Melaleuca.) XLVIIT. MYRTACEX: - 159 
Var. obtusifolia. Leaves more erowded, SCH obtuse. Flowers inani yellow, in very: 
dense and oblong spikes. Drummond, 5th Coll . 148; West Mount Barren, Marwell. 
The species often approaches M. pentagona, o on ch one hand, or M. nodosa on the other. 
. 83. M. ericifolia, Sw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 276. and Exot. Bot. t. 
34. A shrub or tree, attaining sometimes a considerable height, usually 
glabrous and often glaucous, with virgate branchlets. Leaves scattered, nu- 
merous, often recurved, nar ow-linear, semiterete or convex underneath, 
"e : ; 
a 
the axis soon growing out into a leafy branch, the rhachis reet yX 
glabrous. or nearly so, short, broad, with short, broa tuse, herbaceous 
lobes, Petals E ] line long. Staminal bundles 3 "S 4 lines long, the 
H nodosa, Sieb. Pl. Exs. not of Sm.; M. Gunniana, Schau. in Walp. Rep. 
ii 928; A FERI F. Muell. ; P M in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 120 (from 
the character r given). 
1 Faiy Wales. Port Jackson to the Be ue a. Moana R. Brown, Sieber, n. 318, and. 
= j Lord Howe’s Island, rare, on rocks fi ng the sea, Milne. 
. . toria. On the Yarra eh Goulburn rivers and EN mountains, F. Mueller. 
I a. Port Dalry and islands of Bas raits, R. Brown. Abundant, 
$ "am its, J. DE rond i in v forte parts of the Sch the Swamp Tea-tree of 
s red. Stamens usuall erubescens, Otto; 
De. CS 87, die a DC. Prod. i. 214, M. dere Sege etn according to 
¢—Port Jackson, Pa aramatta, Wools, 
* Staminal bundles 2 to 3 lines long, the claws exceeding the petals, 
S rules ie to ll or rather more filaments at the end; anthers small. 
d er humerous, on-a small peltate placenta. Fruiting spikes dcm 
ow b uk or interrupted, the calyxes about 1} lines diameter.— 
.i 142; M. Lehmanni, Schau. Le 
be SE E E du n River; Breed, Vie Coll; ond n. 1004.Pr eiss, n. 291, 292. 
impios Bay, lens rather broader. Flowers larger.—Swan River, o gory, 
"d D ma above ^. -46, closely resembles this species, but the spikes are all 
ove . lon 
ee scattered, spreading or recurved, rather 
al an a of the same size, ic pe or rather thick, obtuse; 
