136 XLVIII. MYRTACES. [ Melaleuca. 
tube ovoid, above 1 line long; lobes short, broad, thick, striate, with narrow 
w on the inner face. Ovules not very numerous, erect on a short 
placenta; stigma small. Fruiting-calyx thick, hard and smooth, about 3 
lines diam 
W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd or 4th Coll. n. 45 ; between Cape Arid and Lucky 
Bay, Bazter ; to comida the Great Bight, Maxwell. This species has the leaves sometimes of 
M. styphelioides, but a very different inflorescence and calyx. A specimen from the Mel- 
bourne Hecate Garden ei the young shoots hairy. 
Var. m Leaves narrower, nearly those ei M. lateriflora, var. acutifolia, but the 
flowers ‘of "M. ärm —Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 172. 
19. M. elachophylla, F. Muell. éi ii. 120. A bushy glabrous 
shrub of several feet. Leaves scattered, spreading, ovate, obtuse, 1 to nearly 
2 lines long, flat or slightly concave, thick, rigid, nerveless. Flowers pink or 
above | line diameter. Staminal teris 3 to 4 lines long, the claws about 
as long as the petals, each with 7 to 11 filaments. Ovules not very nume- 
rous, on a peltate placenta. Fruiting-calyx about 2 lines diameter. 
ustralia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 153 ; Fitzgerald river, Maxwell. 
20. M lateriflora, Benih. Glabrous except the slightly pubescent — 
oung shoots and the it inflorescence. Leaves alternate, broadly deer 
m rm, 
rigid, Besich several-nerved, narro wed into a distinct petiole. Flowers 
scarious edges. Stamin 
longer than the petals, each with numerous filaments clustered at the end ` 
wit i | 
bifid placenta; style, when perfect, long, with a small stigma. Fruiting- 
GE very smooth, about 14 um diameter, crowned by the short persistent 
o 
a Drummond "M Coll. ?), n | 
w Australia, . T5. d 
ar. elliptica. Leaves most] broadly elli S ith a few 
the GEES only pecia s iptical uns de 4 fo 6 lines der Jat 5 Coll.) — 
A. E 
T Var. aculifolia. Leaves et agesin Ree or slightly ome SC nerve- 
on The fo 
— Drum 5th Coll. n e leaves in this so different | 
that it seems difficult to unite it st that first descri ch but the rar nia an i flowers — 
are precisely the same, and the var. elliptica is intermediate as to foliage. 
21. M. e DR A bes l. Fragm. ii. 114. A low spreadiug ege 
glabrous except ees the inflorescence, the bark of the flowerin branches 
Y córky and deeply furrowed. ^ Leaves scattered, crowded, linear, thick, ` 
concave or semiterete, obtuse, 2 to 3 lines lo ong, often much tu 
Flowers small, red, irregularly we along the previous year’s anche 
or forming long cylindrical but not dense spikes, and usually inserted in the 
