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AM - XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Melaleuca. 
parviflora, Reichb. Iconogr. Exot, t. 31 ; M. oligantha, F. Et Mig nc 
Nol Kruidk. Arch. iv. 123; M. tetragona, Otto; DC. Prod. i i. 918. 
mmit of Mount William IS others of the Grampians, F. p (a form 
ith low de LE: stems and narro 
d S. Aus Lake S. coast, R. Brow as et ee and Marble Range, Wilhelmi; On — 
kaparinga range, F. Mueller ; St. Vi éent Gulf, Blandows 
rr. br ns Dech, from the diagnoses in Waip- des ii. 162, is most probably a garden | | 
ses of M. decus. : 
. M. Wi 
iit glabrous or "the. young shoots slightly Kuch Leaves opposite, | 
ilsonii, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 194. t. 15. A tall elegant A 
almost imbricate on the smaller br SE E or linear-lanceolate, erect or 
‘covering a laterally attached peltate placenta. 
ictoria. Around Lake Hindmarsh, Wim Den Dallach m 
S. Aus Desert of the Tattiara country, J. E. Woods; Port Lincoln, 2. Brow 
(with more obtuse and somewhat 1| — leaves). 
15. M. thymifolia, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 278 and Exot. DT Hi 
: vering aere oí d. Leaves mostly opposite, 
on ellptical-oblong or almost linear, nearly acute, 3 to $ in long 
more, rigid, con the midri ely conspicuous. Flowers 
alyx-tube 
shorter, thick and obtuse. Petals nea.ly 9 lines ken? Stami a 
iin. long, the claws exceeding the petals, each with numerous fi 
pinnately arranged along the upper half with a few on the inner face; : 
very small. Ovules exceedingly numerous in each cell, densely covenng 
peltate placenta; style rather long, the stigma slightly dilated. 
nala, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 278; M. gnidiefolia, Vent. Jard. Malm. t 
color, Reich. in Spreng. I ii. 337; leonogr. Exot. t 
gracilis, — Prod. 3 
N. S. Port pe ie to bus Blue Moantaine, R. Brown, Burton, 
823, and Bee $ iln river, Beck 
Some specimens from Gharchi Island, Port Phillip, Gunn, have the A 
of this species, but rather smaller, in other respects they are more like a nd perhaps BT ` 
of M. decussata. 
In some of R, Brown's specimens the leaves are all narrow-linear. 
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