.— Melaleuca.]. XLVIII. MYRTACER. 131 
| shrub. Leaves scattered, spreading, crowded, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, ob- 
| tuse, rigid, 1-nerved, numerous, and all about the same size, 3 to 4 lines long 
 Wenis, nu 
lyx depressed-globular, very thick and hard, often nearly 4 in. diameter.— 
` D Prod. iii. 212 ; M. chlorantha, Bonpl. Pl. Malm. 22. t. 8; M. foliosa, 
j to DC. 
OW. Australia, King George's Sound, Menzies, aud to the eastward, Baudin's Erpe- 
dition, 4. Cunningham, Drummond. The leaves in Andrews’s figure are unusually narrow ; 
E Boupland 5 represents the more ordinary form. 
ei 5 lines long; lobes ovate, thick, about 1 line. Petals about 2 
Staminal 
4 er i l ery mu 
ei the petals, each with a cluster of 20 to 30 filaments at the ends; 
t.p ovate. Ovules exceedingly numerous in each cell, covering the back 
. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 140, 187; J. S. Roe; Young river, Marwell, 
; d. iii. 214 I 
. 10; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 199 ; Metro- 
51. 
Swampy places, Port Jackson, Burton; the other 
i e imens I 
er, of do Several other herbaria, are all cultivated, unless it be one in Herb. 
The len metal origin, but found by him amongst some Ca/listemons, from Moreton 
wi fulgens, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iv. 415. A tall gla- 
"A Leaves mostly opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate, ~~ or. 
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