146 XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. (Melaleuca, ` 
red or white?) in interrupted 
and in others 4 to 3 in. long. Flowers (pale 
s quite 
me 
45. M. armillaris, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc, ii. 277. A tall glabrous 
shrub or sometimes a small tree, of 20 to 30 ft. Leaves scattered, crowded, | 
in. long or rather : 
ted cylin- 
Prod. iii. 213; M. ericefolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 175; Vent. 
t. 76; Wendl. Coll. i. t. 29, not of Sm.; Metrosideros a 
Fruct. i. 171. t. 34; Cav. Ic. t. 335. 
N. S. Wales. Pot Jackson, R. Brown, R. Cunningham, and others 
Richmond river, C. Moore; southward to Twofold Bay, 4. Cunningham, 
river, F. Mueller. E 
Victoria. Common on river-banks at the south-eastern extremity of the colony, ^. 
Mueller. Ki 
8, ia. Kangaroo Island, R. Brown. te. E 
Var. (?) tenuifolia. Léaves semiterete, very narrow, under A in. Jong. Flowerssm — 
— M. cylindrica, R. Br. Herb.—Dunk river, R. Brown, perhaps a distinct species. 
: northward to * 
and Towambt 
however often growing out into a leafy shoot before the flowering 1$ 
Calyx-tube attached by a rather broad base, about 1 line x 
short. Petals 1 line long. Staminal bundles about 3 lines long in the f 
fect flowers or 4 lines in the males, the claws exceeding the petals, each W 
12 to 15 or more filaments at the end.  Ovules numerous, on a pe , 
bifid placenta. Fruiting-spikes more or less interrupted; calyxes about 
lines diameter. 
— *W. Australia, Drummond, 9rd Coll. n. 44, 5th Coll. n. 149 ; Phillips Range ^: 
well. Notwithstanding the inflorescence, which in an artificial arrangement removes ^ 
a distance from M, viminea, it may possibly prove to be a variety only of that specie ` 
47. M. brachystachya, F. Muell. Fragm. iii, 119. A spree! 
