MYRTACEiE. 



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with the lobes falling off ; capsule three-celled, one-seeded, joined 

 together at the base and included in the thickened tube of the 

 calyx, which grows by its base to the branch. 



Named after the Duchess of Beaufort. This is considered 

 a beautiful genus of greenhouse shrubs, natives of Australia, 

 and in this country growing freely and flowering well with 

 common treatment. JB. decussata, sparsa, and splendens 

 have scarlet flowers ; Dampen, pink ; purpurea and macro- 

 stemon, purple. Dampen, named after the celebrated navi- 

 gator, has numerous flowers in whorls at the extremity of 

 the branches, the petals are small and not bright in colour, 

 but the stamens and filaments are of a rosy hue and con- 

 spicuous ; it yields a fruit the size of a pepper-corn and of 

 a whitish hue ; this species is a very pretty dwarf shrub for 

 the greenhouse. These plants require a mixture of peat and 

 loam, and cuttings prosper if placed in sand and covered 

 with a glass : some of these plants are also known by the 

 generic name of Schizopleura. 



CALOTHAMNUS. 



Gen. Char. (Polyadelphia Icosandria.) Parcels of stamens four 

 or five, opposite the petals ; anthers inserted by the base and 



