144 XLVIIl. MYRTACER, [ Melaleuca. 
by the persistent lobes.—DC. Prod. iii. 212; AL lanceolata, Otto, from the | 
E in DC. Prod. iii. 212; Sie bracteata, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 15; Me 
rosideros decora, Salisb. Prod. 3 
N. Australia. gek 8 ders e ali and Upper Gilbert rivers, F. Mueller, also ` 
M Gm Stuarts Expedit 
enslan ae river, Fraser, A. Cunningham, and others; Pine river and | 
| Ag Elliott, s Fitzalan ; Marlborough, "Bo 4 
Port Ja ekson, ez Paramatta, R. Brown, Woolls ; New England, 
C. Stuart ; doa sr river, Fras i 
39. M. s styphelioides, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 275. A tall tree, ` 
attaining sometimes 80 ft., the young shoots and inflorescence silky-pubescent 
or villous, otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, — 
acuminate, pungent- pointed, mostly about 4 in. long, rigid, finely striate, | 
with many nerves. Flowers in rather dense oblong or cylindrical spikes, the — 
axis growing out before t the e flowering is over, th floral leaves either like the : 
stem ones and persistent or reduced to deciduous bracts. Calyx-tube ovoid, j 
a 
than the calyx- rhe each with several filaments shortly pinnate -— the upper ` 
portion. Ovules very numerous, closely packed on a small pla Fruit- : 
ing spikes often ey, the calyxes crowned by the rigid erect eier —Colla, j 
` Hort. Ripul. App. t E 
N. S. Wales. den Suse to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, — Woolls, Mis ` 
Athinson ; Hastings, Clarence, and Richmond rivers, Becker, C. Moo 
40. M. Huegelii, Zndl. in Hueg. Enum.48. An erect shrub, e : 
6 ft., with virgate or spreading branches, usuall glabrous, except the 1 
rescence. Leaves alternate, spiral, Wells, "attached by the broad cona 1 
divided at the end, each into 7 to 11 filam ents. Ovules not very nun 
in each cell, erect, on a short placenta ; "iin small  Fruiting die 
drical, not very dense, the ive about 9 Se anei globular, cro rowned 
by the persistent lobes.—S . in Pl. Preiss, 
^ Sands, us Cam Huegel, bag! D | (3rd Coll. 9)". ai 
Preiss, n. 293, Oldfield. x 
41. M. dissitiflora, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 153. Very closely allied © 
e linophylla, and rats a variety, and om distinguished by the fl flowers 
wice as large. Young shoots silky-pubesce Leaves alternate, 
pss uad acutely acuminate, narrows at the o 1 to 14 in. long, Mi 
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