœa, xvii. 241. — B. H. Gen. 

 700, n. 12. — Piptandra Turcz. Bull. Mosc. 

 (1862), ii. 323 (not Oliv.). 



6 Small, white or pale pink. 



' Sect. 8 (ex B. H. 6) : 1. Sinzia, 2. Furyo- 

 myrtus, 3. Jwngia (Gjertn. Fruct. i. 175, t. 35 — 

 Mollia Gmel. Syst. 420 — Imbricaria Sm. — Schi- 

 diomyrtus Schau.), 4. Harmogia (Schau. Linnœa, 

 xxvii. 238 — Camphoromyrtus Schau.), 5. Oxy- 

 myrrhine (Schau. Linnœa, xxvii. 240), 6. Babing- 

 tonia (Lindl. Bot. Reg. [1842], t. 10— Tetrapora 

 Schau. — Fricnmyrtus Turcz.) (add.: l.Scltolt- 

 zia, 8. Hypocalymna). 



8 Spec, about 70. Budge, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

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



62 [Leptospermum). — BuDG. Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 viii. 298, t. 18 (Schidiomyrtus). — Andr. Bot. Se- 

 pos. t. 598.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 405. — 

 Br. et 6b. Ann. Se. A'at. sér. 5, ii. 140. — Benth. 

 Fl.Eongk. 118; Fl. Austral, iii. 66 [Scholtzia], 

 71, 91 [Hypocalymna).— W 'alp. Sep. ii. 169, 

 920; v. 734; Ann. ii. 617. (To this genus is 

 doulitfully referred (B. H. Gen. 6) Aphanomyr- 

 tus (Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 480;— Walp. 

 Ann. iv. 853). 



Prodr. iii. 210 ; Diet. CI. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 

 400.— Endl. Gen. n. 6289.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. 

 11. 



10 Small, white or pink. 



11 A genus differing from Schidiomyrtus, a 

 sect, of Bœckea, only in its stamens being more 

 or less connate in 5 groups. (B. H.) 



12 Spec. 3. Labill. PI. N.-Holl. t. 170 [Mela- 

 leuca). — Endl. Hueg. Fnum. 51 [Bœckea). — 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 492 [Leptospermum). — Schau. 

 PI. Preiss. i. 113-115.— F. Muell. Fragm. i. 83 ; 

 ii. 32.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 89.— Walp. Sep. 

 ii. 160, 922 ; v. 738. 



13 Icon. t. 852.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. 16.— 

 Cheynia J. Dkumm. Hoolc. Few Jour», vii. 56. 



