. The natural history of plants. Botany. MYRTACE^. 309 calyx is formed of five imbricate sepals, margins of which are contiguous for only a short distance. Five sessile petals alternate Vi^ith the sepals and are imbricate in prefloration. The stamens .are very numerous, epigynous, and at adult age disposed without any apparent order.' Each is formed of a free filament, inflexed in Myrtm Fig. 282. Seed (i). Kg. 281. Fruit (?). Fig. 278. Flower. Fig. 283. Long, sect, of seed. the bud, and of a short bilocular introrse anther ^ dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.^ The inferior o
. The natural history of plants. Botany. MYRTACE^. 309 calyx is formed of five imbricate sepals, margins of which are contiguous for only a short distance. Five sessile petals alternate Vi^ith the sepals and are imbricate in prefloration. The stamens .are very numerous, epigynous, and at adult age disposed without any apparent order.' Each is formed of a free filament, inflexed in Myrtm Fig. 282. Seed (i). Kg. 281. Fruit (?). Fig. 278. Flower. Fig. 283. Long, sect, of seed. the bud, and of a short bilocular introrse anther ^ dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.^ The inferior ovary contains two or three cells in the internal angle of which is found a placenta bearing an indefi- nite number of small anatropous ovules. The fruit surmounted by the remains of the now fleshy calyx, is a berry enclosing one or several reniform seeds,* with a large fleshy hilum, hard coats, covering a curved fleshy embryo, destitute of albumen. The summit of the cotyledons and that of the radicle are turned towards the umbilicum. The common Myrtle is a shrub with simple opposite leaves, without stipules, permeated with reservoirs of an odorous essence. The flowers are ordinarily solitary, and the axillary peduncle bears two lateral bracteoles in the upper part. id.âJnamomiaGmaEB. Fl. Brit.] 240.â Skpharoeah/x Berg, Zinnaii, xxvii. 412 ; xxix. 256.âMaeropaidium Bt. Mus. i. 85. â? Temus MoL. Chil. 163.âDC. Frodr. i. 77.â C. Gat, Fl. Chil. i. 60.âPhil. Bot. Zeit. (1857), 392, 393.âTemu Bbbg, Linncea, xxx. 710.â Myrteola Bekg, ZinntBa, xxvii. 393 ; xxix. 252 ; XXX. 109.âVgni Turcz. Bull. Mosc. (1848), i. 679.â Myreianthes Bbeg, Linncea, xxvii. 315 (incl.: Calycolpus Berg, Luma A. Gray, Faeu- docaryophyllua Berg). 1 The stamens originate in Myrtua, as in CalUatemon, Eucalyptus, by groups superposed to the petals (Pateb, Organog. 461), but they re- main distinct to the end in Callistemon, whilst in the Myrtles " they are soon confused with each o
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