Li. myrtacetE. 
587 
Ar/onis . ] 
heads pubescent, oval or globular, from very small to 6 lines long by 4 lines 
diameter, usually terminal on the lower slender branchlets, with a pair of opposite 
leaves close under each head. Fruiting-calyxes pubescent, easily separated from 
each other, being nearly encircled by subtending scarious bracts. 
Hab.: Lloyd’s Bay, Thos. A. Gulliver. 
2. A. Scortechiniana (after Rev. B. Scortechini), F. v. M. Fraym. xi. 
118. A shrub 8 to 5ft. high, much branched ; branches silky-pubescent. 
Leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, base very obtuse, sessile, faintly 5 to 7-nerved, 
about lin. long, 8 to 5 lines broad, concave, copiously dotted. Flower heads at 
first terminal, then axillary. Outer bracts orbicular, numerous, imbricate, silky, 
inner ones almost ovate. Calyx silky-pubescent outside, lobes about 1 line long, 
membranous, almost semiovate. Petals white, almost 2 lines long, round- 
obovate. Stamens 20 to 30, scarcely 1 line long. Anther cells opening longitu- 
dinally, connective gland somewhat large. Style very short. Stigma peltate, 
slightly 3-sulcate. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit campanulate-ovate, scarcely 3 lines, in 
heads 6 to 12 lines but not connate. Seeds light brown, clavate or ellipsoid- 
linear, about § line long. 
Hab.: Around the swamps on Stvadbroke Island. 
10. LEPTOSPERMUM, Forst. 
(Seeds slender.) 
(Fabricia, Gcertn.; Macklottia, Kortli.; Homalospermum, Schau.; Periealymma, Endl.) 
Calyx-tube broadly campanulate or rarely turbinate, adnate to the ovary at 
the base, free part broad ; lobes 5, ovate, herbaceous or membranous, imbricate 
or open. Petals 5, orbicular, spreading, exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens 
numerous, free, not exceeding the petals, inserted on the margin of the disk in a 
single row; filaments filiform; anthers versatile, the cells parallel, opening 
longitudinally ; connective with a small globular gland. Ovary inferior or half- 
superior, enclosed in the calyx-tube, usually 5 or more celled, rarely 3 or 4-celled, 
with either numerous ovules in each cell densely covering a peltate placenta and 
horizontal or recurved, or few and recurved in two rows ; style filiform, inserted 
in a slight or deep depression in the centre of the ovary, often short, with a 
capitate or peltate stigma. Capsule opening at the top loculicidally, either 
protruding from the calyx-tube or rarely shorter. Seeds either linear-cuneate 
and wingless or more or less angular with transparent wings or cilia along the 
angles, but usually only few in each cell or a single one perfect, the others sterile 
often hard and always wingless. — Shrubs or rarely small trees, glabrous silky- 
pubescent or hoary. Leaves alternate, small, rigid, entire, nerveless or 1 or 
3-nerved. Flowers usually white, sessile or rarely shortly pedicellate, solitary or 
2 or 3 together at the ends of short branchlets or in the axils of the leaves. 
Bracts broad, scarious, 2 or 3 outer ones usually imbricate, but falling off from 
the very young bud, 2 inner ones or bracteoles opposite and close under the calyx 
often more persistent. 
The genus is common to Australia ' and New Zealand and the Indian Archipelago. Of the 
Australian species one is found in New Zealand also, and another in the Indian Archipelago, the 
remainder are endemic. The species are very difficult to distinguish. The whole of those with 
5-celled ovaries, from L. lanigerum to L. attenuation, different, as some of them appear at first 
sight, pass so gradually one into the other that they might be readily admitted as varieties of 
one species, whilst on the other hand many of the varieties here enumerated have been distin- 
guished as species by R. Brown, whose herbarium contains a beautiful series of well-selected 
specimens, as well as by other eminent botanists whose opinions are entitled to great weight. 
The genus requires, therefore, much further study on the part of those who have the opportunity 
of observing it in its native stations. From the dried specimens, whether of the species here 
admitted or of the varieties or races, I have been unable to discover any positive discriminating 
characters. —Uenth. 
