152 XLVIH. MYRTACEX. [ Melaleuca, — 
N. Australia. Upper Mobi river, F. Mue 
S. Australia. N.W.in terior, M Dovall Start 8 Erpedition. 
W. Australia. Murchison river, O/d, 
The specimens being in fruit only, the sae is doubtful, and may possibly include M. 
hakeoides. 
M. pentagona, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 97. t. 166. A tall 
d with virgate branches, the young shoots often silky-downy, otherwise 
glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves alternate, lance olate or linear, 
Petals Se 1 line diameter. Resigns not o 2 lines s dud united ] 
in bundles of 3 to 7. Ovules not nu merous, erect from a small placenta, E 
Fruiting-calyxes about 2 lines Wëlzer: often few only in an ovoid head, ` 
when more numerous the HET Med compact and globular.— DC. Prod. iii. : 
213; pesa in Pl. Preiss. : 
ap d v Tabane e n 5th Coll. n. 152; sandy soil near salt " 
oons, hone ce Bay, M, 
Var. subulifolia, Schau. upra ves "nd subnlate, oo rigid, spreading, furrowed under : 
A George's Sound, R. Brown ; i Be emt yer n. 809; Drummond, : 
Th; 3 
Coll. n. 57 ; granite hills, Cape P (e pict " Possibly a dist: tinct species, but our 
ameo of the different forms of M. pentagona are not sufficiently good to judge of their 
mits. The species sometigges approaches M. striata in foliage, but is readily distinguished 
by the small globular flower-heads, 
- M. ciliosa, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1862, ii. 326. lage rigid, 
be only s 4 
about 5 lines long, divided to about the middle or lower down into 9 to : 3 
filaments; anthers small. Ovules rather numerous in each cell, on a sh 
centa. 3 
W. Austr Between Moore and Murchison deng Re oi Coll. n. " 
M. lep gier Schau. in PL Preiss. i. 139, from Quangen Plains, Preiss, x ^. 
may possibly be the same species, and if so this name da uld be preferred to Tureza SCH 
In one of the very imperfect xia seen, the leaves are broader than in Drummo i 
in the other they are mostly nar 
. M. polycephala, Ben nth. Rigid, with divaricate branches, " the 
: or shoots slightly hoary. Leaves alternate, spreading, ovate, 0" 
Flowers small, pink, in small dense terminal globular ‘heads, the axis 
growing out until after flowering, the rhachis and calyxes villous. Ge 
