Melaleuca. '"XLVIIL MYRTACEM, 149 
Staminal bundles 4 to 5 lines long, the claws scarcely exceeding the petals, 
with 20 or more filaments at the end. Ovary exceptionally glabrous on the 
top; ovules numerous in each cell, ona peltate bifid placenta—DC. Prod. iii, 
nex s 
Y. Australia. Lucky Bay, R. Brown; also Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 165. 
, 7*. M, cordata, Benth. Rigid and glabrous, except the inflorescence, 
Leaves humerous, alternate, very spreading, ovate or orbicular, cordate or 
ieid. d tly 3 
about l line diameter, usually with a deep-coloured centre. Staminal bundles 
4 to 5 lines long, the claws usually exceeding the petals, with 7 to 11 fila- 
. Tenis at the end. - Ovules not very numerous, erect, on a bifid placenta; 
ma small. Fruiting-calyx smooth, nearly 2 lines diameter, 
et Australia, Drummond, Sth Coll. n. 156, and Suppl. 5th Coll. n. 81. There are 
"à forms, one with the leaves 3 to 4 lines di ter, and obscurely nerved, the other with 
e 
leaves nearly twice as large and distinctly 5-nerved, but they do not otherwise differ. 
55. M. glo era, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iv. 411. 
| shrub or tree, attaining 30 ft., glabrous, or the young shoots and inflorescence 
slightly silky-hairy, the bark deciduous in paper-like layers. Leaves alter- 
hate, from almost obovate to narrow-obloneg 
i S, some of them almost free. Ovules not numerous, erect, on a 
Meo cto. Fruiting calyxes more or less concrete, forming dense glo- 
"wp 4.75 often 1 in. diameter.—DC. Prod. iii, 212. 
Midd P í ; Arid and 
Midde Island, "eg GE George’s Sound or to the eastward, Barter ; Cape Ari 
P aei megacephala, P. Muell. Fragm. iii. 117. A very bushy, 
loose mb, attaining 8 to 10 ft., the young shoots more or less villous with 
fr hu reading hairs, or rarely glabrous from the first. Leaves alternate, 
in wy Sbovate-orbicular and under 4 in. to obovate-oblong and nearly 
n E MN H obtuse or scarcely mucronate, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, 
| War ud 3- or 5-nerved. "Flowers yellowish-white, in dense terminal 
$ d 
e § p ", Persistent. Petals scarious, 13 to 2 lines diameter. Staminal 
9 to 6 lines long, the claws petal-like, rather broad, each with 10 to 
