Beaufortia.) . XLVIII. MYRTACER. 169 
lat, exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens pale pink, 3 to 4 lines long, in 
| undles of 9 to 15, the claw shorter than the filaments; outer valve of each 
anther-cell Zei and orbicular. vary not seen, the flowers examined all 
| Fruiting-calyxes usually few in the head or occasionally solitary, 
. ovoid, thick, smooth, attaining 3 lines diameter or even more. Seeds (not 
. Seen quite ripe) one large perfect one in each cell with 2 small hard erect 
sterile ones under it.— Schau . in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 19 (by misprint 15). 
. ,W. Australia. Sands of Sharks’ Bay, Baudin’ s Expedition, Denham ; Dirk Hartog's 
Island, A. Cunningham, Miine. 
Melaleuca a sprengelioides, DC. Prod. iii. 215 m. Myrt. t. 3, appears to me to be 
| relerable rather to this plant than to the Regelia Tea 
| 
. , M. B. ele egans, Schau. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xxi. 20, and in Pl. Preiss 
E BO, A rigid bushy shrub, weg É glabrous except the sorsien. 
Leaves opposite, erect, recurved at the end, ovate obovate or broadly oblong, 
acute or rather obtuse, concave, rigid, 3-nerved, 1} to 3 lines long. Flowers 
ovule in each cell and 2 minute rudimentary ones under it, sometimes quite 
E Md 3h Fruiting-calyxes small in dense ovoid or cylindrical spikes of about 
N, Australia. N.W. Cape, Mar 
I Preiss, n, Se Swan River, eg lst Coll., 2nd Coll. n. 62; Granger plain, 
Pronnon Calyx. ES short.—B. m A a, Tore, in Bull. Mosc. 1849. ii. 24 ; 
cimen from ces ted — l. n. 64; Point hs. Dn also the above-mention e dap 
and 
the small variety, 
ape. 
and the pne again approaches in many respects the B. om bay 
: 2. B. micrantha, Schau. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xxi. 22, and in Pl. 
E L^ L151. A s mall bic Kee peis the branches often woolly- 
eet JC but concealed b ore glabrous foliage. Leaves opposite, 
: , decussate sE: Sec on the smaller branches, more dis- 
Bin. the larger ones, ovate-triangular, rather obtuse, thick, keeled, 4 to L 
the — by the broad base, but not really peltate. Flowers small, 
es in 
