MYRTACEM. 361 



22. Bseckea L.' — Flowers nearly of Leptospermum ; sepals 5, 

 persistent, Stamens 5-10, or go ; filaments either filiform or scarcely 

 complanate (Euryomyrtus ^), or all or 5 petaloidly dilated (Binzia % 

 sometimes at base partly connate {Hypocalymna *) ; anthers various 

 in form. Germen 2, 3-locular; ovules 1, 2, superposed, or 3 

 (Scholtzia^), or 2-4, or co , either collateral, inserted on vertical more 

 or less prominent and 2-lamellate placenta, or disposed in a ring 

 around peltate more or less stipitate placenta. Fruit, etc., of Lepto' 

 spermum ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo small ; slender collum 

 inflexed to thick radicle. — Ericoid glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite ; 

 flowers ^ axillary, cymose or spuriously umbellate or capitate, rarely 

 solitary, bracteate and bracteolate.' (Australia, New Caledonia, 

 Indian Archip. south-east. Asia.^ 



23? Astartea DC.' — Flowers of Bcechea; stamensoo , 5-adelphous; 

 groups alternipetalous. — Ericoid shrubs ; leaves, small opposite gla- 

 brous, and other characters of Bmckea ; flowers '° axillary solitary or 

 cymose few; pedicels 2-bracteolate." {West, and trop. Australia}^) 



24. Balaustion Hook." — Flowers rather large; receptacle very 

 concave suburceolate ; disk lining receptacle and produced beyond in 

 a thin entire submembranous ring interior to base of stamens and 



^ L. Gen. n. 491. — J. Gen. 321. — Lamk. Diet. 62 [Leptospermimi) .—'B.VDQt. Trims. Linn. Soc. 



■rii. 689; III. t. 285.— DC. Prodr. iii. 229.— yrii.29%,t.\i{Schidiomyrtus).—Xi!iT>n.JBot.JB.e- 



Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 146. — Endl. Gen. n. pos. t. 598. — ^MiQ. M. Ind.Bat. i. p. i. 405. — 



6311.— H. Bn. Fayer Fam. Nat. 366.— B. H. Br. et Gb. ^«m. Sc. A'a*. ser. 5, ii. 140.— Benth. 



Gen. 701, n. 13 (incl. : Sahingtonia Lindl./m«- Fl. Bongk. 118; Fl. Austral, iii. 66 {Scholtma), 



gia GrM^im. Sarmogia Sohau. Sypocalymna 71, 91 {Sypocalymna). — Walp. Mep. ii. 169, 



Endl. &Aoto»aScEAu.). — Hook. J/. /«<?. ii. 463. 920; v. 734; Ann.ii. 617. (To this genus is 



2 Sohau. Zinncea, xvii. 239 (part), doubtfully referred (B. H. Gen. 6) Aphanomyr- 



3 ScHATJ. loc. cit. tus (Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 480;— Walp. 



* Endl. Eueg. Enum. 30.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. Ann. iv. 853). 



15. ' Frodr. in. 210; Diet. CI. d' Sist. Nat. ni. 



* Schatj. Linnaa, xvii. 241.— B. H. Gen. 400.— Endl. Gen. n. 628y.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. 

 700, n. 12. — Piptmidra Turoz. Full. Mosc. 11. 



(1862), ii. 323 (not Oliv.). i» Small, white or pink. 



^ Small, white or pale pink. ^' A genus differing from Sehidiomyrtus, a 



' Sect. 8 (ex B. H. 6) : 1. Einzia, 2. Fv/ryo- sect, of FteeJcea, only in its stamens heing more 



myrtus, 3. Jungia (G^iertn. Fruct. i. 175, t. 35 — or less connate in 5 groups. (B. H.) 



MolHa Gmel. Syst. i20—Imdricaria Sm. — Sehi- ^^ Spec. 3. Labill. Fl. N.-Holl. t. 170 [Mela- 



diomyrtusScKAV.),i, Sarmogia {BcKAV.Linntea, leuea). — Endl. Sueg, Flnum, 51 {Beeekea). — ^^ 



xxvii. 238 — Camphoromyrtus Sohau.), 6. Oxy- Spreng. Syat. ii. 492 {leptospermum).— ScsAV. 



myrrhine{ScsAV.ZinncEa,:K7cyii.2iO),6.BaMng- PI. Freiss.i. 113-115.— F. MuELL.i?»-ffi?ffs.i. 83; 



tonia (LiNDL. Bot. Beg. [1842], 1. 10— Tetrapora ii. 32.— Bekth. Fl. Austral, iii. 89.— Walp. Rep. 



Sohau. — Frieomyrtas Turcz.) (add.: I.Seholt- ii. 160, 922; v. 738. 



zia, 8. Bypocalymma). " loon. t. 852.— B. H. Gen. 702, n. 16.— 



8 Spec, about 70. Eudge, Trans. Linn. Soc. Cheynia J. Drumm. Book. Kew Journ. vii. 56. 



viii. t. 12-14. — Laeij,!. Sort. Austro-oaled. t. 61, 



