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both in Australia itself and in the Archipelago, and several forms have been described as 

 species. It is one of the few essentially Australian types that extend beyond Australia 

 (New Caledonia being regarded as belonging to the same floral region). In Australia 

 proper there are between ninety and a hundred species of Melaleuca, presenting a great 

 diversity in foliage and inflorescence ; but Melaleuca leucadendron is the only one, we 

 believe, found north of Australia. As limited in the Flora of British India, it includes 

 Melaleuca minor, Smith, Melaleuca saligna, Blume, Melaleuca viridijlora, Ga:rt., 

 Melaleuca cumingiana and Melaleuca lanceolata, Turcz., and Melaleuca cajuputi, 

 Roxb. 



The other specially Australian myrtaceous types, extending into the Archipelago and 

 Continental Asia, are : — Bteclcea frutescens, Linn. — Malacca and South China, to Borneo 

 and Sumatra; Leptospermum amboinense, Blume — Malacca to Australia and Tasmania; 

 Leptospermum javanicum, Blume — Moulmein, Java, and Sumatra. Bceckea numbers about 

 fifty Australian species, and Leptospermum twenty -five, whereof two inhabit New Zealand, 

 and the rest Australia. 



Rhodomyrtus macrocarpa, Benth. var. 1 



Rhodomyrtus macrocarpa, Benth. var. ? Fl. Austr., iii. p. 273. 



Arrou. — Only recorded from Queensland. Rhodomyrtus is a genus of five species, four 

 of which are Australian, and one, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, DC, which is spread nearly all 

 over Tropical Asia. 



Nelitris paniculata, Lindl. 



Nelitris paniculata, Lindl. ; Benth., El. Austr., iii. p. 279. 

 Nelitris pallescens, Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl., i. p. 314. 



Decaspermum paniculatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., xlvi. (1877), 2, p. 61 ; Hook, f., FL Brit. 

 Ind., ii. p. 470. 



Ki. — North Australia to the Philippines and Bengal. With this exception, the genus 

 is not known to be represented in Australia ; the rest of the species being at home in the 

 Indian Archipelago and Pacific Islands. 



Eugenia javanica, Lam. ? 



Eugenia javanica, Lam.? Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 474. 



Jambosa alba, RumpL, Herb. Amb., i. p. 127, t. 39; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p.;41.°>, partim. 



Ki; Timor Latjt. — Archipelago, and Malayan Peninsula. There is an imperfect 

 specimen, from Ki Island, of another species of this vast and widely spread^ genus ; a 

 second from Arrou, and a third from Timor Laut. 



