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§ 2. LEANTKIA. (Leantria, Soland. ex Forst.) — Filamenta subdefinita vel paucius- 

 cula : anihercB didymce basi vel medio affixm. Ovarium imperfecte bi—triloculare y 

 placentis inter se liberis. — Frutices vel suffrutices, foliis Vaccinii seu Oxyeocci. 



3. Myrtus pedunculata, Hooh.f. 



Myrtus pedunculata, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 629, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 71. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



There are in the collection some sterile leafy stems, perhaps be- 

 longing to a state of this species ; of which I possess no specimens. 



4. Myrtus Nummularia, Poir. 



Myrtus Nummularia, Poir. Diet. 4, p. 407; Gaud, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 5, p. 106, t. 2; 

 DC. Prodr. 3, p. 238 j Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 276. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. Very common ; creeping over the 

 ground like a Craneberry. 



The ovary I find to be incompletely three-celled, in the manner of 

 the Quitensian M. plujlicoides and M. oxycoccoides of Bentham (and 

 probably the other allied Andine species) : at least the dissepiments, 

 if they meet, do not cohere in the axis of the cell, except at the top 

 and bottom. The numerous seeds are less curved than in true 

 Myrtus; but the embryo is the same. 



To a third section of the genus* belongs Myrtus Ugni of Molina, 



* § 3. UGNI. {Ugni, Turcz. in Flora, 31, p. 711, excl. char, seminum I)— Filamenta 

 brevia, nunc complanata, indefinite exteriora majora : antherce oblongce, apiculatce, 

 introrsum adnata?. Ovarium perfecte bi-triloculare ; loculis septo spurio e dorso 

 carpellorum orto pi. m. bilocellatis. Embryo Myrti ! 



Myrtus Ugni, Molina, DC. etc. Eugeni Ugni, Hook. & Am. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 318, 

 where, through some mistake, the flowers are said to be quadrifid, and the peduncles 

 shorter than the leaf. To this clearly belongs the plate as well as the description of 





