Melaleuca.) XLVIII. MYRTACEA. 161 
aute or obtuse, under 2 in. long. Flowers (yellowish-white ?) rather small 
especially the males, the perfect ones fewer in the 
and often reduced to 5 or 6, the axis not growing out till after flowering, 
r lobes 
fom) 
scarious, broad, truncate and often confluent. Petals scarcely 1 line diameter, 
' 80 deciduous as rarely to be seen except in the youn tam 4 
. lines long, very irregularly united in bundles of about 7 to 11 ; anthers ovoid. 
— Orules not n merous, erect on a small placenta. Fruiting-calyxes usually 2 
r3 only together, very smooth, about 2 lines diameter. 
Fr 3 ia. Swan Riv Drummond, lst Coil. and n. 52, Preiss. n. 263. 
Var. bracteata, Bracts lar. 
» 4a > 
E K ger and more persistent. : bisulcata, F. Muell. Fragm. iii, 
II Murchison river, Oldfield. 
s. 
shortly united in bundles of 7 to 12. Ovules rather numerous i 
eltate placenta ; stigma small. Fruiting-calyxes 
smooth, about 2 lines diameter. 
‘Australi » Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 154, 158; Phillips Range, Maxwell. 
narrow and apparently persistent. Staminal 
he claws as long as the calyx-lobes, each with 
: Australia, . York district and Quangen Plains, Preiss, n. 2425 and 2426. The 
tie qa En seen (in Herb. Sonder) are very incomplete, but the species appears to 
het from M, incana or M. holosericea, both of which have white-tomentose foliage. 
Stairs VIT. PEUTAT &,— Leaves Opposite or alternate, very small, often 
oo nore or less peltately attached and closely appressed to the branch, 
"pper end Spreading. Flowers small, in dense heads or spikes. 
el idea, Benth. Glabrous. Leaves opposite, ovate-triangular 
3 Spreading, but thick and more or less peltately attached in 
of their broad dilated base, mostly 1 to 14 lines long. Flowers 
N ules few in each cell, e ect, Jlacenta ; stigma 
E ting-calyxes in globular clusters, each about 2 lines diameter. 
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