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METROSIDEROS ROBUSTA. | — 967 
glabrate; lamina glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic - oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, 
entire, minutely reticulated. Flowers in terminal many-flowered short cymes ; 
branches and pedicels short and stout, pubescent; calyx pubescent, broad, 
shortly obconic, with five shortly - triangular lobes ; petals, five, orbicular. 
Stamens numerous, rather short. Ovary adnate with the lower part of the 
calyx-tube ; shorter than the tube until the flower has withered. Fruit, a three- 
celled capsule, twice as long as the calyx-tube, with which it is girt around the 
middle ; upper part free, obtuse, three-valved. 
EXPLANATION OF Pirate CXXVIII. 
Metrosideros robusta, A. Cunn. Flowering specimen, natural size. 1. Flower. 
2. Petal. 3. Longitudinal section of a flower with the petals and stamens 
removed. All magnified. 4. Fruit, natural size. 5. Fruit. 6. Longitudinal 
section of a fruit. 7. Seed. All magnified. 
