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LI. MYRTACE^E. 
[Leptospennum. 
Most authors describe the calyx-lobes of Leptospennum as valvate ; I have always found them 
decidedly imbricate in the young bud, even in the Javanese specimens communicated by 
Blume. — Benth. 
Section I. Fabricia. — Ovary usually 0 to 10 or i-celled. Ovules numerous. Seeds when 
perfect rather broad, fringed or winged at the angles < as far as knoim). Flowers closely sessile. 
Ovary usually 6 to 10-celled. Calyx villous. Capsule half-exserted . . 1 . L. Fabricia. 
Section II. Euleptospermum. — Ovary usually 5-celled, or here and there 4- celled , or 
S-celled in the last two species. Ovules numerous. Seeds, both perfect and sterile, narrow -linear. 
Calyx-tube glabrous. Ovary 5 or rarely 4-celled. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 6 to 9 lines long, 2 to 2£ lines broad ; 
midrib and marginal nerves prominent, apex slightly recurved ; base 
decurrent, forming angles on the branchlets 2. L. wooroonooran. 
Leaves flat or with recurved margins, obtuse or scarcely pointed (except 
in the large variety) 3. L.jlavescens. 
Leaves flat or concave, pungent-pointed, narrow or small 4. L. scoparium. 
Calyx-tube pubescent or villous. Ovary 5 rarely 4-celled. 
Branches not spinescent. Flowers sessile or nearly so. 
Calyx broad and obtuse at the base, woolly, loosely villous, or closely 
tomentose. 
Leaves linear, concave, pungent-pointed 5. L. arachnoideum. 
Leaves obovate, oblong or elliptical, flat or with recurved margins, 
obtuse or shortly mucronate 6. L. lanigerum. 
Calyx usually attenuate at the base, at least when young, silky with 
appressed hairs. 
Calyx-lobes appressed-silky, usually persistent 7 . L. stellatum. 
Calyx-lobes membranous, deciduous. Erect or spreading shrubs . 9. L. myrtifolium. 
Branches not spinescent. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx silky, usually 
attenuate at the base. Capsule not prominent 8. L. attenuatum. 
Ovary 3-celled. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, minutely silky. Flowers small, glabrous. 
Capsule shorter than the calyx-tube 10. L. abnorme. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous. Fruit terminal, in clusters of 3 or 
4, or in very short racemes 11. L. Luehmanni. 
Dr. Lauterer considers that the young shoots and leaves of all the species of this genus are of 
the same service to the urinary organs, and against gravel, as those of the Uva ursi. 
1. I>. Fabricia (after Fabricius, a Swedish entomologist), Benth. FI. Austr. 
iii. 102. A shrub or tree, the branches often loosely hairy. Leaves from 
oblong-lanceolate to almost obovate, f to liin. long, obtuse or slightly mucro- 
nate, 3 or 5-nerved. Flowers mostly terminating short leafy branchlets, surrounded 
by orbicular imbricate deciduous bracts. Calyx more or less tomentose-villous, the 
tube hemispherical, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, orbicular, very obtuse, 
silky or villous outside. Stamens numerous. Ovary usually 10-celled. Capsule 
very prominent above the calyx-rim, the free part usually as long as the enclosed 
portion. Seeds not seen quite perfect, but in the apparently ripe capsules already 
burst open the enlarged ovules of each cell are readily detached in a mass with 
the placenta, the whole assuming the shape represented by Gsertner as that of the 
seed ; enlarged ovules or young seeds very flat, obliquely obovate-oblong, the 
upper ones falcate, not winged or very slightly so at the base . — Fabricia murtifolia, 
Gfertn. Fruct. i. 175 t. 85. 
Hab.: Endeavour Kiver, Banks and Solander ; Haggerstone and Lizard Islands, A. Cunning- 
ham ; Cape York, If'. Hill. 
The Banksian specimens described by Gartner are in the same state, with unripe seeds only, 
as A. Cunningham’s. — Benth. 
2. I., wooroonooran (aboriginal name for Bellenden Ker), Bail, ‘did Suppl. 
Syn. Ql. FI. 27, and Bot. Bull. v. Trunk often extending in an almost 
horizontal position for several yards at from 3 to 6ft. above the ground, 2 or 3ft. 
diameter, with a thick stringy bark, from which branches arise to 20 or 30ft., 
thus forming a large spreading-headed tree of dense foliage. This peculiar 
growth is due probably to the high winds which blow at certain seasons of the 
