Jlelaleuca.] XLVIII. MYRTACER: 188 ` 
globular heads, the axis not growing out till after flowering, e rhachis and 
calyxes pubescent or villous. Bra cts more persistent than in M. scabra. 
Calyx-tube membranous, rather above 1 line long; lobes one scarious, 
Ss , : Bs. ; 
filaments ; anthers ovate. Ovules not numerous in each cell, erect on a small 
peltate placenta. Fruiting-calyxes urceolate-globular, very smooth, 2 to 
nearly 3 lines diameter, not numerous, but close ely packed ina risen head. 
obovoid-cuneate ; cotyledons broad, more or les ed. 
Murchison river, Oldfield ; Drummon be n. 13. 
» Australia, 
Var. virgata, Scarcely neng Branches elongated with less crow ded leaves. Flowers 
Det smaller, — Drummon d, 6th Coll., n. 71. 
The species differs from D scabra chiefly i in the colour-of the flowers. 
. . 15. M. tricho ophylla, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 8. Very spreading or 
sometimes prostrate, often extending to several ft., either hirsute with fine 
. Spreading hairs, especially the young shoots, or quite glabrous. Leaves 
red, crowded, especially under the flower-heads, linear-terete, slender, 
obtuse or almost acute, 4 to 2 in., or in other specimens $ to 1 in. long, 
smooth or tuberculate. Flowers u usually but not always larger than in M. 
„Kubra, pink, in dense terminal globular heads, the axis not growing out till 
$ after flowering, the rhachis and calyxes tomentose or villous. Bracts very 
deciduous or rarely persistent at the time of flowering. Ca alyx-tube under 1 
line long; lobes sca rious, ovate or oblong, usually longer than the tube, but 
JI uregular in size, and often more or less confluent. Petals not much 
longer than the calyx-lobes, eme bundles about 4 in. long, claws narrow, 
ed the EEN cita o 9 filaments at the end; anthers small. 
De “ry numerous, on a small peltate placenta; stigma small. 
` Prting-caly re iiber MAE or two or fije together, smooth, truneate, 
E b. es diameter, —Schau. in EL Preiss. i. 136; M. ereinea, F. Muell. 
2 ` Australia, Swan River, Drummond, lst Coll. ; Murchison river and Champion 
26 tts bas —Very near M. scabra, differing chiefly in the more slender leaves and longer 
di holoseric cea, Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 139. A bushy shrub of 
: branches and fol oliage hoary-tomentose or sometimes silky- 
: Ki Leaves Scattered, crowded, linear, terete or semiterete, acute or ob- 
$ in. long or more on the principal branches. Flowers Pues ?) in 
Haha minal globular heads, the axis not growing out till after fi g; 
line | and. calyxes tomentose-villous. Calyx-tube campanulate, Sec 
limes? lobes bro ad, CS often confluent. Petals about 1 line 
> Staminal bundles a t 4 lines long, the claws often exceedi 
tel A A with 5 to 1] Hdl p^ the end. Ovules not very numerous, 
) a. 
a. 31 ia. River, Mond, lei Coll. n. 111; sandy plains near Quangen, 
55 Dirk pes s Island, Mart 
2) uamea, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 28. t. 168. A shrub (or 
tte y oung shoots more or less villous, with soft loose hairs, at length 
* Leaves scattered, numerous, usually spreading, from ovate-lanceo- 
