The filaments are collected into five bundles, connected at 
the base only, and so slightly, that Smiru has observed that 
it is not very easy to decide whether it belongs to Melaleuca, 
or to the very nearly-related genus, Metrosideros ; between 
which genera, the distinction, he remarks, is more artificial 
than natural. 
Our drawing was taken from a specimen communicated by 
Joun Waxker, Esq. in May 1815, from a plant that had stood 
_ two winters against a south wall, with no other protection 
than a mat during frost. A very fine spreading shrub, nearly 
three feet high, was sent us last summer, by Messrs. Barr 
and Brooxezs, of the Northampton Nursery, Newington- 
Green. 
Native of New South-Wales and of Van Diemen’s-Island, 
and is generally treated as a hardy greenhouse shrub. Flowers 
most part of the summer. Introduced about the year 1794. 
Propagated by cuttings. iene 
The whole plant is aromatic and pungent, and the dried 
flowers, when rubbed, have a particularly grateful aromatic 
scent. . = : 
