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in the hurl, the external one sometimes larger than the others, hut 
usually all nearly equal when expanded, sometimes all concrete and 
falling oft in a single operculum, or rarely entirely wanting. Stamens 
indefinite, usually numerous, or rarely few and definite, inserted in 1 or 
several rows on a disk, either thin and lining the calyx-tuhe above the 
ovary and forming a thickened ring at its orifice, or thicker and forming 
a ring close round the sumniit of the ovary ; filaments free or rarely 
united into a ring or tube at the base, or into as many bundles as there 
are calyx-lobes ; anthers ^-celled, versatile or attached by the base, 
the cells opening in longitudinal slits, or rarely in terminal pores. 
Ovary inferior or rarely almost superior, but enclosed in the calyx- 
tube, sometimes 1-celled, with a placenta attached to the base or 
adnate to .one side, more frequently 2 or more celled, with the 
placentas in the inner angle of each cell, very rarely 1-celled, with 2 
parietal placentas. Style simple, with a small or a capitate or peltate, 
very rarely lohed, stigma. Ovules 2 or more to eacli placenta in 2 or 
more rows, or very rarely solitary, erect pendulous or laterally 
attached, anatropous or ampliitropous. Pruit inferior, adnate to the 
calyx-tube, and crowned by the persistent limb, or marked by its scar 
■\vhen deciduous, or very rarely half or almost wholly superior, and 
surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx-tube, either capsular 
and opening longitudinally at the sainmit in as many valves ns cells, or 
indehiscent, diy, and 1-seeacd, or succulent and indehiscent. Perfect 
seeds, usually very few or solitary in each cell, even when the ovules 
are numerous, or rarely numerous and perfect ; testa cither thin and 
membranous, or crust aceous, fleshy, or bony. Albumen none, or very 
scanty near the hllum. Embryo straight or variously curved, fleshy, 
wdth minute cotyledons at one end, or with large, flat, or variouslv 
folded cotyledons, or Muth thick, fleshy, distinct or consolidated cotyle- 
dons, and an exceedingly short radicle, or rarely apparently homo- 
geneous, the cotyledons inconspicuous before germination. Abortive 
ovules in many capsular genera, enlarged without ludug fertilised, and 
simulating the seeds, but of a hard, nearly Iiomogeueous, woody or 
granular consistence. Trees or shrubs, very rarely under shrubs. 
Leaves simple, entire, or rarely obscurely crenate-toolhed, opposite or 
less frequently alternate, more or less dotted in all but the LceythidesD, 
with smali resinous glands, either pellueid or black aTid superficial, 
often scarcely visible when the leaf is thick. Stipules none, or rarely 
very mintitc and fugacious. Flow'crs solitary or in racemes, panicles, 
or cymes, axillary or apparently terminal from the terminal bud, not 
growing out till after the flowering is over. Bracts solitary at the 
base of the peduncle, or forming an imbricate invo]u(^re from the 
abortion of tbc lower flowers. Bractooles 2 at the base of or on the 
X>edieel, sometimes very small or abortive, and often exceedingly 
deciduous. 
Tribe 1. Cham Ovary 1-celled; fruit 1 or rarely 2- 
seeded, indeliisceiit. Shrubs often heath-lik(^, with small leaves. 
Blowers usually small, solitary or very rarely 2 or 3 together in the 
axils of the leaves or bracts, either along the branches or m terminal 
heads, the lloxal leaves either like the stem-leaves or dilated and bract- 
like or forming an involucre. Examph s : iJanvinia, Cahjihrix. The 
species of this tribe for the greater part belong to Western Australia, 
and are noted more for beauty than utility. 
