104 XLVIII. MYRTACEZX. [Leptospermum. : 
3. L. firmum, Benth. A tall erect glabrous shrub, with — p 
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or rather obtu use, narro o the — 
base, rigid, 3 to 1 in. lo Kë Flowers rather large, closely ten Padi 
Keen bro Ad. membranous, at re? deciduous. Ovary 4-celled or rarely 9- — 
or 5-celled, with numerous closely-packed but short ovules in each ell, ` 
e calyx-tube. eeds usually 1 or 2 perfect in each cell, obovate- 
diene? seus iris flattened, more or less surrounded by a thin wing breaking — 
up into cilia as in L. levigatum, and em mn also as in that species; barren | 
seeds very numerous, small, often irregular] winged. —Hom alospermum fire 
mum, Schau. in Linnæa, xvii. 242, and in Pl. Preiss. i. 119. 1 
alia. King George's Sound, R. Brown ; chiefly i in marshy places, from the ` 
ath: oa Swan River, 4. Cu nningham, Drummond, lst Coll. n. 139, Preiss, n. M3 
per 148, sc? others. 4 
Section IT. EurrPTOsPERMUM.—Ovary usually 5-celled or, SC i 
in the last two species, 4- or 3-celled. Ovules numerous. Seeds, both pet- 1 
fect and sterile, IA OE Tindal without wings. 
4. L. flavescens, S». in ira Linn. Soc. iii. 262. Usually a DR 
shrub, quite glabrous or the g parts minutely silky-hoary. ves 
from narrow-oblong or ees to broadly oblong or even obovate, | 
obtuse or Ger? acute, rigid, flat, Ware or l- or 3-nerved, attainiug - 
2 in. in the largest forms but usually under and sometimes all very sm mall. | 
Flowers wen, derminating the Visi or perte pon nearly sessile, 35 
variable in size as in L. laniyerum, and of the same shape. Calyx x quit E 
glabrous, the tube broadly campanulate or hemispherical; lobes ovate, as long ` 
" the tube, membranous or thickened, in the centre. Ovar -celled, mot ` 
‘ : ; Mel rinermb. ` 
White, Trav. 229. t..24 kic polygalifoliuni, Salisb. Prod. 350; E 
t Thea, Willd. Spec. B ii. 949, and (on his authority) Melaleuca, Bey d 
endl. Sert. Hannov. 24. t. 13 L. tuberculatum, Poir. Dict. Suppl. in T 
(from the character given | 
Queensland. Abundant "M Brisbane river and Moreton Bay, A. Cunnin ham, Fe ] 
uu and others ; wë Island, 4. Cun dient m ; Po ea a tan : S 
n. s. W Jackson. to the Blue Mountains; R. Brown, Sieber 315, at 
Mizt. n. 549, wn iin in the interior, Fraser ; New England, €. Stuart; "e ? 
A, Cunningham. 1 
yi ctoria. Buffalo Range, Yarra, GE I 
asmania. Abundant on banks of ri eg hor Me tane P E 
mm species, which extends also into the Indi searoely 0 
be gin, papes? from L. lanigerum * d by dé hex Tr E ht from Di 
x, and is equally variable, the extreme Kate being at first sight so dissimilar that f 
requ he examination a of a large number of specimens to believe in their specific ider 
tity, and at the same time it is almost impossible to draw a a precise line of demarcation w 
tween this an S others. The following are d varieties which appear to to be them? | 
2 
— = dist middl Ww 
rrow, from und er } in. to 
Bot. Mag. t. "2695; Li poro ophyilum, Cav. Ic. iv. 17. É TN E 2 om ages te e ec 
L. amboinense, DC. Prod. iii. 229, at least the specimens so named by Mique : 
