2y6 Dr. SiMith'j Botanical Charadiers offotne Plants 



gether the habit of ayZy^/W/^. The leaves are thick-fet, twifted, 

 harlh, pungent and ftriated, exaftly as in feveral of that genus^ 

 and very (lightly aromatic, fo that it could hardly be taken for one 

 of the Myrti, except by the fruftification. — The flowers are white, 

 furrounding the lower part of the youngefl: branches in very (hort 

 clufters. Calyx downy, with ercd, rigid, fpinous, ftriated, perma- 

 nent teeth. Petals fmooth, membranous. Stamina twice as long 

 as the calyx. 



5. M. ericiJoUa, foliis fparfis oppofitifve linearibus enerviis fub- 



recurvis muticis, floribus lateralibus apicem verfus ramu- 

 lorum confertis. 



The dried leaves of this fpecies taftc flrongly of coriander feeds. I 

 have not feen it growing. Its flowers are white, growing in {hort 

 clufters round the branches,' as in the following, but not quite fo 

 near the top. Its leaves diff^er widely from that fpecies, being much 

 finaller, not pungent nor rigid, but a little recurved. The young 

 bark is of a filvery white. I have not feen the fruit. 



6. M. nodofa, foliis fparfis linearibus mucronato-pungentibus 



re6lis, floribus apicem verfus ramulorum glomeratis. 

 Metrofideros nodofa. Gartn. Sem. v. i. 172. /. 34.7^ 6. 



The leaves are numerous, fcarcely an inch long, very narrow, 

 though broader than thofe of M. ericifolia, fliff, and fharp pointed. 

 Flowers fmall, whitifh, cluftered round the tops of the youngeft 

 branches, fo as to appear like little capitula ; but after flowering the 

 branch is protruded beyond them, and the ripening capfules remain 

 inverting it in an annular manner. The figure of Gaertner repre- 

 fents them in their mofl: advanced ftate, apparently bleached by 



expofure 



