70 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Myrtacee. 
Var. 8. prostratum; caule prostrato, ramulis ascendentibus, foliis late ovatis orbiculatisve squarroso- 
recurvis. 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands. Fl. November. Var. 8, on the mountains (stunted). Nat. 
names, “ Kahi katoa” and “Manuka.” (Cultivated in England.) 
A most common large shrub or small tree, with erect trunk (prostrate in the mountains), of very hard wood 
and fastigiate branches, clothed with white flowers for two months. Branchlets and young leaves silky. Leaves 
very variable in shape, patent or recurved, 2 lines to 3 inch long, varying from linear-lanceolate in the largest states, 
to orbicular in the stunted, sessile, always acuminate and pungent, rigid, concave, veinless, dotted. Flowers very 
variable in size (4-5 inch), sessile, solitary, axillary or on terminal short branches. Calyx short, broadly turbinate, 
smooth, with five orbicular, deciduous lobes. Petals orbicular, clawed, crumpled. Stamens numerous. Fruit a 
woody, persistent, broadly turbinate capsule, half-sunk in the calyx-tube, which encircles it with a thick ring, and 
above which the five valves are free, and together form a hemispherical crown.—The wood is hard and good, 
though small; the leaves have been used as tea in Australia and Tasmania, where the plant is very abundant and 
equally variable. 
2. Leptospermum ericoides, A. Rich.; arbuscula glaberrima v. sericeo-pubescens, erecta, ramulis vir- 
gatis angulatis, foliis (2-4 lin. longis) fasciculatis breve petiolatis linearibus v. anguste lineari-spathulatis 
acutis coriaceis enerviis concavis punctatis, floribus aggregatis axillaribus pedicellatis, calyce turbinato pedi- 
celloque pubescentibus v. glabris lobis ovatis persistentibus, capsulis turbinatis calycis tubo immersis valvis 
apice vix liberis. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; common. Fl. September to December. Nat. name, “ Rawiri,” 
Northern Island, Cunn.; “ Manouea," Middle Island, D’ Urville. 
A scarcely less common plant than the former, attaining a greater size (20 feet), and readily distinguished by 
its smooth twiggy branches, narrower, less coriaceous, acute (not pungent), uniformly narrower, suberect leaves, 
which grow in bundles (sometimes curved outwards), and more especially by the pedicellate small flowers, and 
fruit immersed in the tube of the calyx. 
Gen. TII. MYRTUS, Z. 
Calycis tabus globosus, limbo 4—5-lobo. Petala 4-5. Stamina perplurima, petalis longiora. Bacca 
globosa, calycis lobis coronata, 2-3-locularis. Semina pauca v. plurima, reniformia v. angulata; testa 
ossea; embryone tereti, curvato; cotyledonibus parvis, brevibus. 
Aromatic shrubs or trees, with opposite dotted leaves, axillary peduncled flowers, and globose-berried fruit. 
Calyx tube globose; limb four- to five-lobed. Petals four to five. Stamens very numerous, exserted. Berry two- 
to three-celled, globose, crowned with the calyx-limb; seeds few or many in each cell, reniform or angled, with a 
bony testa and long terete curved embryo, with small cotyledons.—This genus, though so well known as including the 
European Myrtle, is not a large or common one; species are found in the Northern temperate regions, in the tro- 
pical mountains of South America, in India, and in the temperate regions of Chili and New Zealand, extending to 
Cape Horn in the New World and Akaroa in New Zealand. (Name, pupros, in Greek.) 
1. Myrtus bullata, Banks et Sol. ; arbuscula, ramulis pedunculisque petiolis costaque folii pubescen- 
tibus, foliis petiolatis late elliptico- v. rotundato-ovatis bullatis subtus discoloribus pedunculis folio brevi- 
oribus v. aequilongis 1-2-floris, floribus 4-meris, bacca verrucosa 2-loculari oligosperma. Banks et Sol. le. 
et MSS. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 551. 
Has. Northern Island; frequent, Banks and Solander, ete. Fl. December. Nat. name, “ Rama- 
Rama,” Cunn. (Cultivated in England.) 
An erect shrub or small tree, 10-15 feet. Branches suberect ; upper pubescent, as are the petioles; midrib of the 
