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14 in. wide, obscurely 1- or 3-nerved: flowers pink or rose-color, in dense 

 terminal heads 1 in. or more in diameter, the axis seldom growing out 

 before flowering is over: claw of the stamens short: capsules smooth, 

 congested in a globose or ovoid mass. Illustration: PI. 5, fig. 4. 



Suitable for parks and other large grounds. A very rapid 

 grower and makes a fair shade, but the capsules, which form 

 knot-like excrescences on the exposed branches, are objectionable. 



14. M. nodosa Sm. 



A tall nearly glabrous shrub: leaves linear or subulate, rigid, straight 

 and rigidly sharp-pointed, % to % or 1 in. long: flowers pale yellow, in 

 numerous dense globular clusters which are scarcely y 2 in. in diameter, 

 the axis not growing out until after flowering: capsules in small compact 

 heads scarcely more than }4 in. across. Illustrations: PI. 5, fig. 2; Cav. 

 Icon., pi. 334; Bot. Cook's First Voy., pi. 115. 



Rare in cultivation. Grown in Golden Gate Park. 



15. M, incana E. Br. 



A tall shrub, the young twigs and flowering branches ashy with a fine 

 close pubescence: leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, spreading, 



linear to lanceolate, acute, ^4 to % in. long, 

 hoary with white hairs at least when young, 

 mostly 1-nerved: flowers yellowish white, in 

 dense terminal ovoid or oblong spikes about 

 % in. wide, the axis rarely growing out until 

 after flowering: stamens shortly united in 

 bundles of 3 to 9: capsules in dense cylin- 

 drical spikes % to 1 in. long. Illustrations: 

 Fig. 14; Bot. Eeg., pi. 410. 



Reported as growing in Golden 

 Gate Park. A beautiful specimen 

 with pendant twigs may be seen in 

 the "Arizona Garden," on the Hotel 

 Fig. 14. Melaleuca incana. del Monte grounds, Monterey. 



16. M. micromeria Schau. 



A tall shrub with many short slender branches, covered by a short 

 close white tomentum which is often concealed by the minute foliage: 

 leaves exceedingly minute, mostly in whorls of 3, closely appressed to 

 the stem, ovate, scale-like: flowers in small globular heads about % in. 

 in diameter: capsules in dense clusters less than % in. across. 



Once grown at Santa Barbara by Dr. Franceschi but prob- 

 ably no longer in cultivation in California. 



