MYRT.1CE.E. 371 



42. Verticordia DC. 1 — Flowers nearly of Chamœlaurium, recep- 

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

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

 exterior alternate, herbaceous or deejny ciliate scarious and retioxed). 

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

 glandules ; anthers short, poricid or shortly rimose. Germon 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, indéhiscent (?). Seed 

 1 ; embryo fleshy (undivided? 3 ). — Shrubs; leaves opposite or very 

 rarely alternate, often ericoid, etc., of Chamœlaucium ; flowers in 

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

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

 before anthesis. Other characters of Chamœlaucium. 5 (Australia. fi ) 



43. Pileanthus Labill. 7 — Flowers nearly of Chamœlaucium, 

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

 one interior to each sepal ; the rest 4-<x> 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 

 Chamœlaucium] ovules 6-10, inserted on eccentric basilar placenta, 

 2-seriate. — Ericoid shrubs ; leaves oftener opposite linear, 3-quetrous 

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

 teoles broad scarious enclosing bud, falling early circumscissus above 

 the base. (South-west. Australia. 6 ) 



44? Lhotzkya Schatj. 9 — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle lageniform 



1 Diet. Class, xi. 400; xvi. 565; Prodi: iii. Bot. ii. t. 13 [Chrysotrhoe), 14.— Turcz. Bull. 



209.— Sfach, Suit, à Biiffoii, iv. 110.— Endl. Mosc. (1849) ii. 19.— F.Muell.7V««s. Viet. lust. 



Gen.n. 6279.— H. Bx. Payer Fam. Nat. 368.— B. 122 ; Fragm. i. 164, 226; iv. 5S; v. 14; viii. 182. 



H. Gen. 197, n. 4. — Ckrysorrkoe Lixdl. Comp. to — Benth. Fl. A astral, iii. 16. — Bot. May. t. 5286. 



Bot. Mag. ii. 357 ; Sw. Biv. App. t. 1 ; Hook. — Walp. Rep. ii. 151 ; v. 730 ; Ann. ii. 616. 



Sow». Bot. ii. t. n.—Dlplachne R. Bk. mss. ox ? PI. N.-IIoll. ii. 11, t. 119.— DC. Prodi: iii. 



S-'hau. 209.— SrACH, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 111.— Endl. 



• Generally coloured. Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 196 ; Gen. n. 6278.— Sciiau. 



3 Radicle very macropod ; gemmule (?) very Myrt. Xeroi: 77, t. 5, fig'. A, B. — B. H. Gen. 



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



J Petals white pink or sometimes yellow. 8 Spec. 3. J. Ann. Mus. xix. 432. — Desf. Mem. 



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

 gen.: 1. Calymmatanthus; appendages of calyx Meissn. Journ.Zinn. Soe. i. 45. — BxKTS.Fl.Aus- 

 comose ; 2. Eiwerticordia ; appendages 0. tral. iii. 34. — Walp. Rep. ii. 157 ; v. 731. 



6 Spec, about 39. Desf. Mém. Mus. v. t. 4, 19 s Limitai, x. 309 ; Liucll. Introd, ed. 2, 493 ; 

 {Chamœlaucium). — Lindl. lue. cit. t. 2 A. — Myrt. Xeroc t. 7 . — Endl. Gen. n. G276. — J;. H. 

 Sckai-. Lehm. PL Piciss. i. 99.— Hook. Joum. Gen. 609, n. 8. 



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