300 jDr. Smith s Botanical Characters 



tire, a little revolute; upper furface fmooth and fhining; lower paler, 

 .©pake, (jowny, pvin6late, marked with two obfolete longitudinal 

 ribs on each fide of the principal one. Flowers terminating the 

 lliort lateral branches, foiitary, feffile, furrounded with a few leaves; 

 white, large and handfome. Calyx clothed all over with white 

 filky down; its teeth membranous, whitilh, lefs filky on the infide, 

 moil fo externally about the tip. The germen is found to confifl of 

 only live cells; otherwife the appearance of the plant, and large fize 

 of all its parts, would have led me to fuppofe it a Fabrida^ nearly 

 ' allied to Gaertner's myrtifolia. As a Leptofpcrmum it fhould be in- 

 ferted between the third and fourth fpecies, being next akia to the 

 lanigerunu 



5. ^■'' L» imbricaium^ foliis obovatis imbricatis enervibus, ramulis 

 calycibufqae glabris; dentibus membranaceis coloratis 

 carinatis. 



Gathered near Port Jackfon, New South Wales, by the late Mr. 

 David Burton, and communicated to me by the Rt. Hon. Sir Jofeph 

 Banks. It is clofely allied to the fifth fpecies, L. parvifolium, but 

 differs at firfl: fight in the imbricated appearance of its numerous 

 leaves on the long lateral branches; and the flowers will be found on 

 examination totally diftindV, being not half the fize of thofe of 

 L. parvifiUum^ {landing two or three together about the extremity uf 

 each branch, not folitarily: their calyx moreover is in every part 

 perfectly fmooth, and its teeth (harply carinated, which in the 

 other are only a little convex, and entirely defhtute of any keel. 



4.* Melaleuca fjuarrofa, foliis fparfis oppofitisve ovatis muticis 



quinquenervibus, floribus lateralibus, dentibus calycinis 



laeyibus. 



M. fquarrofa. Bom. Hort, Cant, ^^. 2. loi. 



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