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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
Professor AV. H. Harvey, M.D., E.R.S., read a paper (vide p. 264)— 
ON A NEW MYRTLE. (PLATE XXII.) 
Hypocalymna ( Cardiomyrtus) Phillipsii: ramis junioribus ferrugineo- 
tomentosis teretibus; foliis oppositis oblongo-ovatis basi subcordatis 
sessilibus semi-amplexicaulibus obtusis margine piano cartilagineo- 
denticulatis uninerviis viridibus pellucide pnnctatis; floribus axillaribus 
solitaries (v. geminatis ?) pedunculatis, pedunculo pubescenti brevi. 
The seeds came from Mr. Phillips, of King George’s Sound. 
A shrub 3-4 feet high or more, densely leafy. Branches frequently 
forking from the abortion of the terminal bud and the development of 
the lateral buds, terete, the younger ones clothed with a short, ferru¬ 
ginous pubescence or tomentum. Leaves in pairs, about an inch apart, 
deussating, 1 or l\ inch long, f inch wide, oblong-ovate, subcordate 
at base and partly amplexicaul, sessile, horizontally patent, some¬ 
what wavy, glabrous, pellucid-dotted with a cartilagineo-membranous 
serrulate margin, one ribbed, with immersed pinnating and intra¬ 
marginal veins. Peduncles axillary, geminate (?), (in our specimen 
only one is developed), 2-4 lines long, terete, pubescent. Bractece 
subtending the base of each peduncle, and two at the base of the calyx, 
where that is articulated to the peduncle. Calyx tube turbinate, rather 
shorter than-the limb. Sepals 5, oblong-ovate, very obtuse, with scarious 
entire margins. Petals 2-3 times as long as the sepals, ovate, tapering 
at base into a short claw, concave, very obtuse, pellucid-dotted, mar- 
cescent. Stamens inserted with the petals in a single series, confluent 
at base into a broad perigynous ring, very numerous for the genus, 50 
or more; filaments filiform, of unequal length, incurved, anthers short, 
erect, 2-celled; cells parallel, opening longitudinally, with a gland-like, 
swollen connective, dorsally inserted. 
Ovary nearly superior, its base only confluent with the tube of the 
calyx, but the whole of the ovule-producing portion is free, rising above 
a broad perigynous fleshy rim, which separates it from the staminal 
circle, trilocular, and distinctly three-lobed; ovules numerous, about 
twelve in each cell, fixed to a fungous axile placenta, sessile; style 
subulate, curved, stigma simple. 
This plant seems to agree in all essential respects with Hypocalymna, 
except that the ovules are more numerous, in which respect it coincides 
with Astartea; but it differs from that genus in having the stamens 
monadelphous. In habit it most resembles Hyp. cordifolium, but is much 
larger and more robust, with broad leaves and tomentose terete branches. 
The mere circumstance of a greater number of ovules in each cell, 
where they vary from one to three in other species, seems hardly sufficient 
to establish a separate genus for the present species. 
Dec. 
I*. 188 ? 
