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MELALEUCA SQUARROSA. MyRTLE-LEAVED 
MELALEUCA. 
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Class and Order. ~ 
Potyapetpnia Icosanpria. 
Generic Character. 
Staminum phalanges 5, petalis opposite elongate. Anthere 
incumbentes. Caps. 3-locularis polysperma, connata et inclusa 
calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
MELALEvcA squarrosa ; foliis oppositis ovatis acutis 5—7- _ 
nerviis petiolatis, spicis oblongis ovalibusque, bracteis 
foliaceis, calycis laciniis enervibus obtusis, phalangium 
—— brevissimis. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. 
p. 416. 
‘MeLaevca squarrosa ; foliis sparsis oppositisve ovatis mu- 
ticis quinquenervibus, floribus lateralibus dentibus caly- 
cinis levibus. Srmith in Linn. Soc. Trans. 6. p. 300. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1430. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 26. 8. 
Labill. Nov. Holl. 2. p. 28. t. 169. | 
Menatevuca myrtifolia. Venten. Malmais. 47. 
The leaves of this plant are described by Mr. Brown, as 
opposite ; by Sir James Smiru, as both opposite and scattered, 
as they were in the one from which our drawing was made. 
Tn most specimens, however, that we have seen, they were 
entirely opposite and decussate ; they are usually obscurely 
five-nerved, and the broader ones seven-nerved. Some leaves, 
or bractes like leaves, grow among the flowers, which gene- 
rally shew more or less a disposition to become verticillate ; 
but the whorls are seldom so distinct as they were inthe plant 
from which our drawing was taken. . a 
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