98 . XLVII. MYRTACEZ. [Agonis, ` 
flexuose, apparently spreading, the young shoots loosely silky-hairy. Leaves ` 
* erowded on the smaller branchlets, almost whorled under the flower-heads, 
dier acute or mucr onate, undulate, teach narrowed towards the 
bas “L- or 3-nerv rved, from about 4 to above % in. long. '|ower-heads 
Gerät or below the ends of the branches after the grow th of the axis, very 
dense, but few-flowered. Imbricate bracts broad, rigid, completely en- 
ode the calyx, surrounded by a whorl of floral leaves. Calyx-tube ` 
pubescent; lobes ciliate. Petal-claws coloured, as long as the calyx-lobes; ` 
lamina orbieular, very white. Stamens 10, een opposite the calyx-lobes 
and petals. Ovules 2 in each cell of Ze 
. Australia, Drum mond, 4th Coll. n UNE species is allied to 4. spathulata, ` 
differing chiefly in the narrower leaves uns in e bracts. No. 55, 4th Coll. of Drumm ond, 
y be the same MR in very youn 
* A. marginata, Schau. wh Pre . 117. sA tall iudi the | 
branches and young SCH clothed with soft ‘silly hairs. Leaves obovate | 
pm, A narrow ed into a short Ka Dive or minutely mucronate, 3 tol 
20 flowers. PYuibricáte bracts broadly orbicular, the inner ones obovate, con: ` 
cave. Calyx-tube rather above 1 line long; lobes about half as long, softly | 
ciliate, and silky -hairy. Petals snow-white, orbieular, above 1 line pe 
the petals and calyx-lobes. .Ovules. in each E of the ovary.—4 ef: 
spermum marginatum, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 10. t. 148; DC. od i 
226 ; Billiottia marginata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 827; Fabricia stricta, Lodl | 
Bot. Oa ab. t. 1219. | 
wW. stralia. Kin ng George’s ‘Sound, D Brown, — and adjoining del 
tricts, ia tear A Preiss, n. 141; Bazter, and ue j 
A. line mirum, feani in Pl. Pre 118. A tall | 
attaining 12 ft. or more in some tà do ew Gre shoots e and 
y hairy, GE glabrous. Leaves linear, linear-lanceolate, ome 
what cuneate, ian > acute and narrowed at the base, nerveless, xy ei 
nerved, 4 to . long. Flower-heads small, all axillary. Calyx -lobes | 
short, ovate, ee pubescent, ciliate. Petals with very short broad claws. 
Stamens m regularly Mesi ‘the calyx-lobes and petals, the filaments brea | 
nt the Ovules cell of the ovary.— Leptos EC watch 
DC. Prod. iii. 227; Mem. Myr. t.12; Billottia linearifolia, Q 
Sy à ii. 827; Agonis conspicua and 4. angustifolia, Schau. in Pi. Sch 
sre King George’s Sound and Lucky Bay, R. Brown, and thence to» eg 
Biver, ' dpparen tiy common, A. Cunningham, and others; Drummond, Lst Coll. t. 156; | 
3rd Coll. n. 42; 4th Coll. n. 57; Preiss, n. 142, 145, and in some ed n. 151 1, wide d 
ran wet 
entaum Sth Coll». 149, E remarkably narrow ent 
Cn, Aa EE E 
spicua) have V Zen m 
5. A. juniperina, Schau. im Pl. Preiss. i. 118. A tall dch | 
sometimes a tree of 40 ft. or even more, with icd branchés more 0r e 
