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Cymes dense, corymbose. Pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. 
Leaves ovate-acuminate. Calyx-lobes nearly equal 1. B. myrtifolia. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear. Inner calyx-lobes large and petal-like 2. B. angustifolia. 
Cymes umbel-like. Pedicels filiform, many times longer than the calyx- 
tube. 
Leaves ovate-obtuse. Placentas axile 3. B. sciadogdiora. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Placentas pendulous from the summit 
of the cell 4. B. citriodora. 
Leaves ovate-oblong near the inflorescence, 2 to 4in. long, to 2in. broad. 
Calyx broadly-turbinate, ribbed. Petals 5, slightly larger than the 
calyx-lobes 5. B. Bancroftii. 
1. B. myrtifolia (Myrtle-leaved), Hook, and Harr, in Bot. May. 
t. 4133 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 269. A slender tree or tall shrub, the young 
shoots and the under side of the leaves and the inflorescence more or less 
pubescent or softly hirsute, the older foliage glabrous. Leaves ovate, acutely 
acuminate, penniveined, 1 to 2in. long, narrowed into a petiole of 1 to 2 lines. 
Flowers white, in small cymes sometimes contracted into heads, on peduncles of 
f to lin. at the base of the new shoots, forming terminal leafy panicles. Bracts 
narrow, falling off long before flowering. Calyx-tube turbinate, softly pubescent 
or rarely glabrous, nearly li line long; lobes, usually 5, from ovate-oblong to 
lanceolate, petal-like but rigid, 2 lines or in large-flowered forms 3 lines long. 
Petals not half so long, often 5. Ovary inferior, slightly convex and villous on 
the top ; ovules 8 to 10 in each cell, campylotropous, attached in two rows to a 
somewhat thickened placenta adnate to the axis. Fruit enclosed in the calyx- 
tube, but not seen ripe. — F. v. M. Fragm. i. 78 ; B. riparia, Hook, in Bot. Mag. 
under n. 4133. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, W. Hill ; Pine River, Fitzalan 
Wood of a light-grey colour, darker in the centre; close-grained, very hard, and tough ; useful 
for tool-handles. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. JVnods No. 212. 
2. B. angustifolia (narrow-leaved), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 79; Benth. FI. Austr. 
iii. 270. A tall shrub or small tree, the young shoots and inflorescence minutely 
hoary-pubescent or tomentose, the adult foliage glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or 
narrow-oblong, obtuse or mucronate, very obliquely penniveined, 1 to lfin. long. 
Flowers rather small, in cymes or heads of 3 to 9 each, on peduncles of |in. or 
less in the upper axils, forming a divaricate leafy panicle. Calyx-tube turbinate, 
ribbed, pubescent, about 1 line long, outer lobes orbicular, as long as the tube, 
inner ones much larger and petal-like. Petals shorter than the inner calyx-lobes. 
Outer stamens above 2 lines long. Ovary inferior, convex and pubescent on the 
top ; ovules about six in each cell, campylotropous, and attached in two rows to 
an axile placenta as in R. myrtifolia. 
Hab.: Dawson River and Bunya Mountains. 
3. B. sciadophora (flowers in umbels), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 26, 171 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iii. 270. A tree, either glabrous or the young shoots minutely 
pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate, obtuse, 1 to 2|in. long, on short petioles. 
Flowers small, numerous, in umbel-like cymes or clusters on a common peduncle 
of k to fin. in the upper axils, the slender pedicels often Mn. long. Calyx-tube 
glabrous, broadly campanulate, about 1 line long ; outer lobes rounded and rather 
shorter, the inner ones rather longer than the tube. Petals broad, slightly 
exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens about 2 lines long. Ovary semiadnate to 
the bottom of the calyx, the convex top slightly pubescent ; ovules 4 to 6 in each 
cell, campylotropous, attached in two rows to an axile placenta. Capsule filling 
the calyx-tube, flat-topped, apparently indehiscent but readily separable into 
two cocci. 
Hab.; Rockhampton, Thazet , with small leaves. 
