160 MYRTACER. [Leptospermum. 
1. LEPTOSPERMUM, Forst. 
Shrubs or small trees, glabrous or silky-pubescent. Leaves 
small, alternate, entire. Flowers solitary or 2-3 together, axillary 
or at the ends of the branchlets, often polygamous. Calyx-tube 
campanulate or turbinate, adnate to the ovary below; lobes 5. 
Petals 5, spreading. Stamens numerous, free, in a single series ; 
anthers versatile. Ovary inferior or half-superior, enclosed in the 
calyx-tube, 5- or more-celled, rarely 3-4-celled; style filiform ; 
stigma capitate or peltate. Capsule woody or coriaceous, exceed- 
ing the calyx-tube or altogether included in it, opening loculicidally 
at the top. Seeds numerous in each cell, but most of them sterile, 
pendulous, linear or angular. 
A genus of about 28 species, almost wholly Australian; a few only in New 
Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Malay Archipelago. One of the New Zealand 
species is also found in Australia, the remaining two are endemic. 
Leaves pungent. Flowers 4-4in. diam., solitary. Calyx- 
lobes deciduous. Capsule half- exsertied 1. L. scoparium. 
Leaves not pungent. Flowers in. diam., usually fas- 
cicled. Calyx-lobes persistent. Capsule included in 
the calyx-tube fe ie .. 2. D. ericoides. 
Leaves not pungent, white with silky hairs. Flowers din. 
diam. Calyx-lobes persistent. Capsule deeply sunk 
within the calyx-tube oe af =f .. 38. DL. Sinclairu. 
1 L. scoparium, Forst. Char. Gen. 72, t. 36.—A shrub or small 
tree, extremely variable in size, usually 6-18 ft. high, but sometimes 
dwarfed to a foot or two, occasionally reaching 20-25 ft. with a 
trunk 12-18 in. diam. ; branches fastigiate or spreading ; branchlets 
and young leaves silky. Leaves 4-4in. long, variable in shape, 
linear or linear-lanceolate to broadly ovate, sessile, rigid, concave, 
acute and pungent-pointed, veinless, dotted, erect or spreading, 
rarely recurved. Flowers sessile, solitary, axillary or terminating 
the branchlets, +4in. diam. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate; lobes 
orbicular, deciduous. Petals orbicular, slightly clawed. Capsule 
woody, persistent, half sunk in the calyx-tube, which forms a rim 
round it, the free portion 5-valved.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 337; 
A. Cunn. Precur. n. 553; Raoul, Choix, 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
4el.i. 69; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 69; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 117; Students’ 
le LO. 
oe Var. linifolium, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 69.—Leaves narrow linear-lanceo- 
ate. 
Var. myrtifolium, Hook. f. l.c.— Leaves ovate, spreading or recurved. 
Var. parvum, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 158.—1-3 ft. high. Leaves 4in. long, 
ovate, spreading. Flowers smaller, 4—-}in. 
Var. prostratum, Hook. f. l.c.—Small, often prostrate, branches ascending 
at the tips. Leaves ovate or almost orbicular, recurved. A mountain form. 
Norru anp SourH Isnanps, Stewart IsLanp, CHATHAM IsLANDS: Abund 
ant throughout, ascending to 3500 ft. Manuka ; Tea-tree. October—April. 
Also plentiful in Australia and Tasmania. 
