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Tas. 8435. 
HYPOCALYMMA Rogustum. 
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West Australia. 
MyrtackEak. Tribe LerrosPpERMEAE. 
HypocaLymma, Schauer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 702 
(Hypocalymna). 
Hypocalymma robustum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. xxix. t. 8; Schauer in 
Linnaea, vol. xvii. p. 241, et in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. vol. i. p. 110; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. vol. ili. p. 92; De Wild. Ic. Hort. Then. vol. vi. t. 235; ab H. stricto, 
Schauer, cui affinis, floribus minoribus distinguendum. 
Suffrutex circiter unimetralis, glaber; ramuli stricti, virgati, cortice rubro- 
brunneo obtecti. Folia patentia, sessilia, crassa, linearia vel lineari- 
lanceolata, apice acuta, 1-2 em. longa, sectione transversa ambitu plus 
minusve triangularia, ut in receptaculo sepalis petalisque pauci-glandulosa. 
Flores axillares, plerumque gemini, sessiles, sed nonnunquam 3-4-nati et 
pedunculo communi perbrevi validiusculo suffulti; bracteae bracteolaeque 
scariosae, circiter 2°5 mm. longae, 1-1:75 mm. latae, concavae. ecepta- 
culum obconico-patelliforme, circiter 3-5 mm. diametro, Sepala oblongo- 
rotundata, ad 2°5 mm. longa et 2°25 mm. lata, scariosa. Petala punicea, 
obovato-elliptica, 3°5 mm. longa, 8 mm. lata. Stamina 30-40, petala 
subaequantia, filamentis basi breviter connatis. Stylus 4 mm. longus; 
ovarium apice planum, 2-loculatum, 6-ovulatum.—Leptospermum robustum, 
Endl. Hueg. Enum. p. 50.—W. G. Crar. 
The Swan River Peach Myrtle, which we here figure, 1s 
a West Australian plant that half a century ago was a 
favourite decorative pot-shrub in English conservatories, 
where it was grown along with species of Boronia, Chori- 
zema, Epacris, and Erica. Now that the cultivation of 
hard-wooded greenhouse plants has fallen out of favour it 
is rarely seen in private collections. Out of doors it has 
always been somewhat difficult to grow, even in the most 
favoured parts of the United Kingdom, and the plant from 
which the material on which our plate is based was derived 
has the two-fold interest of being one which was grown in 
the open, though in a very sheltered position under a wall, 
in the garden of the late Mr, Gumbleton at Belgrove, 
Queenstown, and of being the last of the many contribu- 
tions sent by that distinguished and successful gardener to 
May, 1912. 
