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Myrtus.] LI. MYRTACE^E. 
roundish, 1 to 1^ line broad. Petals 2 to 3 lines long, almost round, glabrous 
outside. Stamens about as long as the corolla ; anthers renate-rotund. Style 
somewhat short, setaceous ; stigma very small ; ovary 2-celled.— F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) 
12. nitida (leaves shining), J. F. Gviel. Syst. 792; Britten in Jour n. of 
Bot. xxxvii. 278. A glabrous tree. Leaves attaining a length of 3in. and a 
breadth of lAin . ; petioles short, mostly ovate-lanceolate, bluntly protracted at the 
point, the base cuneate, margins somewhat undulate, upper surface dark-green 
and shining, less so on the under surface ; primary veins rather distant, 
moderately prominent, oil-dots copious. Pedicels attaining lin. in length, 
capillary, few or. several in the axils, some on compressed thin peduncles. 
Flowers hardly exceeding 2 lines long. Calyx-lobes 4, semiovate or semiorbicular, 
and conspicuously ciliolate. Petals almost glabrous, as long again as the calyx- 
lobes. Anthers orbicular or cordate- ovate, brownish. Disk glabrous. Ovary 
2-celled. Fruit nearly globular, about 4 lines diameter, usually 1 -seeded ; 
pericarp very thin, seed almost globular, nearly 3 lines diameter, testa smooth, 
shining, cartilaginous ; embryo forming only 1 coil, but at one end somewhat 
protruding beyond the curvature. — Myrtus wonosperma, Yict. Nat. May 1892 ; 
Syzgium tuciilens, Gsert. Fruct. i. 167, t. xxxiii.; Eugenia lucida, Banks (and Sol.) 
according to J. Britten l.c. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, IF. Persich. 
Sap said to be extremely acrid. — F. v. M. l.c 
13. M. exaltata (lofty growth), Bait. Bot. Bull. viii. A tree of from 80 
to 100ft. in height, furnishing a good timber. Bark on the branchlets loose, 
brownish. Leaves glossy, irregularly opposite or alternate, ovate with often long 
tail-like points, 2 to 3in. long, ljin. broad, on rather slender petioles of about 
3 lines, the primary veins very slender, numerous, parallel, oblique, joining in an 
intramarginal one more or less distant from the edge, the intermediate veinlets 
few and distant. Oil-dots minute. No flowers seen. Fruit in short, stout 
racemes in the upper axils, globular, about 5 lines diameter, of a pink colour and 
fleshy consistence, containing so far as could be observed (the fruit being in bad 
condition) but a solitary seed. 
Hab.: Scrubs about the Barron River. 
The fruit used for jam-making. — E. Cowley. 
14. metrosideros (Metrosideros-like), Bail. 3rd S-uppl. Syn. Ql. FI. 
27. Tree 30 or 40ft. high, trunk often crooked, 1 to 14ft. diameter, bark 
thick and loose on the outside ; head spreading and foliage very dense ; branchlets 
and leaf petioles silky-hairy. Leaves ovate, with long acuminate points, mostly 
under lin. long, glabrous except while very young, coriaceous, the midrib alone 
showing, glossy on the upper, pale and closely dotted with minute dots on the 
under side ; petioles 2 lines long. 
Hab.: This and the Leptospermum wooroonooran are the only two large trees on the south peak 
of Bellenden Ker. No flowers or fruit have been obtained. I have placed it under Myrtus, but 
it strongly reminds one of some of the New Zealand Metrosideros. 
26. RHODAMNIA, Jack. 
(Rose-like.) 
(Monoxora, Wight.) 
Calyx-tube ovoid or nearly globular, not produced above the ovary ; lobes 4, 
usually persistent. Petals 4, spreading. Stamens numerous, in several series, 
free ; filaments filiform ; anthers versatile, with parallel cells, opening longi- 
tudinally. Ovary 1 -colled, with 2 parietal placentas, each with several ovules ; 
