MYRTACE2E. 3G9 



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

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

 incomplete cells oo , 2-seriate. Fruit dry (?) indéhiscent, 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 ; 2 flowers 

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

 bracteoles caducous. 3 {Trop. Australia.*) 



III. CHAMJ3LAUCIE./F. 



38. Chamselaucium Desf. — Flowers hermaphrodite or sometimes 

 polygamous ; receptacle concave, obconical or campanulate, sometimes 

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

 patent, sometimes ciliate or subpetaloid. Petals 5, alternate, longer, 

 orbicular, concave, imbricate. Stamens 10, inserted 2-seriately with 

 perianth and alternating with as many elongate incurved glandular 

 squamules (" staminodes ") ; filaments short thick incurved, free or 

 very shortly connate at base ; anthers short or subglobose extrorse ; 

 cells adnate to thick connective, dehiscing by a short longitudinal 

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

 style erect, oftener shorter than the perianth, often stigmatose and 

 variously dilated under apex, barbate with rigid glandular simple 

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

 basilar or oblique eccentric placenta, ascending, anatropous ; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit crowned with persistent calyx, dry, 

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

 punctate odorous shrubs ; leaves opposite or rarely alternate, linear 

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

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

 minal sometimes capituliform ; bracts widely scarious enclosing the 

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

 p. 321. 



39. Darwinia Rtjdge. 5 — Flowers nearly of Ghamœlaucium, 5- 



1 Except flowers. s Trans. Linn. Soc. xi.299,t. 22(notDENNST.). 



2 Nearly of Lumnitzera. — Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jtmrn. (Apr. 1829), 



3 Gen. connecting the Myrtaceœ with the 84. — Schau. JUyrt. Xeroc. t. 2D. — Endl. Gin. 

 Ehizophoraceœ and Combretacea. n. 6282. — B. H. Gen. 697, n. 2. — H. Bx. Adan- 



* Spec. 1. 0. octodonta F. Muell. — Bentii. soma, xi. 3 (incl. : Gemtyllis DC. Schuermannia 

 Soolc. Ie. n. 1041 ; Ft. Austral, iii. 271. F. Mukll. 



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