130 flora OP Tasmania. [Myrtacea. 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. 
A very variable shrub, according to G-unn ; forming a small scrubby bush near the sea and on poor sandy soil, 
and a fine bushy shrub, 6 feet high, on richer soil in the interior. — Everywhere perfectly glabrous. Branches slen- 
der, often spreading. Leaves opposite, rarely ternate, small, very variable in size, breadth, and amount of concavity, 
3-4 lines long, sessile, obovate, blunt, appressed to the branch, which they partly embrace, at other times 
flatter, three-nerved on the back, shorter and spreading. Flowers in small heads, terminal or lateral, of a fine 
purple colour. 
Obs. Melaleuca fascicularis, Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 29, 170 {Astartea fascicularis, DC. Prodr. iii. 210), stated 
by Labilkudiae to have been found in Tasmania, is not so, but a native of South-western Australia. 
Gen. IV. KUNZEA, Beichb. 
Mores plerumque pedicellate bibracteolati. Calycis tubus campanulatus, inferne cum ovario connatus ; 
limbus 5-fidus. Petala 5, annulo calycino inserta. Stamina 20-100 ; filamenta libera, elongata. Ovarium 
^-inferum, 2-3-loculare, loculis multiovulatis. Capsula intra calycis tubum coriaceum inclusa, apice locu- 
licide dehiscens. Semina plurima. — Frutices j foliis alteram ; floribus axillaribus terminalibusgue. 
A small Australian genus, containing about fifteen species. — Shrubs with alternate, exstipulate leaves. Mowers 
1, axillary or terminal, often panicled or subcapitate. Ca/^-tube bell-shaped, with a five-lobed limb. 
Stamens placed on a ring in the mouth of the calyx, very numerous ; filaments free. Ovary attached by its lower 
part only to the calyx, two- or three-celled ; cells many-ovuled. Capsule enclosed within the coriaceous tube of the 
calyx, with a loculicidal dehiscence. (Name in honour of Gustav Kunze, a German cryptogamic botanist.) 
1. Kunzea corifolia (Reichb. Consp. Beg. Veg. 175) ; glaberrima v. ramulis puberulis, foliis alternis 
fasciculatis imbricatisve linearibus subacutis strictis recurvisve, floribus axillaribus, calycibus glabriusculis 
lobis lanceolatis, stigmate capitato, capsula 3-loculari. — Schauer in Plant. Preiss. i. 124. Metrosideros co- 
rifolia, Vent. Malm. t. 46 j Be Cand. Prodr. iii. 225. Leptospermum ambiguum, Smith, Exot. Pot. t. 59. 
Hab. Gun-carriage Island, and on granite hills in Flinders' Island, Backhouse, Gunn. — (Fl. Nov., 
Dec.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A shrub 9-12 feet high. — Branches glabrous, the ultimate often pubescent. Leaves imbricate or fascicled, on 
short, lateral branches, linear or linear-lanceolate, sharp or blunt, nerveless, i--§- inch long. Flowers numerous in 
the axils of the upper leaves along the lateral branches, hence often appearing to form elongated, interrupted spikes. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx somewhat pilose, its lobes spreading, lanceolate. Petals small, white or yellowish. 
Gen. Y. CALLISTEMON, Br. 
Flores sessiles, spicati. Calycis tubus hemisphserieus, cum ovario connatus, limbo 5-lobo. Petala 
5. Stamina plurima ; filamenta libera, elongata. Ovarium adnatum, 3-5-loculare. Capsula calycis tubo 
lignoso cum ramo connato inclusa, apice 3-5-fariam dehiscens. — Frutices ; foliis exstipulatis, alternis. 
The species of this genus are confined to Australia and Tasmania ; about fifteen are known. It is nearly 
allied to Melaleuca in the adnate ovary and sessile calyx, which becomes indurated and connate with the branch, 
but differs in the free filaments. The inflorescence forms spikes in the middle of the branches, and in young 
branches of some species the flowers may be detected immersed in the wood of the branch for many months before 
they burst through. (Name from koAAicttos, most beautiful, and o-r>j/iwv, a stamen.) 
