MYRTACE^. 369 



anthers small, versatile, 2-rimose. Germen inferior, 2-locular, style 

 simple, at stigmatose apex rather obtuse. Ovules in subcomplete or 

 incomplete cells oo , 2-seriate. Fruit dry (?) indehiscent, crowned 

 vs^ith calyx; seeds 1, 2, obovoid ; coats thin; cotyledons of straight 

 embryo plano-convex and longer than radicle. — A glabrous shrub ; ' 

 leaves opposite obovate-oblong penninerved coriaceous ; ^ flowers 

 axillary or terminal, solitary or glomerate, 3-nate, hoary tomentose ; 

 braoteoles caducous.^ {Trojp. Australia.^) 



III. CHAM^LAUCIEJE. 



38. Chamaelaucium Desf. — Flowers hermaphrodite or sometimes 

 polygamous ; receptacle concave, obconical or campanulate, sometimes 

 5-10-costate. Sepals 5, marginally inserted, short, imbricate, finally 

 patent, sometimes ciliate or subpetaloid. Petals 5, alternate, longer, 

 orbicular, concave, imbricate. Stamens 10, inserted 2-seriately with 

 perianth and alternating with as many elongate incurved glandular 

 squamules (" staminodes ") ; filaments short thick incurved, free or 

 very shortly connate at base ; anthers short or subglobose extrorse ; 

 cells adnate to thick connective, dehiscing by a short longitudinal 

 fissure. Germen inferior, adnate to receptacle within, 1-locular; 

 style erect, offcener shorter than the perianth, often stigmatose and 

 variously dilated under apex, barbate with rigid glandular simple 

 hairs. Ovules in cell 6-10, sometimes 2-seriate, inserted on sub- 

 basilar or oblique eccentric placenta, ascending, anatropous ; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit crowned with persistent calyx, dry, 

 indehiscent ; seeds ascending 1,2; embryo . . . ?— Ericoid pellucid- 

 punctate odorous shrubs ; leaves opposite or rarely alternate, linear 

 entire ; flowers axillary to leaves or to bracts inserted at top of twigs, 

 sessile or shortly stipitate, solitary or few cymose ; inflorescence ter- 

 minal sometimes capituliform ; bracts widely scarious enclosing the 

 bud and falling before or at anthesis. {South-west. Australia).— See 



321. 



39. Darwinia Rtjdgb.^— Flowers nearly of Ghamcelaudum, 5- 



1 Except flowers. ' '> Trms.Zinn. Soc.^M 22 ("o* DmKS^)- 



' Ne4 of Z«mmt.erc.. -Don. mm. m^W. J'.«r«. (^P- l^' 



3 aen. lectin, the Myrtace. witK the 84.--^ch... MyrUXero. t. 2«- J^; 



^,,.,W«.^^^^^^^^ iSxi. 3 (inel. : ....W^ BC. ...«—« 



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