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Callistemon pini folium. Pine-leaved 

 Callistemon. 



Class and Order. 



ICOSANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord.— Myrtace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calycis tubus seinisphaericus, limbus 5-partitus, Iobis ob- 

 tusis. Petala 5. Stamina numerosa, filamentis liberis elou- 

 gatis, antheris incumbentibus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 

 capitatum. Capsula 3-locularis polysperma connaja et in- 

 clusa calycis tubo incrassato et basi rarno adnato. — Frutices 

 Novce Hollandia?. Inflorescentia Melaleuca. Stamina libe- 

 ra Metrosideri. Folia elongata rigida alterna. D C. 



Specific Character and Sj/nonyms. 



Callistemon *pinifolium; foliis lineari-filiformibus acerosis 

 rigidis mucronatis canaliculars tuberculato-scabris, 

 calycibus glabris. 



Callistemon pinifolium. De Cand. Prod. v. 3. p. 223. 



Metrosideros pinifolia. Wendl." Coll. \.p.b3.t.26. Willd. 

 Enum. p. 513. 



Metrosideros viridiflora. Cels. (not Sims.) 



A tall-growing shrub, or small tree, native of New Hol- 

 land, and introduced to the Royal Gardens of Kew by the 

 late Mr. Cunningham, many years ago : — so that our finest 

 specimen has now attained a height of nine feet ; and pro- 

 ducing its pale yellow-green flowers, as it does, among the 

 dark foliage, at a season when the young tufts of leaves are 



of 



* From xxios, beautiful, and <tt>j/**», a stamen; from the length and beauty 

 of the copious stamens. 



