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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



imperfectly known, range themselves doubtfully near Eugenia, from 

 which perhaps they will not all be definitively separated. The first 

 of these genera is American, likewise the second, remarkable for its 



stamens being inserted in ^^^^.^ ^Garyophyllus) aro,mtioa. 



numerous series on the re- 

 ceptacular tube. In the 

 third (which has been 

 doubtfully referred to the 

 preceding), has been placed 

 a Brazilian species and also 

 a species from New Cale- 



Fig. 289. Long. sect, of fruit. 



Fig 288. Floriferous 'branch. 



donia, the calyx of which is soniewhat different as regards alter- 

 native prefloration. 



II. LEPTOSPEEM SEEIES. 



In the genus Leptospermum ' (fig. 290-293), which has given its 

 name to quite a group of Myrtacece with dry fruit, ^ the flowers are 



Acioalyptus has ovarian cells (complete or in- 

 complete) containing numerous anatropous 

 ovules, arranged on vertical placentse ; and 

 Filioealyx, orthotropous and descending ovules, 

 inserted in each cell on a placenta nearly apical. 

 1 FoRST. Char. Gen. 71, t. 36.— J. Qen. 323.— 

 G^KTN. fruct.i. 174, t. 35 (part). — Lamk. Vict. 

 iii. 465 ; Suppl. iii. 336; III. t. 423.— DO. Prodr. 

 iii. 226 (part). — Spaoh, Suit, d Buffon, iv. 141. 



— Endl. Gen.n. 6309.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 

 367.— B. H. Gen. 703, n. 18.—Pahrioia Otmris. 

 Fruct. i. 176, t. 35.— Endl. Gen. n. 6310.— 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 464. — Pisnca?«^m«B Enbl. Gen. 

 n. 6307.— ScHATJEE, PL Preiss. i. 120. — Eoma- 

 lospermum Sohau. Liniuea, xvii. 242. — Glaphy- 

 ria Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 128. — MacMotiia 

 KoRTH. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 196. 

 ^ MyrtaoesB-xerocarpese (Schauee). 



