262 Dr. SmithV Botanical Characters offome Plants 



cies in the gardens, which I have not yet feen in fufncient perfec- 

 tion to discriminate them. 



1. Leptospermum fcoparium, foliis ovatis mucronatis obfolete 

 trinerviis, calycibas glabris; dentibus membranaceis co- 

 loratis. 

 L. fcoparium. Forji. Gen. N. 6. 

 L. fquarrofum. Gar in. Sem. 174. t. 35. 

 Melaleuca fcoparia. Linn. Suppl. 343. G. Forjl. Prod. 37. 

 Philadelphia fcoparius. Aiu Hort. Kew. v. 2. 156. 



This is the moft commonly cultivated fpecies, and flowers conti- 

 nually. I have received it from the garden of Meflrs. Lee and 

 Kennedy, by the name of Philadelphus \flonbundus 9 along with three 

 other fpecimens, which I fufpect to be varieties of this. They were 

 called P. rubricaulisy P. rubriflorus, and the " original P. aromaticus" 



The variety g of Hort. Kew. is, according to Sir J. Banks's Herba- 

 rium, a very flight one, with fhorter and broader leaves. This is, 

 however, the identical Lept. fquarrofum of Gasrtner. 



What P. aromaticus of Hort. Kew. is I have not determined, and 

 mult therefore omit it for the prefent. 



a. L. Jlavefcensy foliis lineari-lanceolatis obtufis enerviis, caly- 

 cibus glabris : dentibus membranaceis coloratis nudis. 



The flowers appear to be of a fine yellow in the dried fpecimens. 

 I have not feen this fpecies living. 



3. L. attenuatum^ foliis lanceolato-linearibus acutis trinerviis, 

 calycibus fericeo-villofis : dentibus membranaceis coloratis 

 nudiufculis. 



Neither 



