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This is in the gardens, if I miftake not; but I have not ken the 

 flowers frein. Mr. Fairbairn gave it me by the name of Phil, diof- 

 mifolius. 



8. L. baccatum % foliis lineari-lanceolatis pungentibus, ramulis 



hirtis, calycibus glabris : dentibus membranaceis coloratis 

 pubefcentibus, capfula baccata. 



This is a low deprefled fhrub. The flowers feem to be yellow, 

 and, by the appearance of the dried fruit, it muft be very pulpy. I 

 have received from Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy a fpecimen which, 

 for want of the fructification, I fcarcely know whether to refer to 

 this or to L. arachnoideum, but it rather appears to be that fpecies. 



9. L. ambiguum, foliis linearibus apice recurvis, calycibus gla- 



briufculis : dentibus foliaceis lanceolatis nudis, ftaminibus 

 corolla longioribus. 



Of all the fpecies I have examined this is the only one that has 

 the ftamina longer than the corolla, which is a character of Metro- 

 fideros\ but as it differs from that genus, and agrees with Lepto- 

 fpermum, in the much more important character of the capitate 

 ftigma, as well as in habit, I do not hefitate to which to refer it. 

 This fpecies flowered magnificently in the garden of George Hib- 

 berr, Efq. F.L.S. this fummer. The flowers are white. 



AH thefe 9 fpecies I have received from New South Wales. 

 Perhaps L. virgatum of Forfter, (Melaleuca virgata of Linn, 

 Suppl) ought to be added to the lift of known fpecies ; but the two 

 fpecimens in the Linnsean Herbarium, which are all I have feen, 

 are fcarcely fufficient to fatisfy my doubts. The fr.amina, as far as 

 I can difcover, are regularly ten. If the fruit therefore be unilocular 

 or bilocular, it may be an Imbrkaria, with a double number of 



ftamina 



