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each sepal. Filaments slightly flattened. In the dried 
specimens all bend towards the centre of the flower. 
Length of filaments about *5 mm., epipetalous; those which 
arise from the centre of the petals are surrounded at their 
bases by about four pointed hair-like appendages, which 
are not present at the insertion of those filaments which 
spring from the centre of the sepals. The connective gland 
is prominent. The anthers are large and four celled, ‘4 mm. 
inlength. Pollen grains triangular. The inferior ovary is 
‘prominently convex, andis very glandular. It is composed 
of three syncarpous carpels, in each of which are two 
collateral ovules with axile placentation. Style fairly 
long, and the lower end sunk in a depression in the ovary. 
Stigma capitate. 
The plant belongs to the section Huryomyrtus. The 
leaves and short pedicels distinguish it from B. diffusa, and 
the ovary from B. tetragona. Its nearest affinities are to 
B. crassifolia, but it differs in the pedicels, persistent 
bracts, stamens and convexity of ovary. [See Plate 30.| 
Bertya oleaefolia, Planch. (1845). Syn. B. Mitchelli, (1865). 
(Huphorbiacez). 
Both species are retained in the “‘Census’’ but in Mueller’s 
“Native Plants of Victoria,’ and “‘ Key,’’ B. oleaefolia is 
given as Victorian with the localities of B. Mitchelli. The 
two species do not appear to differ in any constant feature 
of specific rank and can hardly be recognized as varieties, 
the breadth of the leaves and the somewhat tapering or 
blunt topped ovary being variable characters. In the 
‘Plants Indigenous to Victoria,’’ and in the Fragm. iv, p. 
00, Mueller proposed to join together B. gummifera, B. 
rosmarinifolia, B. Mitchelli, and B. oleaefolia, under the 
first name, but such fusion does not at present appear 
justifiable. Victorian specimens have been variously 
labelled B. Mitchelli (Herb. F. Reader) and B. oleaefolia 
(Herb. C. Walter). 
