150 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Melaleuca, 
20 filaments at the end. Fruiting-calyx often 3 lines diameter, globular, 
villous; the capsule separable into 3 cocci. Seeds short, thick, cuneate; 
cotyledons very broad, folded over each other. 
lia. Champion pn. and Murchison river, Oldfield, Walcott, Drummond, 
e o et n. ETA Sharks’ Bay, Mar : 
57. M. nesophila, 7. e a iii. 113. A shrub of 6 ik 
Fre the rhachis wn sta d glabrons or D villous. Een hot | 
long, the claws broad, not much exceeding the. petals, and sometimes vey ` 
short, with 10 to 15 Beni at the end. Ovules not very numerous, erect ` 
on a small placenta; stigma small. Fruiting spikes very dense, the calyxes 
ig often 3 lines diameter. 
tralia. Doubtful Island, Oldfield ; also Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 157 (wih 
rather Le flowers and fruits), 3rd = n. 54 (with rather longer and more acute pg 
d the rhachis and calyxes more villou 
58. M. Oldfieldii, F. Muell does ii. 118. A shrub of 3 or T : 
with slender branches, glabrous except the A oC Leaves alternate, 
oblong-lanceolate, with a fine almost pungent point, peapa into a rather 3 
bn, petiole, rigid, obscurely 3- or See d to 1 in. long. Howe a 1 
. Fruiting-heads Amd globular, 4 to $ in. diete; the rhachis and ` 
age tubes biel gt at length more or less concrete, the lobes scarious, 
Ee E EK 
and at length w ring away Seeds not numerous in each cell, erect on 3 - 
small placenta, but not seen een 
E w. Australia. Murchison river, Quiet 
59. M. uncinata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iv. 44 T 
shrub, t the young sigota more or less silky pubescent. Lea es alen e, 
Fruiting-spikes very dense and compact, rately above 3 in. "We the caly 
turbinate, truncate, E 14 lines long.— DC. bes tr 213; " Schau. inT 
Preiss. i. 138 ; M. ham ta, Field. and Ga rdn. S t. 74 du i Dru 
Schau. 1. c. 143 Vë, ZE not hoo 
d s. T Barre ba 2 t Lachlan river, Fras 
ctoria. Wimmera, Da//achy ; N.W. part of the edid: L. Morton 
Port Lincoln, R. Brown; SCH Point and Lake Victori d 
Mueller; Kangaroo Tsland, P. Reie Waterhous 
From € e south coast to Va sod Swan, and Murchison n rivers, e 
mond, Te Coll, n. 114 and 116, 3rd Coll. n. 48; Preiss, n. 270,278; Baxter; ^ 
Schau. in Pl. Preiss. 3 138 (rather este cava ipud: AM. se 
ooked). 
