.—— Melaleuca.] XLVIII. MYRTACER. 147 
K filaments at the end. Ovules rather numerous, on a peltate placenta. 
LOW. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 150; Gardiner river and Middle Mount 
— uten, Marwell, i 
: the d base, t line long, thick, with short obtuse lobes. Petals fully 1 
| eh. with 7 to 11 filaments at the end. vules rather numerous, on a 
tU Placenta; stigma small. Fruits rather dense, about 2 lines diameter. 
wes Australia, Middle Mount Barren, Maxwell. Described from a single small 
e in Herb. F, Mueller. It is evidently nearly allied to M. brachystachya, and very 
à more glabrous small-leaved variety. 
Ri M. rhaphiophylla, Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 148. A tall shrub or 
55 attaining sometimes 40 to 50 ft., glabrous, except sometimes the inflo-, 
T6, the bark deciduous in paper-like sheets. Leaves alternate, narrow- 
, terete or slightly flattened, mostly acute and $ to 1 in., rarely only $ 
Seeasionally 13 in. long. Flowers yellowish-white, in oblong or cylin- 
mewhat, interrupted spikes, either terminal or the axis grown out 
C OWers expand, the rhachis and calyxes glabrous or slightly pubes- 
alyx-tube closely sessile, with a broad base, i lines long anc 
ilis ; lobes very short, broad and scarcely scarious. Petals 1 to 
ameter 
h Staminal bundles 4 to 5 lines long, the claws usually ex- 
the petals, each with about 15 to 20 filaments at the end or on the 
te above the middle. Ovules exceedingly numerous on a peltate pla- 
ealyxes smooth, nearly globular, 2 to 3 lines diameter, 
the somewhat thickened rhachis. 
Proc Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 143 and 150; Cape Naturaliste, Collie; 
RE ée n. 264 (also 267, according to Schauer, but that n. in Herb. Sonder, is 
Geen? A Murchison, Blackwood, Tweed and Fitzgerald rivers, Oldfield ; S. Hutt 
Mang jy et liner river, Mazwell ; and a shorter-leaved form, Fitzgerald and Phillips 
Spikes, the axis not growing out until after the flowering is over, 
ONY. Ta usually woolly-hirsute. Fruiting spikes very dense, globular or 
» Tarely reduced to 2 or 3 fruits. " 
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