MYRTACEJE. 371 



42. Verticordia DO.' — Flowers nearly of Ghamcelaucium, recep- 

 tacle externally 5-10-costate. Sepals^ 5, patent, deeply divided into 

 bristly plumose or pectinate-ciliate lobes (sometimes in addition 6 

 exterior alternate, herbaceous or deeply ciliate scarious and reflexed). 

 Petals 6, entire, or fimbriate. Stamens 10, alternating with as many 

 glandules ; anthers short, poricid or shortly rimose. Germen 1- 

 locular ; ovules 1, 2 or more rarely 3-10, inserted on basilar or eccen- 

 tric placenta, erect or ascending, anatropous or peritropous ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit crowned with calyx, indehisoent (?). Seed 

 1; embryo fleshy (undivided ?^).— Shrubs; leaves opposite or very 

 rarely alternate, often cricoid, etc., of Ghamcelaucium ; flowers in 

 upper axils solitary or in spikes, racemes or terminal corymbs ; brac- 

 teoles 2, subscarious, imbricate and enclosing the bud, falling long 

 before an thesis. Other characters of Ghamcelaucium.^ (Australia J) 



43. Pileanthus Labill.' — Flowers nearly of Ghamcelaucium, 

 sepals 10, petaloid, subequal, entire, patent. Stamens 20 and upwards, 

 one interior to each sepal ; the rest 4-oo interior to each petal ; fila- 

 ments dilated or 2-fQrcate at apex ; anther-cells longitudiaally rimose, 

 contiguous or very remote in furcate filaments. Germen, etc., of 

 Ghamcelaucium; ovules 6-10, inserted on eccentric basilar placenta, 

 2-seriate. — Ericoid shrubs ; leaves oftener opposite linear, 8-quetrous 

 or terete ; flowers terminal corymbose ; upper leaves 1-florous ; brao- 

 teoles broad scarious enclosing bud, falling early ciroumscissus above 

 the base. (South-west. Australia.^) 



44? Lhotzkya ScHAU.' — Flowers 5-merous; receptacle lageniforra 



> Diet. Class, xi. 400; xvi. 565; jProdr. iii. Sot. ii. t. 13 {Chrysorrhoe) , 14. — Tdbcz, Bull. 



209. — Spach, Suit, a Bvffon, iv. 110.— Endi. jjfosc. (1849) ii. 19.— P.Muell. 7Va«s. FW./rtSi!. 



Gen.ii.621Q.— 'H.-'Bth. Payer Fam. Nat. 368.— B. 122; Fragm.i. 164,226; iv. 58; v. 14; viii. 182. 



H. Gen. t97, u. 4. — Chrysorrhoe Lindl. Camp, to — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 16. — Bot.Mag. t. 6286. 



Bot. Mag. ii. 357; Sw. Biv. App. t. 1; Eook. — Walp. Rep.u.loi; v. 730 ; Ann.xi. 616. 



Journ. Bot. ii. t. 13. — Diplaohne E. Be. mss. ex ? PI. N.-Holl. ii. 11, t. 149. — DO. Prodr. iii. 



SoHAU. 209. — Spach, Suit, a Bufon, iv. 111. — Endl. 



2 Generally coloured. Ann. Wien. Mm. ii. 196 ;, Gm. n. 6278. — Sohau. 



3 Radicle very macropod ; gemmule (?) very Mijrt. Xeroe. 77, t. 6, fig. A, B. — B. H, Gen. 

 small incumbent (?), undivided or 2-lo'bed. 698, n. 5. 



•' Petals wMte pink or sometimes yellow. « Spec. 3. J. Ami. Mus. xix. 432. — Desp. Me'm. 



5 Sect, (ex ScHAu. Myrt. Xeroe. t. 4 B) in 2 Mus. v. t. 3.— F. Muell. Fragm. i. 225.— 



geD..:'\.0a1ymmatanthus; appendages of calyx 'Htsisss. Journ. Linn. Soe.i.i6. — By^ht's.FI.Aus- 



comose ; 2. Euvertieordia ; appendages 0. tral. iii. 34. — Walp. Bep. ii. 157 ; v. 731. 



« Spec, about 39. Desp. Mim. Mus. v. t. 4, 19 « Limaa, x. 309 ; Lindl. Introd. ed. 2, 493 ; 



. — LiNDi. loc. eit. t. 2 A.— Myrt. Xeroe. t. l.—EsBi.. Gen. n. dl'l&.—R.'B. 



ScHAu. Lehm. PL Preiss. i. 99. — Hook. Journ. Gen. 609, n. 



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