Myrtacea.'] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 1 89 
gent foliage. Young branches and leaves silky. Leave* rigid, spreading, 2 lines to * inch Ion-, extremely variable 
in shape, from broadly elliptical-ovate or orbicular, to narrow-lanceolate, always glabrous, concave, very acuminate 
Capsules half-exserted beyond the calyx. 
2. Leptospermum lanigerum (Smith in Linn. Trans, iii. 26.")) ; crectum, ramulis - 
suberectis obovato- v. lineari-huirruluti- abrupte ncuininalis utriinpu- v. >ul>t us ral\< ibus . . 
losisve. {Gunn, 289, 289? 810.) 
Var. a. pubescens ; foliis utrinque sericeis villosisve. — L. pubescent, WUld. Sp. I'', ii. 
.•', xv. 418. L. sericeum, A. Cunn. MSS. 
Var. /3. lanigera; foliis supra glaberrimis, calycibus vilIo>issimk— L. lain-. 
2. iii. 182 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. ii. 92; DC. Prodr. iii. 227. Phfladeiphus lanig, r, 
156. {Gunn, 681, 809.) 
Var. 7. grandifolia ; foliis majoribus supra nitidis subtus scriceo-pubescentibns.— L. grandifoliuni. 
Smith, Linn. Trans, vi. 299 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1810 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 701 ; DC. Prodr. 111. 
in Linnma, xv. 413. 
Hab. Abundant throughout the Island, in many soils and situations. — (Fl. all summer.) (/•. r.) 
(Colonial name, " Tea-tree.") 
Disteib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in Kngland.) 
if which 1 ai 
■< . short!} 
1 or on both - 
, soft, whin I 
e been used by tin earlv 
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3. Leptospermum flavescens (Smith, Linn. Trans, in. 102); crectum, ramulis sericeis glabratisvc 
foliis lineari- v. anguste oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis pungentibua ntrinqoe giaberamifl nitidis, calycibtn 
sericeis glabratisve.— Ait. Hort. Keu: ed. 2. iii. 181 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 227; feJ 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t, 2695. Melaleuca Thea, Wendl. Bert. limn. p. 21, t. 14. L. polygakfolium, Sal, 
Prodr. hi. L. porophyllum, Cav. Ic. iv. 17. t. 330./. 2. 
Hab. Abundant on banks of rivers; the only species found near Launceston, '. 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A shrub or small tree, 5-15 feet high. The longer, glabrous, shinii 
4. Leptospermum nitidum (Hook, til.); erectum, ramis gkbemmw, remain pubes< 
planis elliptico-oblongis oblongis Ianceolatisve pnngentww-uminatis 3-nenns utrin M ..e gi 
interdum ciliolatis, floribus magnis, calycibus scrims.— L. pflosom, Sciamer 
Hab. Rocky Cape; heathy plains between Alacquarrie Harbour and Lake St. Clair, Gunn.—{Y\. Dec.) 
Mr. Gunn considers this a very distinct spec' 
forms of L. 
n thai I cannot by words 
