"CO NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



more or less stipitate, sometimes collected in spurious capitules 

 (Syncarpia 1 ). 2 (Oceania from Indian Archipelago to New Zealand? 

 South Africa, Chili. 4 ) 



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

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

 cate. Stamens go , 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 G solitary or oftener 

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

 other characters of Metrosideros. 7 {New Caledonia.*) 



33 ? Arillastrum Panch. 9 — Flowers nearly of Metrosideros (or 

 Tristania), 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).— Wali\ Sep. 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. (JSynearpia), 826. 



Suppl. prœf. 8, t. 1. * Spec. 1. C. Gay, Fl. CHI. 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 6 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. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. 68.— Benth. et Gr. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. x. 576 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. 



Fl. Austral, iii. 266 ; Gen. 709, n. 34 ; Booh. le. sér. 5, ii. 134 ; Nvuv. Arch. Mus. iv. 16, t. 6.— 



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

 rile reniform. 6 Moderate or small. 



3 Labill. Sert. Justro-caled. t. 59, 60. — Hook. 7 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. Toy. Bot. t. 108, 109. distinct only by its short stamens and petals. 

 — F. Muell. Fragm.i. 243. — Mia. 77. Ind.-Bat. 8 Spec, about 8, polymorphous, Seem. Journ. 

 i. p. i. 401.— A. Gray, Unit. St.Fxpl.Fxp.Bot. Bot. ii. 74 (Bœcha). 



i. t. 68-70.— Hook. f. Fl. N.-Zeal. t. 15-17 ; 9 Ex Br. et Gr. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. x. 574.— 



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



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



(Syncarpia), 267, 268 {Xanthostcmon). — Bot. iv. 22, t. 9.— B. H. Gen. 710, a. 37. 

 Mag. t. 4515, 4471, 448S.— Bcv. Port. (1865) 



