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132 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Melaleuca. 
1 in. lo ong, the glandular dots usually very conspicuous and black. Flowers ` 
large and showy, of a rich red, in rather loose oblong lateral spikes, the axis 
only growing out after flowering. Calyx-tube urceolate-globular, glabrous, | 
2 lines diameter or rather more; lobes short, broad, scarious, with thick | 
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stigma slightly dilated FINDEN when full grown, thick, har 
yin Lë peck but in many i pro Sage small, wv ape 
be A lia. DE gra Sa y ridges, King George’s Sound, and to the wiet 
T Baxter, Maxwell. The foliage is that of M. radula, but the flowers are very 
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Series IL. Decussat#.—Glabrous bushy shrubs. Leaves opposite, - 
small, flat or concave, nerveless or l- or 3-nerved. Flowers pink or rarely A 
white, in small heads or clusters along the previous year's stems, or forming ` 
short loose We e M. base of the new shoot already grown out before the ` 
flowers expand, rarely (in xd es a few males also in terminal heads. - 
Rhachis and E dr ou E 
l. Fragm. i. 15. Glabrous, with rather 
clitiol, ) 
acute or acuminate, and sometimes pungent-pointed, narrowed at t the ben 
mostly 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers whitish, few together, in lateral 2 ia 
on the previous year's branches. Calyx-tube ovoid, rounded at the bas 
add 1 i long ; lobes very short and obtuse. Petals about 1 
minal bundles 3 to 4 lines long, the claws exceeding the Ei 
e? py at the end into about 9 to 15 filaments. Ovules numerous, " 
a short usually bifid placenta. — Fruiting-calyx nearly globular, t truncate, a 
2 lines diameter 
Victoria. E and Murray Desert, Da T 
S.A Port Lin " R Bidk, Moast E E Creek, L. Fischer ; — E] 
Island, R. Brown, Waterhous. 3 
wW. Mu iaa river, Oldfield (with whitish flowers, as in the S, Aw 
tralian specimens); in the interior, J. S. Roe (with flowers apparently reddish, and g 
rather narrower). 3 
. M. leptoclada, Benth. Glabrous, = spreading elongat ted den 
étiform branches. Leaves opposite, often dista nt, elliptical oblong-linear 
lanceolate, acute or rather obtuse, flat or concave, in some specimens under 
lines, in others 3 to 6 lines long, nerveless or obscurely:l -nerved. Flo 
very small and few at the base of the leafy MAC growing out long 5X 
Calyx- 
petals, shortly united in bundles of 9 or Ovules not very nume J 
erect, on a small placenta ; Mes. rather thick, on a small stigma. ` ro 
calyx attaining 14 lines diamet = 
