124 a XLVIII. MYRTACEÆ. [Melaleuca. 
rarely persistent, ape orien at the in 3 valves, and occasionally 
separable from calyx into 3 cocci. Seeds more or less cuneate, the 
perfect ones de few, faite thin; embryo geed or scarcely curved ; coty- 
ledons flat, plano- venis or folded and embracing each other, longer than the 
radicle.—Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate or in a few species opposite, 
entire, usually sen ni us, flat concave or eme 1- 3- or several nerv 
A2 rarely thinner with re recurved margins. Tav wers red white or yellow, 
branch. Bracts usually scale-like and often imbricate in the young spike, 
but usually deciduous a before EEN Bracteoles usually small and 
deciduous, or sometimes none. 
e genus i ied EE Australian, ei the few supposed species common in the 
The 
rem cr Gu o be varieties of a single one which is also widely dispersed . 
It 
cal and Sie d t is aho, generally speaking, a well- defined group, 
readily distinguished from Callistemon by the 5-adelphous stamens, from Conothamnus by 
es and seeds, and fi ] ant 
the ovules and d rtia and its allies by the ic The ouly excep- 
ions are one or two ies in which the s Lt bundles are so short as to 
connect the genus with Callistemon, of which o cies (C. speciosus) has the stamens 
almost or quite eid emus but single tra Get? SAR appear scarcely to justify the 
union o: Med ^ otherwise well chara 
The great simila pair of structure throu e seis p the establishing any 
definite yr eene the specific dist Naso "i-e chiefly on habit, foliage, and inflores- 
cence, neither the opposite pem of some species, nor even the deci obs calyx-rim of the ` 
few yrti, haying any other character in common t justify their separation as sec- 
tions , The foll series, therefore, alth ugh the bes A Sei been able to devise, will be 
Na E ro meve.— Flowers large, red or rarely gr eenish-yellow, i in oblong 
em P or Hi dii empti lateral on the old wood or 
pec the b rie" d di branches. Calyx broad at the base. Stamens above 4 in. long 
(not exceedi; in any other series e 
Leaves altern 
Leaves hoe 1 to Wé in. long. a of the CS 
bundles long . 1. M. longicoma. 
Leaves lanceolate 3 to 4 in. lon wers large | in a long 
spike. © the siasii idle very short . Callistemon speciosus. 
line linear or ied s erect or scarcely s spreading, mostly 
in. long. — of "ng staminal bundles short 
r concave, mim odd 9. M. lateritia. | 
Sede semiterete or doe fattened, obtuse e. s. A. M. calothamnoides. 
Leaves deg. — all under 3 in. long. 
es lin r linear- ate, acute, under X in. long. 
balia os aen ws long b 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or e oblong, obtuse, 8 to 5 lines long. 
Staminal claws short 
4. M. bleriafolia. 
j smifolia 
- — Leaves me: hue, Staminal claws long. Dc a Gegen var. 
Leaves opposite claws lo 
Leaves elliptical- uu mies flat very qme; under ki. in. - 6. M. elliptica. 
Leaves lanceolate or y gs with ree rved m pju 
minent midrib, $ to 14 in. long e 7 AM gene 
Choco, e nerveless, Fto n. long . . 8. M. fulgen 
Leaves — inear- —— Sé to bs Lë 
lowers T 
scarcely eoi ~ « . Lé M. Wilsoni. 
