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Melaleuca.) XLVIII. MYRTACER, 133 
. W. Australia. King George's Sound, R, Brown ; also Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 65; 
4th Coll. n. 66. 
. ll M.basicephala, Benth. Glabrous, with rather slender virgate 
_ branches. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate on luxuriant shoots, elliptical- 
branches grown out long before the flowers expand, the rhachis and calyxes 
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taining 9 lines, shortly united in bundles of 20 to 30; anthers ovate. Ovules 
_ Taher numerous, erect, on a small placenta ; style rather thick, with a small 
stigma 
*. M. gibbosa, Ladill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 30. é 172. An erect gla- 
Of 6 to 12 ft., either dense and bushy, or with loose slender 
qué With thick centres and petal-like margins. Petals scarcely above 1 
eta Stamens about 3 lines long or rather more, shortly united in 
9. Ovules rather numerous, but less so than in M. thymi- 
41" es on a short thick placenta. Fruiting spikes 4 to 1 in. long, the 
Somewhat enlarged, truncate, more or less immersed in the thickened 
Tlachis.— DO. Prod. iii. 215; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 129. 
lle Marsh places, between ians and Victoria ranges, F. Mueller, and 
Ké the Glenelg, Robertson f geg. "litt. : e 
(En river, E. Brown; common in the northern parts of the island, 
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oist places, Kangaroo Island, Waterhouse. 
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Tid noted in bundles of 10 to 15. Ovules rather numerous, erect 
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ded in the thickened woody rhachis.—DC. Prod. iii. 214; 
5; Colla, Hort. Ripul. t. 15; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1208; 
