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the petals, in one or more rows, the filaments free and stiff. Ovary 
adnate or semi-adnate, enclosed in the calyx-tube, 3-celled. Style fili- 
form; stigma minute, truncate. a es numerous in each cell, horizon 
or ascending. apsule more or less adnate, loculicidal in its upper 
porti eds numerous, see fusiform or cuneate, with a thin testa. 
Flowers in compound terminal cymes, rarely axillary, with caducous 
seas 
us of about 18 species, mostly belonging to the Pacific islands, aad one each 
ite meer ¢ tropical Australia, the Indian Archipelago and South Africa 
Leaves on short petioles of less than 6°: 
Leaves faintly nerved; capsule almost free 1. M. polymorpha. 
Leaves rugose and impressed above, the strong nerves “ridged 
below; capsule ras Pe near the apex 2. M. rugos 
Leaves on ee petioles —2' ; 3. M. Picea 
1. M. SOI isi Bot. ae Freye 182, tab. 108, 109. — 
10—35 ft. in height, sometimes shrubby, with angular or terete Le 
tomentose or glabrate. Bracts of leaf-buds short, scarlet, early deciduous, 
Leaves opposite, on short petioles, lanceolate, oblong, ovate, obovate or 
orbicular, at the base acute, rounded or cordate, glabrous or tomentose 
underneath, with faint nerves. Flowers in terminal cymose corymbs, 
pedicellate or subsessile, 3 on a branchlet or peduncle, red, rarely yellow. 
Bractlets 11/2“, caducous. Calyx turbinate, 1'/:—2'/2‘’, glabrous or tomen- 
tose, with deltoid or rounded lobes. Petals 1 /2—3“, oblong or obovate. 
Capsule semi-adnate, at last almost free, 3-lobed, 3-valved, glabrous or 
tomentose. Seeds linear, fusiform. 
e marginal vein generally commences with the second pair of nerves. — One of 
the 3 divisions “ yak ose corymb may become ana e into a foliose branch 
if with a lateral ma ise middle one ap ; lat oth hati the axis, of one or two of 
the divisions sy yee of both lateral ones) will sometimes continue as a foliose branch, 
thus giving the appearance of a bottle-brush to the flowering portion, as in Melaleuca. 
M. lutea, Gray, Bot. U. S. E. E. p. 560, pl. 69. — Includes the extra- 
Hawaiian M. collina, Gray, 1. ¢. 558, pl. 68, M. villosa, Sm., M. specta- 
bilis, Gaertn., M. diffusa, H. & A., Leptospermum collinum, J. R. Forst., 
Melaleuca neeliinale G, Forst 
The most seg! prevailing treo tree on all Islands between 1500 and 6000 ft., usually 
casei Nat. n «Ohia lehua>, poe simply «Lehua»; Vitian: «Vuga»; Tahitian : 
Tata», "The scoot | is very hard, furni ui buil 
ane fos we of cat old idols were made of it. — Occurs also on the Marquesas, Society, 
oa, Viti and Islands. 
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Ha “f spa grmeanasts myse self from an examination in hb. Gra that forms of 
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species. According to See 
round leaves, are represented in the Society Islands. The difference between subsessile 
