104 CALYCIFLORjfi. 



c. Dodecandrous . 



* TRIPLY-NERVED. 



74 Conostcgia alternifolia 71 



75 Blakea trinervia 95 



* * TRI-NERVED. 



76 Conostegia gloriosa G3 



77 Conostegia procera 69 



78 formosa 70 



79 montana 70 



80 glabra 71 



* * * FIVE-NERVED. 



_ 81 Conostegia subhirsuta 67 



82 Miconia bracteata 82 



83 Heterotrichum patens 64 

 84 viscosum 65 



ORDER LXXIX. MYRTACEiE — THE 

 MYRTLE FAMILY. 



Calyx 4-G, more frequently 5-eleft, the limb 

 semetimes cohering at the apex and falling off 

 like a lid $ sestivation valvate. Petals attached 

 to the calyx, equal in number to its segments, 

 with a quincuncial sestivation, rarely none. Sta- 

 mens inserted with the petals either twice as 

 many or 00 , rarely equal to them in number : 

 filaments distinct, or united in one or more par- 

 cels, curved inwards before flowering: anthers 

 ovate, 2-celled, bursting longitudinally. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-2-4-5-or 6-celled : style simple, derived 

 immediately from the placenta : ovules anatropal, 

 pendulous or erect. Fruit either dry or fleshy, 

 and amphitropal or indehiscent: seeds usually 

 indefinite: embryo exalbuminose. 



Trees or shrubs ; with opposite, rarely alternate, leaves, 

 usually entire and pellucido-punctulated. They are na- 



