140 | XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. [ Melaleuca, 
bracts. Calyx-tube ovoid, above 1 line long; lobes very short, herbaceous, 
obtuse. Petals scarcely 1 line long. Stamens rarely above 3 lines long, very 
vules 
spikes rather dense, but not closely compact as in the Capitate.—DC. Prod. 
ii. 215; Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 28. t. 169; Bot. Mag. t. 1935 ; Hook. f. 
Fl. Tasm. i. 129; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1130; M. myrtifolia, Vent. Jard. 
Malm. t. 47. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Fraser, R. Cunningham, and 
others; Illawarra, Shepherd. 
ictori Marshes of the Yarra, F. Mueller; moist heaths on the Glenelg, Rodertson ; 
Portland, A//£t. 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant in moist sandy soil, J. D. Hooker. 
S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, R. Brown; towards Rivoli Bay, F. Mueller. 
1. M. eleutherostachya, P Muell. Fragm. iii. 117. A tall bushy 
shrub with virgate branches, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves oppo- 
site, linear or lanceolate, mostly erect and recurved, acuminate with a short 
recurved point, flat or concave, nerveless or 3-nerved, 3 to 4 in. long. 
Flowers (white?) in oblong or cylindrical spikes of about 1l in., not very 
dense, lateral and sessile or shortly pedunculate on the old wood, the axis 
very rarely growing out into a leafy branch, the rhachis woolly. Calyx-tube 
. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield ; Sharks’ Bay, Milne. 
Var. abietina. More rigid. Leaves spreading, short, very rigid, decussate on the y ounger 
branches.—Drummond 5th Coll. n. 160, J. S. Roe. 
32. M. linariifolia, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 278, and Exot. Bot. 
t.56. A tall tree, with slender branches, the young shoots and inflorescencè 
$toliun lowers in distinct pairs, in rather dense spikes of 1 to 
1} in., at first terminal or in the upper axils, the axis soon growing out into 
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or petal-like margins. Petals about twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Sta 
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