Tas. 8866. 
MELALEUCA Rapv.ta. 
West Australia. 
Myrraceak. Tribe LEPTOSPERMEAE, | 
Metarevea, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 705. 
Melaleuca Radula, Lindl. Swan River App. p. 8 (1889); Schauer in Pl. 
Preiss. vol. i. p. 145; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 141; aff. M. lineari- 
. foliae, Smith, foliis involutis marginatis, floribus axillaribus duplo 
majoribus differt. 
Frutex alta, virgata, glabra. Folia opposita, linearia, acuta, canaliculata, 
scabridula, marginibus concavis vel involutis, 2-4-5 cm. longa, uninervia, 
pellucido-punctata. Flores axillares, sessiles, 2-2°5 cm. diametro, lilacino- 
purpurei. Calyz glaber, 0°5-0°7 cm. latus ; lobi latiores, saepe subobsoleti. 
Petala unguiculata, orbicularia, 4-5 mm. lata. Stamina numerosissima, 
circiter 1 cm. longa, basi in phalangas 5 latas connata; antherae globosae, 
luteae. Ovarium scabridulum; stylus latus'; stigma subcapitatum. Fructus 
subglobesus, 6-8 mm. diametro.—R. A. Rours. 
The Myrtaceous genus’ Melaleuca is a member of 
the tribe Leptospermeae, which includes many of the 
Australian plants that a century ago received much 
attention in English gardens and conservatories. _ The 
most familiar genera in the group are Lucalyptus, which 
includes the Australian Blue Gum, and whereof the 
species best known in our collections is the Tasmanian 
E. Gunnii, Hook. f., a mountain form of which is figured 
at t. 7808 of this work; Leptospermum itself, whereof 
L. scoparium, Forst., the Manukaof New Zealand, is most 
generally grown; and Callistemon, whereof the Australian 
species C. pinifolius, figured at t. 3989, is to be met with 
in English gardens. It is to the last named of these 
genera that Melaleuca, of which over a hundred species 
are known, is most nearly allied. Several of these have 
already been described in this Magazine, and will be 
found represented on tt. 1058, 1868, 1935, 2268, 3210, 
4471, 6131, 7529, 7941. The species now described, 
M. Radula, which has not been figured hitherto, 
OcToRER—DECEMBER, 1920, 
