Metrosideros. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 479 
lyx form a perfect imitation of a speaking trumpet. Calyx 
narrow-campanulate, obscurely four or five-toothed. Pe- 
tals four or five, round, small, sessile. Filaments numer- 
ous, much larger than the petals. Germ three-celled. I 
have not found the ripe nor even full grown seed vessel. 
Style rather shorter than the filaments, Stigma acute. 
| 4. M. linearis. Smith. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3. p. 271. 
Shrubby. Leaves scattered, linear, channelled, acute, 
rigid. Flowers crowded round the branchlets, a little be- 
low their trifid apices, some of them axillary. 
This beautiful plant was reared-in the Botanic garden 
at Calcutta, from seed sent by Colonel Patterson from 
New South Wales in 1800. In seven years the plants 
were six or eight feet high, stout and rigid.  Flower- 
ing time in Bengal, April and May; the seeds require 
above a year to ripen. 
Stem nearly erect, about as thick as a man’s wrist. 
Bark dark-coloured, and rather scabrous. Branches few, 
scattered, stiff and straight; the ligneous parts ash-co- 
loured, the tender ones downy. Leaves scattered, sessile, 
_linear, rigid, channelled, from two fo three inches long, 
and an eighth of an inch inbreadth. Flowers crowded 
round the branchlets below the leaves of thé same year, 
sessile, some of them are axillary, and in that case solitary. 
Calyx urceolate ; margin five-cleft ; segments reniform, 
deciduous. Petals five, greenish, nearly round, villous. 
Filaments inserted on a rim, (within the petals) round the 
mouth of the calyx, many times longer than the petals, of 
a bright crimson, and from their number, size, and length, 
giving that colour to the whole flower, though the petals 
and calyx aregreen. Germ more than semisupera, being 
attached to thebottom of the calyx only, round, hairy, ge« 
nerally three-celled, though I have found some with four, © 
each containing numerous, very minute seeds attached to 
Wiese ai receptacle in the inner angle of the cell, 
