116 "Set. MYRTACEA. Luten, | 
along the main branches. Bracts none besides the floral per Ge 1 
usually glabrous ; lobes small, ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Petals er d pm | 
1 line diameter. Stamens numerous, in 2 or 3 irregular series, at leas 
in PI. Preiss. i. Ms Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 130; Metrosideros e ; 
Jard. Malm. t ; DC. Prod. iii. 225 ; Setzen ambiguum, S v 
Trans. Linn. geg iii, 264, and Exot. Bot. t. 59; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 
N. 8. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 324. E 
ctoria. Maritime rocks, Wilson' s PRA Genoa river, F. Mueller ; den] d 
dee Wilhelmi 
Š wie Dien z Islands of Bass’s Straits ite Brown ; granite senis Gun-carriage ab | 
We sc Sak Backh ouse, Aem Schoute Island, Herb F. Mue d m 
he Port Jackson speci e leaves are more slender than he TE ju 
whi ch have véi Zeck) tomentose calyxes and constitute the A, eed F. Muell 
in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i 
a Sar Zu TRA Reichb. Consp. 115. Branches and young de 
r less villous with long soft hairs. Leaves obovate oblong or we 
iade erect and recurved at the end, rigid, concave, obtuse or with pe A 
recurved points, mostly 2 to 4 lines long, "|. or 3-nerved. Flowers in ei 
terminal heads, often becoming lateral by the development of the nit 
floral leaves her baceous, but usually smaller than the others, or the inner " 
reduced to scarious bracts; bracteoles cuneate, scarious, shorter e 
calyx-tube. Calyx-tube rather narrow, softly villous, about 3 lines ise 
lobes short, lanceolate, acute. Petals scarcely exceeding the calyx- 
a. Eu 
bn lengthened sometimes to 3 lines. Seeds ovoid, incurved ; testa tis 
cotyledons broad and rather thick, atin into a very short radicle.— 2 ei 
sideros capitata, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 273; DC. Prod. iil. 
Callistemon deir eina Cas EE Icon. Exot. i. 59. t. 84; Lier 
leuca eriocephala, Sieb. i yst, iii. 336; Kwnzea Schaueri, Lem 
au. in Pl. Preiss. i isi, aA hirsuta, em in Bull. Mose. 1862, ii | 
(from the character given). 22, n 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Geen, Sieber, mOra 
ict. n. 609, and others; northward to Hastings river, Fraser, 
Var. (?) glabres scens. Branches slender, divaricate. Leaves 2 to $ po long. 
few in the head. Calyx glabrous or ne arly so. — Between Port J: d and Sydney, R.B 
This variety almost connects the species with K. parvifolia. ` 
13. K, ae? Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 124, and in 2 
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