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MELALEUCA fulgens. 
Scarlet Melaleuca. 
POLYADELPHIA JCOSANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Mywm (recentiìs Myrracer.) | Jussieu gen. 322. 
Div. I. Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris op- 
positi. Folia plerumque opposita et punctata. 
MELALEUCA. Cal. turbinatus, limbo 5-fido, deciduo. Pet. 5, 
parva, summo calyci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna. Fil. basi con- 
nata in fasciculos 5 (elongatos Brown.) sub petalis insertos: anth. ob- 
longe, incumbentes. Stylus 1. Jussieu l. c. 393. Caps. 3-loc., poly- 
sperma, connata et inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo.) 
Broin in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 410. 
Frutices rariìs arbores: flores sepiüs in spicam cylindricam sum- 
mis foliis infernatem dispositi. Folia alterna, opposita v. verticillata, 
simplicia, plerdmque punctata. 
_ Dix. folia opposita v. verticillata. = 
M. fulgens, foliis oppositis lanceolato-linearibus acutis unmervibus, 
spicis ovalibus glaberrimis, phalangibus (staminum) multifidis : ungui- 
bus (phalangium ) longitudine petalorum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 
9. 4. 415. 
Arbuscula rigida, erecta, ?amosa ; cortex cinnamtmeo-füscescens, exuens 
suticulam per philyras lineares : rami ascendentes, patentes. Folia distantiis 
decussata, ascendentia, rigida, sessilia, angusta, lanceolata, uncialia, subtüs 
convexa "viridia saturatiis at parc? punctata, suprà concava glauca sine 
punctis. Flores pro genere majusculi, ramulos aliquot novellos sparsos cum 
¿psis simul è veteriori et sep? defoliato ligno inferis in caule enatos in spicam 
nudam infra folia ambientes : filamenta coccinea, subsesguiuncialia. 
A species made known in the second edition of the 
Hortus Kewensis by Mr. Brown, who discovered it growing 
on the south coast of New Holland; and one which proves 
to be the most ornamental of any MELALEUCA we possess in 
our collections. 
The genus belongs to the Myrtle-tribe, and naturally 
joins to MernosinEnos; but having the filaments united in 
separate parcels, and not, as in that genus, wholly distinct 
írom each other, ranks in a different class of the artificial 
system of Linnzus. 
Fulgens is a slender hard-wooded branching tall shrub, 
with a palish smooth bark, inclining to red in the young 
wood; in the old brown, with a cuticle which peels off in 
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