Melaleuca.) XLVIII. MYRTACE X. : 137 
furrows of the cork, the rhachis and calyxes 
Calyx-tube campanulate, about | line long; lobes ovate, rather shorter than 
Petals above 1 line long, very spreading or deflexed. Stamens 
surely above 3 lines long, shortly united in bundles of 7 to 11. Ovules ` 
i .  Fruiting-calyx about 2 
lameter, more or less corky, and ofte half-immersed in the cork of 
the branch.— Coothamnus (?) suberosa, Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 156. 
W. Australia, R. Brown ; towards Cape Riche, Preiss, n. 206 3, Drummond, n. 17, 
H and 5th Coll. n, 161, Mazwell. 
mond’s specimens, 5th Coll. n. 162, 168 (partly) have the bright red flowers and 
other characters of M. exarata, except that the branches are not at all corky. 
2. M, fasciculiflora, Benth. Glabrous, except sometimes the inflo- 
rescence, the branches not at all or only slightly corky. Leaves scattered, often 
crowded, linear, thick, concave or semiterete, obtuse, in some specimens all 
3 in. in others 3 to z in. long. Flowers apparently white, in lateral 
S Gr S not numerous, erect on a small bifid placenta ; stigma 
Zut "rg al x thick, about 2 lines diameter, scarcely corky, densely 
, ay, Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 159, 164, 168 (partly); Gordon river, ` 
Ze M. teretifolia, Endl, in Hueg. Enum. 49. A tall erect, shrub 
S mr ped branches, quite glab 
S » SMooth or slightly sul 
Flowers white, rather egene 
ve, rigid, acute, mostly 14 to 2 in. lon 
: 
Te : : : 
2m Peltate placenta . : : : ss A Wie. 
` hitcalyx about agen style rather thick, with a broad stigma.  Frui 
E Walt Fr ines diameter, urceolate or nearly globose.— M. hakeacea, 
YB, and in PL Preise Ze gymuagatkis teretifolia, Schau. in Linnen, xvii. 
WI a. Marshes or moist sandy places. Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, 
i ten (2nd Colt. ?) n. 49; Woodman's Foint and Hester Point, Preiss, n. 268, 269; 
er, Oldfield ; Hampde ; Clark. 
T 
SCH 94 
holy verti lsophila, A. Cunn. Herb. Quite glabrous, Leaves alternate, 
e u io g oblanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse, much narrowed at the 
Wu $523 in. long, flat, thick, rigid, obscurely 3- or 5-nerved. Flowers 
In small sessi] ws 
Petals small, exceedingly deciduous. Staminal bundles 
long, the claws exceeding the petals, each with 7 to 11 fila- 
