MY RT ACE JE. 365 



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

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

 or peltate (Eidristania) 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, qo -spermous. Seeds cuneate or attenuate above or 

 alato-dilated ; cotyledons of straight exalburainous embryo plano- 

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

 with various integument ; leaves alternate or subverticillate, more 

 rarely (Neriopht/llum) opposite, oftener coriaceous; flowers 1 in axil- 

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

 bracteate. (Australia, New Caledonia, Indian Archip. 2 ) 



31. Metrosideros Banks. 3 — 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 4 ). Petals 5, alternate, 

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

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

 complete or incomplete. Ovules go , sometimes few (Tepualia 5 ). or 

 1 (Sarcynpia 6 ) transverse or ascending or descending, inserted in a 

 vertical or capitate, clavate or peltate (Xanthostemon 7 ), 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 8 cymose ; cymes axillary or terminal more or less compound, 



1 White, orange or yellowish. Bat. i. p. i. 399 ; Jouni. Bot. Nterl. (1861) 297. 



2 Spec, about 20. Bonpl. Malmais. t. 30.— 4 Br. et Gr. Nouv. Arch. Mus. iv. 20, t. 8 , 

 Benn. Pl.Jav. Ear. 127, t. 27.— Hiq. Fl. Ind.- Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, xiii. 387. 



But. i.p. i. 397. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 261.— 6 Griseb. Pfl. Philipp. 31; Abh. K. Wiss. 



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

 228 ; xiii. 383 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. iv. 12, t. 5 6 The typo of which is Syncarpia laurifolia. 



(Tristaniopsis).—Bot. Beg. t. 1839.— Bot. Mag. 7 F. Muell. Rook. KewJoum. ix. 17. — B. H. 



1. 1058 (Melaleuca).— Walp. Rep. ii. 160, 927 : Gen. 711, n. 39.— Benth. Hook. Icon. t. 1040.— 



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



3 Gœrtn. Fruct. i. 170, t. 34 (part).— Lamk. 205 (ex B. H.).— Frcmya'BR. et Gr. Bull. Soc. 

 III. t. 421.— Poir. Diet. Suppl. iii. 679.— DC. Bot. Fr. x. 374; Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, ii. 131 ; 

 Prodr. iii. 224.— Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 138. — iii. ^27 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. ir. 17, t. 7. 



Endl. Gen. n. 6303 (part). — H. B. Payer Fam. 8 Oftener showy, orange, golden or red, 



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

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



