Eefugium Botanicum.] 
[SejUemher, 1870. 
TAB. 220. 
Natural Order Myrtace.^:. 
Tribe Chamelaucie.e. 
Genus Micromyrtus (Bentli. Gen. Plant, i. 700). Calycis tubus cyliii- 
dricus vel turbiiiatus, 5 — 10-costatus, ovario plus minus adnatus ; 
limbi lobi parvi, petaloidei vel scariosi, persistentes, nunc ad mar- 
ginem vix conspicuum reducti. Petala 5, patentia, ssepius decidua. 
Stamina 10, petalis sepalisque opposita, vel 5 petalis opposita, 
filamentis brevibus liberis ; antherarum loculi distincti subgiobosi, 
rimis parallelis vel divergentibus debiscentes. Ovarium inferum, 
1-loculare ; stylus filiformis, brevis, glaber, stigmate capitato ; 
ovula 2—4 ad apicem placentse filiformis a basi ad apicem loculi 
extensae collateraliter pendula. Fructus indebiscens, calycis tubo 
adnatus et limbo persistente coronatus. Frutices glabri ericoidei 
australienses. 
M. MicROPHYLLA [Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. p. 65). Foliis linearibus 
triquetris quadrifariis minute ciliatis plerisque dense imbricatis, 
floribus racemosis vel capitatis singulis in axillis foliorum sub- 
sessilibus, calycis tubo turbinate 5 costato, limbi segmentis rotun- 
datis scariosis, petalis spatbulatis calycis segmentis duplo longiori- 
bus, staminibus 5, antherarum loculis parallelis. — Imhricaria 
■ciliata, Smith, Linn. Trans, iii. 259. BcecJda microjyJiylla, Sieher, 
D. C. Prodr. iii. 230. B. pUcata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 30. 
A native of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 
A copiously-branched erect or diffuse shrub, with glabrous 
branches. Leaves usualty densely imbricated, coriaceous, linear, 
erecto -patent, one line to three lines long, four-ranked on the 
branches, triquetrous, flat on the face, conspicuously gland- 
dotted, the margins minutely ciliated. Flowers racemose or 
subcapitate, each singly subsessile in the axil of a leaf. Calyx- 
tube turbinate, about a line deep, prominentl}^ five-ribbed ; lobes 
round, scariose, persistent, minutely ciliated, one -fourth to one- 
third the length of the tube. Petals spathulate, white or tinged 
with red, a line long. Stamens five, opposite the petals, the 
filaments filiform, thoftanthers oblong with parallel cells. Ovules 
four. 
Tab. 220. — 1, leaf; 2.. entire flower; 3, the same, with some of 
the calyxdobes, petals and stamens stripped away ; 4, a single petal ; 
