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XX, B'jtaJikal CbaraBers of four Ncw-HoUand Plants, of the Njtiirnl 



Order ofMyrt!. 



By James Edward Smith, M.D, KR.S. r.L.S, 



Read July y, i8or. 



oINCE the publication of a paper in the third volume of the I.in- 

 _nean Society's Tranra6tions, the aim of which was to fix the 

 botanical charad:ers of feveral genera and fpecies of the natural order 

 of Myrti, hitherto not well determined; I have become acquainted 

 with a few more of the fame tribe, four of which it is my dcfign to 

 defcribe at prefciit. The number might appear too inconfiderable 

 to be the fubjed: of a paper, nor ihould I, fcarccly, have offered 

 them in this form to the Society, were it not as a kind of necefTary 

 fupplement to the former treatife; and had I not a few particular 

 obfervations to propofe refpefling one of the plants. 



3. ••'■ Leptospermum grandfoUum^ foliis lanceolatis mucronatls 

 fubquinquenervibus fubtiis pubefcentibus, calycibus villofis: 

 dentibus membranaceis coloratis. 



A fingle fpecimen of this new fpecies of Let'tofpernmm, gathered 

 by Dr. White in New South Wales, has been communicated to me 

 by A. B. Lambert, Efq. It is much larger than any other I have 

 feenofthe genus, efpecially the leaves, which are above an inch 

 long, and near a quarter of an inch broad. Their form is lanceolate, 

 tapering more towards the bafe than towards the extremity, and they 

 are tipped with a fmall prominent, fliarp point ; their margin is en- 



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