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LI. MYRTACEiE. 
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spherical or nearly globular, smooth. Stamens very numerous, the longest 
attaining 5 or 6 lines, not distinctly arranged in clusters, indexed in the bud ; 
anthers oblong, with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary flat-topped. 
Fruit oblong-cylindrical, i to fin. long, 4 to 6 lines diameter, not contracted at 
the orifice, the rim narrow but forming an acutely prominent ring, the capsule 
sunk, usually 8-celled. Seeds obliquely oval. 
Hab.: Batavik River, Dr. IF. E. Roth. 
The leaves of the young trees are bruised and rubbed in water in a “ kooliman” with the hands 
till the water is green and thick, when it is drunk for fevers and headache. — E. Palmer. 
16. TRISTANIA, R. Br. 
(Said to be after Jules M. C. Tristan, a French botanist.) 
(Lophostemon, Schott.: Tristaniopsis, Brongn. and Gris.) 
Calyx-tube turbinate-campanulate or open, adnate to the ovary at the base, the 
free part broad ; lobes 5, short. Petals 5, broad, much imbricate. Stamens 
indefinite, more or less united in bundles opposite the petals, the filaments or free 
parts filiform, inflectel or rarely erect; anthers versatile, the cells parallel, 
opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, half superior, or free, except the broad 
base, but included in the calyx-tube, flat or convex on the top and very rarely 
depressed in the centre round the style, 3-celled, with several horizontal or 
recurved ovules in each cell ; style filiform, with a more or less capitate stigma. 
Capsule adnate or almost free, enclosed in or protruding from the persistent 
calyx, opening loculicidally in 3 valves. Perfect seeds where known few in each 
cell, linear-cuneate or expanded at the end into a flat wing ; testa thin ; embryo 
straight ; coteyledons broad and folded over each other, as long as or longer than 
the radicle. — Tall shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or irregularly verticillate at 
the ends of the branches, or in one species opposite, penniveined. Flowers small, 
yellow or white, in pedunculate axillary cymes. Bracts very deciduous or 
entirely wanting. 
Besides the Australian species, the genus comprises at least two from New Caledonia and 
about four from the Indian Archipelago.— Benth. 
Section I. Lophostemon, — Leaves alternate. Stamens indexed, o-adelphous, with lonO 
claws. Ovary inferior, flat-topped, with very numerous horizontal or recurved ovules in each cell- 
Seeds linear -enneate. 
Staminal claws half as long as the petals. Flowers usualy small (yellow ?). 
Calyx-lobes short and very obtuse 1. T. suaveolens. 
Staminal claws as long as the petals. Flowers few in the cyme, rather large. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute 2. T. conferta. 
Section II. Eutristania.— Leaves alternate. Stamens inflexed, 5-adelphous, with very 
short claws. Ovary adnate or half superior, ovules all reflexed. Seeds very flat or expanded at 
the end into a flat winy, the embryo in the thickened base. 
Ovary adnate. Flowers small, white, and numerous 3.2’. lactiflua. 
Ovary half superior. Stamens scarcely exceeding the petals. Seeds winged. 
Flowers yellow. 
Flowers small and numerous. Calyx not 1 line diameter .4. 7’. exiliflora. 
Flowers few. Calyx 14 to 2 lines diameter ij. T. lamina. 
Cymes axillary or lateral. Flowers yellow, numerous. Petals orbicular, about 
4 lines diameter, fugacious. Fruit near ^in. long, 3-valved. Seeds winged, 
3 lines long 0. T. lonyivalvis. 
1. T. suaveolens (flowers fragrant), Sin. in Rees Cycl. xxxvi.; lienth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 262. Swamp Mahogany. “ Boolarchoo,” Stradbroke Island, Watkins; 
“ Urona,” Bundaberg, A>//.s' ; “ Bujir,” Cooktown, Roth. A shrub or tree, more 
or less glaucous or hoary, or the young shoots hirsute, rarely quite glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-elliptical, ovate-lanceolate or elliptical-oblong, 
obtuse or acuminate, more or loss distinctly penniveined and reticulate, in some 
