ales, 
E AEN 4, M'Arthur , 
| Melaleuca.] XLVIII, MYRTACER. 139 
A F. Mueller. Very near M. angustifolia, the veins of the leaves more numerous and slender, 
y lateral, and the bracts smaller 
28. M. angustifolia, Gertn. Fruct. i. 172. t. 35. Glabrous or the 
yous shoots slightly silky. Leaves alternate, narrow-oblong, often narrowed 
base, mostly 1} to 2 in. long, flat, often vertical, distinetly 5-nerved. 
broad. Petals 1} lines diameter. Staminal bundles 4 to 5 lines long, the 
claws e in a ring at the base, narrow, exceeding the — each with a 
us short slender filaments at the end; anthers:very small. 
Ovules irent i in each cell, erect on a ze: t placenta. Pruiti og about 
$ in. diameter, the fruits very closely mc but scarcely connate, the 
¢alyx-tube circumsciss and dec iduous, leaving the adnate part dag ona 
_ level with the tube. “phage ay Ger inti. Schau. in ven xvii. 243; 
land. Endea seep nks and Solander, A. Cun 
In some heads the oe eg rem mall and abortive ; the calyx, d uk after flower- 
€ becomes br broadly Weste, del by the persistent hardened claws of the staminal 
feiner figures the seeds as shin but it is doubtful whether he had them perfect, 
otherwise he would en seen the emb 
growing out before the flow wering is over, nes in dene lateral cylindri 
spikes. Rhachis glabrous pubescent or villou 
29. M. pauciflo ora, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1847, i. 166. A tree of 60 
to 80 ft., the young shoots silky-pubescent, the older foliage glabrous. 
Leaves opposite, E from oblong-elliptical and obtuse or mucronate to 
lanceolate and acute, 4 to 4 in. long, rather thin with the margins often re- 
curved and the midrib prominent underneath as in M. hypericifolia. Flowers 
(white?) few, small, in short terminal spikes, the axis growing out before the 
Owering is over, the rhachis pubescent. Calyx glabrous, campanulate ; the 
tube s Scarcely above 4 line long; lobes nearly as long, ovate, obtuse. Petals 
cam l We diameter. Staminal bundles 3 to 4 lines long, the claws usually 
eg than the petals but variable, each with 7 to 15 filaments at the end; 
ih ers small. Ovules rather se in each cell, erect on a small pelate 
pets; style long with a small ma. Fruiting-calyx rather 
e p KSE crowned by the gece lobes, but not seen very perfect. 
“ East Australia, en n. 40;" n. aiit e esu Se woods sie roh to 
I have n n Gilbert’s ime M‘ 
A po s ek and cke peculiar bisou i in no other de? t 
e A Mi ver, A specimen Kcd vw from the muddy banks of the Yarra in Herd. 
a rud this spec 
^ne Sm. in xp es Linn. Soc. vi. 300. A handsome 
pw À b, zeng ong 6 to 10 ft., but sometimes attaining twice that 
3 “iden or the young shoots and inflorescence pubescent or villous, 
