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LVIII. MYRTACE^E. 
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Order LVIII. MYRTACE JE. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate ( Tristania , 
Barringtonieo), simple, usually with an intramarginal nerve, cori¬ 
aceous. Flowers regular, bisexual, axillary solitary to corymbose, 
white or pink. Calyx superior; limb 4- to 5-lobed. Petals on 
the edge of the calyx-tube as many as sepals. Disc lining the tube. 
Stamens numerous, on edge of disc; filaments long. Ovary 
inferior, i-celled, ovules 1 or more, or 2-celled with many ovules. 
Fruit capsular or drupaceous. Species 2000, tropics and sub¬ 
tropics (King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxx. ii. 66). 
(a) Fruit capsular. 
Leaves narrow. 
Flowers few or solitary. 
Stamens 10 or less; leaves very narrow, 
opposite ...... 
Stamens many; leaves broader, alternate . 
Flowers in spikes or heads; stamens numerous 
Leaves broad, alternate; flowers cymose . 
{£>) Fruit a berry ; leaves opposite. 
Ovary 1-celled; flowers small; leaves 3-nerved . 
Ovary 1- to 3-celled; flowers large; leaves 3- to 
5-nerved ...... 
Ovary 5- (or 4-)celled; seeds few; flowers small; 
leaves not 3-nerved .... 
(c) Fruit a drupe ; leaves opposite ; seed x, rarely 2. 
Stamens numerous; flowers cymose usually 
many; fruit green, fleshy 
Stamens 8; flowers few, small axillary; drupe 
red pulpy . . v . 
(d) Fruit a drupe, fleshy ; leaves alternate. 
Flowers large; fruit oblong; seed 1 . 
(e) Fruit globose ; seeds several. 
Inner stamens without anthers 
Outer stamens without anthers 
1. B^ckea 
2. Leptospermum 
3. Melaleuca 
4. Tristania 
5. Rhodamnia 
6. Rhodomyrtus 
7. Decaspermum 
8. Eugenia 
9. PSEUDO-EUGENIA 
10. Barringtonia 
11. Planchonia 
12. Careya 
1 . BxECKEA, Linn. 
Aromatic glabrous shrubs with narrow linear, glandular leaves. 
Flowers 5-merous, axillary, small, white. Calyx-tube campanulate; 
lobes 5. Petals 5, sub-orbicular. Stamens 10, shorter. Ovary 
half inferior, 2- to 3-celled. Capsule bursting loculicidally. Species 
about 50, Australian and New Caledonian, 1 Malayan. 
(i) B. frutescens Linn. Sp. PI. 358; King, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. lxx. (2), 68 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2802. 
A heath-like shrub from a few inches high to 20 ft. tall, and 1 ft. 
through the stem. Branches wiry. Leaves -25 to '5 in. long, very 
narrow, terete acute. Flowers *08 in. wide, on short pedicels, white 
with a green ring in the centre, becoming red. Hob. On all moun¬ 
tains where dry enough above 3000 ft. altitude, common. Pahang, 
Gunong Tahan, to 7000 ft. altitude; Lambak Camp, Kwantan 
