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Backhousia (James Backhouse, botanical traveler). Myrtaceae. Evergreen greenhouse plants, blooming in spring.
Shrubs or trees, with opposite lvs. and blossoms in cymes or umbels: calyx-tube turbinate, or broadly campanulate, adhering to base of ovary, with 4 persistent segms.; petals 4, short; stamens many; ovary 2- celled, bearing a filiform style: fr. a caps., more or less inclosed in calyx, indehiscent or separating into 2 parts. —Five species in Austral. Requires the general treatment of myrtaceous coolhouse plants. Prop. by hardening cuttings under glass.
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