464 Lix. MTETACBa!. (J. F. Duthie.) {LeTptospennvm. 



2. IiEPTOSFEXtinUXH, Fcyrst. 



Shrubs, rarely small trees, glabrous or siliy-pubescent. Leaves alternate, 

 entire, rigid, with 1-3 nerves or nerveless. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, or 2-3 together at the ends of the branches, rarely peduncled, sometimes 

 polygamous ; bracts broad, scarious, often imbricate, the lower ones soon falling 

 off. Calyx-tvhe broadly campanulate or turbinate,' adnate to the ovary below, 

 the free upper part broad ; lobes 5. Petals 5, spreading. Stamens oo, in a 

 single series, not longer than the petals ; anthers versatile, their parallel cells 

 bursting longitudinally; connective swollen, gland-like. Ovary inferior or 

 ^inferior, enclosed in the calyx-tube, 6- or more-celled, rarely 3- or 4-celled ; 

 style filiform, inserted in a deep depression of the ovary, sometimes short, stigma 

 capitate or peltate. Capsule usually exceeding the calyx-tube, opening locnlici- 

 daJly from above. Seeds oo, linear or winged, often sterile ; embryo straight. — 

 DisTEiB. Species upwards of 25, chiefly Australian, a few in New Zealand and 

 New Caledonia. 



1. Xi. amboinense, Blume Sijd.,^. 1100; Mus. Sot. i. 68; glabrous or 

 silky on the young parts, leaves linear-lanceolate or obovate obtuse, flowers ses- 

 sile or nearly so solitary terminal or axillary, ovary 5-ceEed. DC. Prodr. iii. 

 229 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 404. L. flavescens, Sm. in Tram. Linn. Soo. 

 iii. 262; BC. Prodr. iii. 227; Bot. Mag. 2695; Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 104, 

 var. a. Macklottia amboinenais, Korth. in Ned. Kruidh. Arch. i. 196. — Myrtus 

 amboinensis, Rumph. Serb. Amb. ii. 77, t. 18. 



Malacca ; Griffith, Mainigay, Low. — ^Distbib. Indian Archipelago, and from 

 Queenslaud to Tasmania. 



A shrub. Leaves 1 in. and smaller, 1-3-nerved or the nerves indistinct, narrowly 

 or broadly oblong or even obovate. Flowers sometimes ^ in. across. Calyx glabrous, 

 tube broadly campanulate ; lobes rather shorter than the tube. Anthers attached to 

 a purplish gland-like connective. Ovary glabrous, prominent above the calyx-tube, 

 and with a central depression round the style. 



2. Xi. javanicum, Blume Bijdr. 1100 ; Mus. Bot. i. 68 ; leaves lanceolate 

 obtuse obscurely 3-nerved tipped with a deciduous mucro, ovary 5-celled. 

 L. floribundum, Jimgh. Java i. 578. Macklottia javanica, Korth. Ned. Kruidh. 

 Arch. (1847), 196. 



MoiTLMEDf ; exposed rocks, alt. 5000 ft., Lobb. — Disteib. Java, Sumatra ? 



A shrub, J-1 ft. high. Leaves |-1 in. by J in., narrowly obovate with silky hairs 

 on the edges and beneath, midrib prominent beneath, lateral nerves soon vanishing 

 upwards. Flowers about ^ in. across, few or solitary, axillary. Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, membranous, deciduous. Anthers attached to a dark-coloured gland-like con- 

 nective. Style about ^ in. ; stigma capitate. Capside 5-celled, smooth, smaller than 

 in Miquel's specimens from Java. 



3. nXEZiAXiEUCA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire, lanceolate or 

 linear, flat or subterete, 1-3-many-nerved. Flowers in heads or spikes, each 

 sessile in the axil of a floral leaf, 6-merou8; bracts deciduoas. Calyx-tube 

 subglobose ; lobes 5, imbricate or open. Petals 5, spreading, deciduous. 

 Stamens oo, more or less united at their bases into 5 bundles opposite the petals ; 

 anthers versatile, the cells parallel and bursting longitudinally. Ovary infe- 



