MyRTACEM. ggg 



S-locular; style simple, at apex truncate or more or less dilated stig- 

 matose. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on a vertical or thick squamiform 

 or peltate {Eutristania) entire or more or less 2-lobed placenta, hori- 

 zontal or descending, straight recurved or reflexed. Capsule free or 

 more or less adnate to receptacular tube, loculicidal above ; valves 

 septate withm, co -spermous. Seeds, cuneate or attenuate above or 

 alato-dilated; cotyledons of straight exalbuminous embryo plano- 

 convex, longer than ascending radicle.— Trees or shrubs glabrous or 

 with various integument; leaves alternate or subverticillate, more 

 rarely (iVenop%ZZttm) opposite, offcener coriaceous; flowers ' in axil- 

 lary or terminal more or less ramose, sometimes corymbiform cymes, 

 braeteate. {Australia, New Galedonia, Indian Archip?) 



31. Metrosideros Banks.'— Plowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 concave, of various form; sometimes subplane. Sepals 5, slightly 

 imbricate or valvate, more or less connate, sometimes unequally 

 lacerate or calyptrately solute (Pleurocalyptus*).' Petals 6, alternate, 

 imbncate. Stamens oo , longer than petals, free or subfree ; anthers 

 short, versatile. Germen inferior, semi-superior or superior; cells 3, 

 complete or incomplete. Ovules co , sometimes few {Tepualia'). or 

 1 (Sarcynpia «) transverse or ascending or descending, inserted in a 

 vertical or capitate, clavate or peltate (Xanthostemon'^), transverse or 

 oblique, entire or more or less 2-lobed placenta. Pruit capsular, or 

 more or less adnate to receptacle loculicidal or sometimes irregularly 

 dehiscent above. Seeds cx) , oftener ascending, imbricate, linear or 

 occasionally cuneate, more rarely semi-orbiculate ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo plane, plano-convex or plieate,. longer than 

 radicle. —Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, glabrous or tomentose ; 

 leaves opposite or alternate, rarely subverticillate, penninerved; 

 flowers' cymose; cymes axillary or terminal more or less compound 



1 Wliite, orange or yellowisK Bat. i. p. i. 399 ; Joimi. Bot. Nterl. (1861) 297. 



-' Spec, about 20. Bonpl. MaVmms. t. 30.— * Be. et Gk. THom. Arch. Mus. iv. 20, t. 8 , 



Benn. Fl. Jav. Bar. 127,, t. 27.— Mia. Fl. Ind.- Ann. 8c, Nat. sfe 5, xiii. 387. 



Bat. i. p. i. 397.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 261.— 5 Gkiseb. Pfl. PhiUpp: 31 ; Abh. K. Wiss. 



Be. et Gk. Ann. Se. Ng,t. s&. 5,. ii. 130; iii. Gastt. vi.— B. H. Gen. 7-10, n. 36. 



228 ; xiii. 383 ; Norn. Arah. Mus. iv. 12, t. 6 ^ The type of which' is Synearpia laurifoUa. 



(Tristamopsis).—Bot. Beg. t. 1839.— -Boi. Mag. 1 p. Muell. Sook. KewJourn. ix. 17.— B.H. 



1. 1058 {MeMe.uoa).—WA.fs. Bep. ii. 160, 927 : Gm. 711, n. 39.— Benth. Hook. Icon. t. 1040.— 



T. 744 ; Amt. u. 621. ? Brapavnavdia Montkouz. Mem. Acad. Lyon. jt. 



3 GcBTtn. Fruct. i. 170, t. 34 (part).- Lame. 205 (ex B. H.) .— J^j-emg/a Bb. et Gk. Bull. Soc. 



III. t. 421.— PolB. Diet. Suppl. iii. 679.— DC. Bot. Fr. x. 374; Ann, Se. Nat. ser. 5, ii. 131; 



Frodr. iu. 224.— SfaoH, Suit, a Buffon, br. 138.— iii. ii27 ; Norn. Arch. Mus. iv. 17, t. 7. 



Endl. Gen. n. 6303 (part).— H. B. Payer Fam. » Oftener showy, orange, golden or red, 



Nat. 366.— B. H. Qen. 710, n. 38,— E. Tison, generally articulate. 

 Bull. Soc. Lin. Par. 102.— iV«««<5 Mia. Fl. Ind.- 



