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•CALLISTEMON rigidum 

 Stifle leaved Caltistemon. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat, ardi Mynti. Jutsieu gen. 322. Div. I. 



Mvrtacbm. Brown in app. to Flind. voy. % 5i6* 



CALLISTEMON* Stamina (numerosa): fihmenth distinctie, elon- 

 gatis ; ant her is incumbentibus. Capstda triloculare, polyspermy, coan&ta et 

 inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown MSS. 



Div, Fitamentts puniceis. 

 Cam,! stem ON rigidum, foliis linearibus (lanceolato-linearibusve) plan 13 

 aeutissimis mucronatis lEevibus, orariis pubescent ibus, capsulis distinctis. 



Brorvn MSS. 



Metrosideros linearis. Willd.- enum.6\$; (non verb Metrosiperos linearis 

 ejusd. sp. pL 2. 955) . 



A genus first proposed by Mr. Brown to be detached 

 from METitosroERos, in his general remarks on the Botany 

 of New Holland, and now defined from his manuscripts, 

 which were communicated with the same liberality we have 

 ever experienced from that gentleman. 



Callistemon is at present constituted by about 10 o* 

 11 australasian species; and consists of 2 sections; one 

 distinguished by crimson filaments, the other by yellow. 



Our shrub is native of New Holland. 



We cannot do better, for our readers, than extract the 

 remarks of Mr. Brown on the natural order to which the 



plant belongs. 



" MYRTACEjE. This is one of the most extensive 

 " tribes in Terra Australis, in which above 200 species have 

 been already observed, and where the order is also more 

 strikingly modified than in any other part of the world. 

 It is very generally spread over the whole of Australia, but 

 its maximum appears to be in the principal parallel. 

 " Of Eucalyptus alone nearly 100 species have been al- 

 " ready observed, most of these of trees, many of them of 

 " great and some of enormous dimensions. Eucalyptus 

 " globulus of Labillardiere and another species peculiar to 

 " the south end of Van Diemen's Island, not unfrequently 

 " attain the height of 150 feet, with a girth near the base of 

 " from 25 to 40 feet. In the colony of Port Jackson there 

 " are also several species of great size, but none equal to 



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