of the Natural Order of My rtK a 7,1 



* • Foliis alterms. 



9. M. ciliata, foliis fparfis fub-oppofitis cllipticis obtufis coria- 



ceis bad fubciliatis,.corymbis terminalibus pilous. 

 Melaleuca ciliata. For/1. Prod. 38. 

 Leptofmermum ciliatum. Forjl* Gen. N. 3. 



Gathered by MefTrs. Forfter in New South Wales ? (Nova Cak- 

 doma). Not yet introduced into the Engliih gardens. 



The leaves are remarkably rigid, thick, and concave, their mar- 

 gin refiexed, like thole of Ceiafirus lucldus, but lefs mining ; whitilh, 

 and reticulated with tranfverfe veins beneath, and marked with a 

 ftraight central nerve. It is extraordinary that Dr. Forfter cha- 

 racterizes them as without nerve or veins. Thole parts may per- 

 haps be lefs vifible in recent fpecitnens. The bafe of mod of the 

 leaves is ciliated with long, fpreading hairs, like thofe on the young 

 branches, flower-ftalks, calyx, and even petals. The flowers are 

 large, handfome, deep-red, but few together, in a terminal corymbus 

 or umbel. Fruit large, deprelled, projecting in three lobes much 

 above the rim of the calyx. 



10. M. linearis^ foliis fparfis linearibus canaliculars acutis ri- 



gentibus, floribus lateralibus confertis ferTilibus. 

 Melaleuca linearis. Schrader Sert. Hannover an. 19. /. 11. 



This is not uncommon in the Englifh collections, but has not 

 yet flowered here, though it has at Hanover. The leaves are very 

 long, narrow, fomewhat pungent, rigid, and harm. There is a 

 variety with femicylindrical leaves, more rough on the back than 

 the more common kind. The flowers furround the branches in a 



long 



