Melaleuca. ] XLVIII. MYRTACER: 157 
Very numerous in each cell, and sometimes very few, erect on a small pla- 
centa—DC. Prod. iii. 913; Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 140; M. spinosa, Lindl. 
Swan Riv. App. 8; Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 140. 
. W. Australia, King George's Sound, R. Brown and others, and thence to Swan 
River, Drummond, lst Coll., 3rd Coll. n. 44; Preiss, n. 280, 981, 282, 283, and others, 
and eastward to West Mount Barren, Maxwell, Vasse and Tone rivers, Oldfield. The 
spinesceut branches are a very uncertain character, both in the Swan River and in the King 
George’s Sound specimens. 
. 18. M. striata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 26. £. 165. A tall and bushy 
or low and straggling shrub, the young shoots silky, at length glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolate or linear, acute and often pungent-pointed, flat, 
3- or 5-nerved, sometimes all under 3 in. lone and very thick and rigid, 
Sometimes narrower and above in. Flowers pink (or sometimes white P, 
m dense oblong or cylindrical terminal spikes, the axis not growing out 
Yay numerous, on a broad shortly bifid placenta. Fruiting spikes cylindrical, 
very dense, rarely above 1 in. long, the calyxes 13 to 2 lines long.—DC. 
Prod. iii. 212 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3210. 
i. Australia, King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Labillardiore, R. Brown, 
Bay ommend, Srd Coll. n. 53, and others, and eastward to Young river, and Orleans 
Kë arwell. This species sometimes comes near to M. pentagona, but differs in its ob- 
€ or cylindrical spikes, 
73. M. polygaloides, Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 142. Glabrous or the 
Young shoots pubescent or silky. Leaves scattered or in whorls of 3, those 
D the main ranches oblong or lanceolate, aute, flat, 1- or 3-nerved, and 
Sw EU ong, on the smaller branches linear or linear-lanceolate, about + 
-m long, or all narrow and 4 to 4 in., flat or concave and almost nerveless. 
and calyxes pubescent, Bracts often persistent. Calyx-tube campanulate, 
mei line diameter; lobes short, obtuse. Petals about } line diameter. 
hot ens not above 2 lines long, shortly united in bundles of 7 to 11. Ovules 
Be, fous, erect on a small placenta; style long, with a small stigma. 
` Ze spikes dense, cylindrical, 3 to 1 in. long, but not seen quite ripe. 
Tulga, aostralia, Swan River, Col/ie, Drummond, lsi Coil. and 3rd Coll. n. 45; 
With eit, Ole eld. Preiss’s specimens in bud only, n. 327, certainly are conspecific 
dole demi " but the fruiting oues, n. 328, though in a very imperfect. state, appear 
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eading, more or less hoary-tomentose or pubescent. 
‘ong, l- or 3-nerved, becoming sometimes glabrous with 
a ely hoary, especially underneath. Flowers rather small, yel- . 
"Wie, m : 
dense terminal ovoid or oblong spikes, the axis rarely grow- 
