AMelaleuca.| XLVIII. MYRTACE. 4 135 
6. M, violacea, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 8. A low spreading ‘glabrous 
ES the flowering branches often corky. Leaves e ut sessile, dni 
ing, cordate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or almost obtuse, rigid, 3-n 
long; lobes ovate, nearly as long. Petals 13 to above 2 lines diameter. 
See, undies 3 to 4 lines long, but always so much incurved as to ap- 
pear short ; claws narrow, exceeding the petals, with short not very nume- 
rous "dm innately arranged een near the base.  Ovules rather nume- 
Tous on a shortly bifid placenta ; style rather thick, with a dilated stigma, 
Pe 1 often corky, with prominent persistent lobes. —Schau. in PI. 
W.A King George's Sound and to the eastward towards Cape pe 
Preiss, n. Es 3, Oldfield, Maxwell, Drummond, Suppl. to 4th Coll. n. 6, T; (Swa 
S River, Drummon 
| Var. petiolata. Le smaller, shortly petiolate, rounded at the base.—Drummond, 
Bih Coll, Suppl. n 
Berres TIT. LATERA ALES.—Leaves alternate. Flowers usually small, in 
axillary or lateral clusters, the axis rarely growing out, the rhachis woolly 
pubescent or rarely glabrous 
1. Me oi F. Muell. Fragm. i. 225. A tall bushy shrub, with 
: ngid although often slender divaricate branches, the young shoots and inflo- 
"eg often pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate, from ve 
broadly cordate-ovate an or 3 lines long to ovate-lanceolate and nearly 
Se long, often EE ovate, acuminate or p gent-pointed, rigid, 
_ Strate with many nerves. Flowers usually rather small, white, in small 
- lateral clusters. Caly tub thick, above 1 line long, striate; lobes short, 
ad, continuous with the tube, occasionally with narrow scarious AAT 
E 
i 
3 nal “pet about 3 lines long; the claws spathulate, exceeding the petals, 
Es ith numerous filaments pinnately arranged along t the upper half, 
dated es Ze humerous, erect on a short lacenta ; style short, stigma not 
ig CS calyxes distinct, nearly globular, very smooth, about 4 
eg Murchison river, 0/4fie/d, including a Dei) with hee leaves. 
4 rem fora. Flowers small, the calyx us put River, Drum mmond, lst Col. J 
pe rid Bay, 2 
; : t, A 
SCHT longistaminea, V. Mu ell. (Staminal bundles $ in. long, the claws much longer 
e. petals.— M urchison river, Oldfield. 
ulata, Ben A very rigid shrub, with thick often tortuous 
y glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves alternate, lan- 
uth Jd ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute and. pungent-pointed, narrowed 
5 Sase, rigid, undulate but otherwise flat, more or less distinctly several- 
»Rot numerous, in lateral clusters of which the: upper ones rarely 
an irregular sedg qa the rhachis glabrous or pubescent. Calyx- 
