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XX. B'jtankal CbaraElers of four New-Holland Plants, of the Natural 



Order of Myrti. 



By James Edward Smithy M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 



Read July 7, I8O1. 



Since the publication of a paper in the third volume of the Lin- 

 nean Society's TranfaiSlions, the aim of which was to fix the 

 botanical chaiafters of feveral genera and fpecies of the natural order 

 of Myrti, hitherto not well determined; I have become acquainted 

 with a few more of the fame tribe, four of which it is my delign to 

 defcribe at prefent. The number might appear too inconfiderable 

 to be the fubject of a paper, nor ihould I, fcarcely, have offered 

 them in this form to the Society, were it not as a kind of neceifary 

 fupplement to the former treatife; and had I not a few particular 

 obfervations to propofe refpefting one of the plants. 



3. * Leptospekmum grandfoUum, foliis lanceolatis mucronatis 

 fubquinquenervibus fubtus pubefcentibus, calycibus villofis : 

 dentibus mcmbranaceis coloratis. 



A fingle fpecimen of this new fpecies oi Leptofpermum, gathered 

 by Dr. VViiite in New South Wales, has been communicated to me 

 by A. B. Lambert, Efq. It is much larger than any other I have 

 feenofthe genus, efpecially the leaves, which are above an inch 

 long, and near a quarter of an inch broad. Their form is lanceolate, 

 tapering more towards the bafe than towards the extremity, and they 

 are tipped Avith a fmall prominent, fliarp point; their margin is en- 



Q q 2 tire, 



