27 8 Dr. Smith' j- Botanical Characters offome Plana 



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Foliis oppojiiis. 



9. M. linari'ifoila, foliis oppofitis lineari-lanceolatis trinerviis 



fubtus multipunct-atis, ramulis floriferis terminalibus 

 laxis, filamentis pj tip at is. 



This, we are told by Mr. White, is a large tree, the bark of which 

 is very thick and fpongy, ferving the pnrpofe of tinder. The 

 branches are clothed with tapering glaucous leaves, thrice as long- 

 as in the laft fpecies, and from the fummits fpring feverai young 

 branches, let with a ieries of oppofite feflile folitaiy white flowers, 

 (not, as in that, in pairs ranged alternately), beyond which the 

 branch is foon protruded. The moft efTential character however 

 of this- fpecies confiits in the filaments, which are very long, being 

 pinnated, or ranged with ft am in a en each fide, more or lefs regu- 

 larly? from near the bale to the fummit. The leaves have a nut- 

 meg-like flavour. 



10. M. thjmifolia, foliis oppofitis elliptico-lanceolatis enerviis, 



ramulis floriferis lateralibus breviilimis paucifloris, fila- 

 mentis medium ufque ramofis. 



Mr. Fairbairn has prefented flowering fpecimens of this fpecies 

 to the Linnsean Society from Cheifea garden. The flowers are 

 purple, ranged along the branches of a year or two old, in little 

 ihort oppofite lpikes ; which however foon prove to be real 

 branches by the leaves ihooting out at their ends, this lateral mode 

 of inflorelcence being common to almoft the whole genus, M. Uui- 

 rlna arid fuavedletfs only having axillary branching flower-ftalks, nor 

 have 1 yet fcen a Melaleuca with terminal flowers. 



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