South Wales (Tab. 1058 Melaleuca), which belongs to a 
different section of the genus, having opposite leaves. 
The specimen here figured of 7’, lawrina was communicated 
by Mr. Hanbury from the Mortola Gardens in July, 1896. 
A plant of it has been for many years in cultivation in the 
Royal Gardens of Kew, and is now in the Temperate 
House, where it flowers occasionally. 
Descr.—A shrub, or small or large tree, attaining seventy 
feet in height; branchlets and young leaves and old leaves 
beneath at first, clothed with silky appressed hairs ; branch- 
_lets and petioles stout, red-brown. Leaves very variable, 
three to four inches long, from lanceolate to oblong- 
lanceolate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, acute or acuminate, 
dark green above, very pale beneath; midrib stout ; nerves 
very numerous and slender; base narrowed into a short 
stout petiole. Flowers orange-yellow, in small, shortly 
stoutly petioled axillary cymes, about one-third of an inch in 
diameter ; pedicels short, stout ; bracts very small, brown, 
caducous. Calyx turbinately campanulate, semi-superior, 
pubescent; lobes 5, triangular. Petals one-eighth to one- 
sixth of an inch long, elliptic, very shortly clawed. 
Stamen in five short bundles of about twenty each. Ovary 
with ahemispheric hirsute crown. Capsule small, obtusely 
three-valved above the middle.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx lobes, bundle of stamens and petals; 3, anther; 
4, base of calyx and ovary ; 5, transverse section of ovary ; 7, immature seed: 
—all enlarged; 6, fruiting cymes of the natural size. 
