600 THREE NEW SPECIES OF MYRTACE^E, 



or 3 terminal, rhachis glabrous or with a few rusty-coloured 

 minute hairs. Calyx-tube stumpy, cylindrical, about 1 line in 

 diameter, or 1 line long, lobes short, hemispherical, one-half the 

 length of the petals. Petals obtuse, 2 lines long; stamens almost 

 white, of irregular length, connate at the base forming a ring, as 

 shown in Plate xxvi. Fruit sessile, cylindrical, about 2 lines in 

 diameter and 1 J deep, rim counter-sunk before opening, but thin 

 when mature. 



Arbor mediocris vel magna. Cortex papyraceo-lamellosus. 

 Ramuli robusti, glabri. Folia circiter 2" longa, 1" lata, alterna, 

 elliptica, ovata, erecta, rigida, 3-5 nervis. Spicse circiter 1J" 

 longse, axillares vel terminales, densse, cylindraceae, spicse glabrae; 

 flores albi. Calyces vix 1 \'" longi, glabri, lobis obtusis. Antherae 

 pallidae, didymo-rotundae. Fructus 1 J'" longi, cylindracei, truncati. 



Uab. — Rose Bay, Bondi, Gosford, and Terrigal. 



Timber.— A hard, close-grained, medium-weight wood, having 

 a light pinky colour, inclined to become red, with a large wavy 

 figure, planes and dresses well and takes a good polish. Could 

 be used for general building purposes, but especially for posts, 

 being, like its congeners, very durable in the ground. It would 

 be very suitable for boat-building, and should rank as a cabinet 

 timber of some merit, as the colour and texture are very suitable 

 for this branch of industry. It can be distinguished from M. 

 Maideni by its pronounced sapwood, which is readily attacked 

 by borers. 



Remarks. — Of the species ranked as M. Leucadendron in the 

 past, this probably has the smallest leaves, except that of M. 

 lanceolata R.Br., Herb. There is a specimen of this species in 

 the National Herbarium, Melbourne, labelled by Robert Brown 

 as M. viridiflora, but that cannot stand in view of Solander's 

 figure (1788) and description, in the " Illustrations of the Botany 

 of Captain Cook's Voyage, &c, 1768-71 " (1900) edited by J. 

 Britten, F.L.S., and published by the Trustees of the British 

 Museum. 



It is a swamp-loving species in the area of its distribution, and 

 so gregarious, and, like its congener here described, is commonly 

 known as the " Broad-leaved Tea-Tree." 



