Tas. 8419. 
LEPTOSPERMUM scoparium, var. NicHOLLII. 
— 
New Zealand. 
Myrraceak, Tribe LEPTOSPERMEAE. 
Lerrospermum, Forst.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 703. 
Leptospermum scoparium, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 48, var. Nichollii; a forma 
typica floribus carmineis solum differt. 
Fruter ad 3-5 m. altus, ramosissimus, ramis divaricatis primum sericeis cito 
glabrescentibus. Folia alterna, lanceolata, 8 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, 
mucronata, breviter petiolata, rigida, obscure trinervia, punctata, viridia 
vel cuprea, juniores sparse pubescentia. Flores ad apices ramorum 
_ breviorum lateralinm solitarii, circiter 1°5 cm. diametro. Rereptaculum 
cimpanulatum, glabrum, minute punctatum. Sepala 5, ovata, obtusa, 
glabra, colorata. Petala 5, patentia, carminea. Stamina circiter 80, 
uniseriata, filamentis 2 mm. longis subulatis carmineis, antheris 0°5 mm. 
longis versatilibus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarivm inferum, 
superne convexum, 5-lobatum, 5-loculare; stylus 2 mm. longus stigmate 
terminali capitato. Ovula in quoque loculo numerosa, linearia, horizon- 
talia.—L. Nichollii, Dorrien-Smith in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. xliii. p. 898.— 
W. B. Turrtn.. 
For the introduction of the interesting Leptospermum 
now figured Huropean gardens are indebted to Captain 
A. A. Dorrien-Smith, by whom it was brought to England 
from New Zealand in 1908. In the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
for that year Captain Dorrien-Smith informs us that in 
New Zealand this plant is termed L, Nichollii, a name 
previously unknown in this country. It is stated that the 
plant was first found growing on sandhills to the north 
of Christchurch, and is believed in New Zealand to have 
originated as a seedling from a white-flowered plant 
discovered some years earlier in South Island, known there 
as L. Chapmanii, another name previously unknown 1n 
English collections. It is further said that the flowers 
of plants raised from seeds of this L. Chapmanu vary 
from bright rose to white, while their foliage varies from 
green to the colour of the Jeaves of the Copper Beech, 
L. Nichollii being one of the forms in which the leaves are 
of this latter colour. So far as this character is concerned 
it is found at Kew that the foliage is copper-coloured only in 
plants grown in the open; those grown under glass.have the 
Fesruary, 1912. 
