104 
CA LYCIFI.OR AB . 
c. Dodecandrous. 
* TRIPEY-N ER”ED. 
7 t 
Conostegia alteinifolia 
71 
75 
Liakea tiinervia 
95 
* * TRI-NERVKD. 
76 
Conos f eoia gloriosa 
GS 
77 
Conostegia procera 
G9 
78 
Ibrmosa 
70 
79 
montana 
70 
80 
glabra 
71 
* * * FIVE- NERVED. 
81 
Conostegia subhirsuta 
G7 
82 
Miconia bracteata 
82 
83 
Heterotriehum patens 
G4 
84 
viscosum 
G5 
ORDER LXXIX. MYRTACEiE — THE 
MYRTLE FAMILY. 
Calyx 4-6, more frequently 5-cleft, the limb 
semetimes cohering at the apex and falling off 
like a lid; aestivation valvate. Petals attached 
to the calyx, equal in number to its segments, 
with a quincuncial aestivation, rarely none. Sta- 
mens inserted with the peta s either twice as 
many or oc , rarely equal to them in number : 
filaments distinct, or united in one or more par- 
cels, curved inwards before flowering: anthers 
ovate, 2-celled, bursting longitudinally. Ovary 
inferior, 1-2-4-5-or 6-celled : style simple, derived 
immediately from the placenta : ovules anatropal, 
pendulous or erect. Eruit either dry or fleshy, 
and amphitropal or indehiscent: seeds usually 
indefinite : embryo exalbuminose. 
Trees or shrubs ; with opposite, rarely alternate, leaves, 
usually entire and pellucido-punctulatcd. They are na- 
