156 g XLVIII. MYRTACER, [ Melaleuca. 
late to almost linear, iret or acuminate, flat or enam distinetly 3-nerved, 
mostly about 4 in. an ely $ in. long. Flowers rather small, reddish- 
purple white or selloi in small globular bein) heads, the axis nof 
growing out until after flowering, the rhachis and calyxes villous, 
acuminate, deciduous, or a few external ones more persistent. Calyx-tube — 
ovoid, about 1 line long; lobes much shorter, very obtuse. Petals under 1 
line long. Stamens about 3 lines long, very shortly united in bundles of 5 to 
Ovules rather numerous in each cell, erect on a small placenta. Fruiting — 
calyxes often considerably enlarged, more or less urceolate, in a « ioven head. — 
St), m ei iii. 213; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 128 ; Bot. Reg. t. 477; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t 
N. s. pom Near Appin, Backhous 
D: cos In the ss and on the Eo, ~ Mueller ; 
Tas Huo and Port D yit. Brown; very common in peaty sol — 
in many y paris of the colony, ascending to 4 J. D. ; 
S. Australia. nt Gambier, at K SN Een F. Mueller. 
o R. Br. in dit. Hort. Kew. ed. iv. 416. A bushy 
on —DC. feed, i ii. 215 ; Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 144 ; M. He 2 
Schau. l. c. ; de Saa Turez. in Bull, Mose. 1847, i. 165. | 
soe ege" pnd vp a D g Geor St Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown a T 
: ingham, Bax: Be r 3rd Coll. Preiss, n. D 
988, Oldfield, aswel ummond, 3rd Coll. n. 46, 5th Coll. n. 149, reiss. 
n some garden van den they are lon r an acu In Prei pecimens AN 1 
propingua they are rather smaller but not edd different. To Drammen nd’s 5th Coll 
n. 167, they are all narrow and re gularly in 6 rows, in n. 166 of the same Coll. all very 
spreading, rigid, and squarrose, almost like those of M. Zeien 
and often spin escent. aves scattere d, rom linear-lanceolate to p 
elliptical or althost Mise rigid usually acute, narrowed at the base, flat, d 
or 5-nerved, 4 to $i Owers ye ellowish-white; ift re term! 
globular heads, the axis fs? growing out until after ege the rhachis 
usually tom se or woolly. , Bracts de "emis Main pu 
u 
. or less disti Ae borm. in the wie Reali we in the centre. 
minal bundles 3 to 4 lines long, the claws as lon ong as or exceeding 
petals, with 5 to 9 filaments at the end; anthers very small. Ovules 
