of the Natural Order ofMyrti. 277 



cxpofure to the air. I have confulted his fpecimens, and find no 

 reafon to doubt their being the fame as mine. 



7. M. armnlarU^ foHis fparfis linearibus mucronatis apice re- 



curvis, floribus lateralibus, filamentis longiffimis linearibus 

 apice radiato-multifidis. 

 . Metrofideros armillaris. Gcertn. Sent. v. i. 171. /, 34./ 5. 



This has much the habit of a Dlofina, in the leaves efpecially, 

 which, in a garden fpecimen with which I was favoured from Mr. 

 Robeitfon's at Stockwell, are very diflindlly marked with a row of 

 refinous fpots on each fide the mid-rib at the back, but thefe are 

 Icfs vifible in the wild plant. The flowers are white, cluttered 

 about the lower part of the branches, in the form of a long fpike. 

 The footftalk or claw of the united filaments is very long before it 

 branches off, even thrice the length of the petals. 



8. M. getiijlifoliay foliis fparfis lanceolatis mucronatis trinerviis 



multipunftatis, ramulis floi^iferis terminalibus laxis, fila- 

 mentis apice radiato-multifidis. 



Sent from Port Jackfon by Mr. David Burton. It is in fome 

 refpecls like M. nodofa^ but the leaves are lanceolate rather than 

 linear, not above half fo long as in that fpecies, nor fo rigid and 

 pungent. The branches terminate in loofe fpikeSj.from the top of 

 which the branch is at length continued, as in the other fpecies. 

 The flowers are feflile, in alternate pairs, white. Claw of the 

 ftamina twice as long as the petals before the filaments branch off. 



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