rf the Natural Order of Mytti, 27*- 



* « FoUis alternis. 



9. M. ctliata, foliis fparfis fub-oppofitis ellipticis obtufis corla* 

 ceis bafi lubciliatis, corymbis terminalibus pilofis. 

 Melaleuca ciliata. Forjl. Prod. 38. 

 Leptofmerraum ciliatum. Fotjl, Gen. N. 3. 



Gathered by Meflrs. Foifter in New South Wales ? (Novcr Gale-- 

 donia). Not yet introduced into the Englifh gardens. 



The leaves are remarkably rigid, thick, and concave, their mar- 

 gin reflexed, like thofe oi Gelajlrus luc'tdus, but lefs ihining; whitiQi, 

 and reticulated with tranfverfe veins beneath, and marked with a 

 ftraight central nerve. It is extraordinary that Dr. Forfter cha- 

 rafterizes them, as without nerve or veins. Thofe. parts may per-- 

 haps be lefs vifible in recent fpecimens. The bafe of moft of the 

 leaves is ciliated with long fpreading hairs, like thofe on the young 

 branches, flower-ftalks, calyx, and even petals. The flowers are 

 large, handfome, deep-red, but few together, in a terminal corymbus 

 or. umbel. Fruit large, deprefled, proje6ling in three lobes much 

 above the rim of the calyx. 



roc M. linearis, foliis fparfis linearibus canaliculatis acutis ri- ■ 

 gentibus, floribus lateralibus confcrtisfeflTilibus. 

 Melaleuca linearis.. Schroder Serf. Hanmveran. 19.,/. II.- 



This is- not uncommon in the Englilh colleftionsi but has not 

 yet flowered here, though it has at Hdnover. The Idaves are very 

 long, narrow, fomewhat pungent, rigid, and harfh. There is a 

 variety with femicylindrical leaves, more rough on the Ipack than 

 the more common kind. The flowers furround the branches in a 



long 



