142 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Melaleuca. 
Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 145 ; gravelly soil in the interior, Phillip’s river, Cape Le 
and Cape Arid, Mazrwell. In the male flowers the calyx is much less adnate at ge al 
than in the perfect ones 
we quc Benth. A densely-branched glabrous shrub. Leaves 
scattered, sided, erect, narrow-linear, concave or semiterete, nerveless, obtuse 
ounded b 
urceolate, the tube fully 13 lines long; lobes nearly 1 line, ovate w ith sca- 
rious margins. Petals reflexed, nearly 2 lines long. Staminal indie about 
4 lines long, the claws shorter than the petals, each with very numerous t 
bem on Ke inner face as well as at the end and on the edges. Ovules 
merous in each cell, on a peltate placenta; style long, with a dilated dif 
Priti-elyx glo bular, truncate, 3 to 4 lines diamet 
wW. tralia. In the interior, J S. Roe. Allied to M. atit but with a very 
different foliage. 
36. M. leucadendron, Linn. Mant. 105. A tree often attaining à 
considerable size, with a thick often spongy bark peeling off in layers, t the 
ith ri h Leaves 
tical, elliptical or iiaii, dome oblique or falcate, acuminate, aeute ss 
obtuse, etak broad very rigid and 2 to 4 in. long, when narrow iom 
6 to 8 in. long, narrowed into a — 3- to "ner rved with miens 
brous = cuni tomentose or woolly. Cal x-tube ovoid, usually about 
1} lines long; lobes short, orbicular, often scarious on the margin. Petals 
1 to 14 lines diameter. Staminal bundles under 2 in. long, the claws some- 
much sce than the radicle.—F. Muell. ve iv. 55; M. ler Mes Be 
inn. ; M. minor, Sm. ; and M. vi GE Gærtn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 212, ai 
. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, mmon from the 
Victoria river to the Gulf of Carpentaria, P Lan and Tr ipiis ; 
ow. een On the coast at various pointe from the Betri to Moreton Bs ` 
SE Mi oe SCH R. Brown, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and others; also in theintè — 
rior, Mite. 4 E 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieb. 8- 319, and 
others ; "pm and Clarence rivers, Beck 
