140 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Myrtacea. 
minate it satisfactorily from its two predecessors : the leaves are in all my specimens cither perfectly glabrous and 
shining, or sometimes slightly ciliate at the edges ; they vary from elliptic-oblong to narrow obovate-lanceolate, and 
are shortly mucronate, pungent, and three-nerved. The flowers are larger than in L. flavescem, the coriaceous 
bracts more persistent, and the calyces more silky. It appears to be extremely variable in stature ; Gunn's early 
notes describe it as never exceeding 3 feet or so in height, both at Rocky Cape and on the heaths between Lake 
St. Clair and Mac i afti rwarda found 11 in the latfa r country (at Detention Comer), 12 feet 
high, and nearer Macquarrie Harbour, 60-80 feet high, with a trunk almost ten feet in girth at three feet from 
the ground. Such variations are by no means uncommon with tffrn< ous plants in all parts of the world, and prove 
of how little value habit is in discriminating species. This is possibly Schauer's L. glaucescens (see L. myrt\fbUum), 
but the leaves are not at all glaucous, and the calyx-lobes are not persistent ; it is more likely to be his L. pilosum, 
though the leaves of my specimens are uniformly glabrous. 
5. Leptospermum rupestre (Hook. fil. Ic. PI. t. 308) ; humile, procumbens v. prostratum, ramis 
erectis glaberrimis, ramulis puberulis, foliis parvis obovato-ellipticis spathulatisve obtusis enerviis crasse 
oonace&Sj lloribus parvis calycibus subsericeis. [Gunn, 295.) (Tab. XXX.) 
Hab. Common on the tops of all the mountains, elev. 3-5000 feet, Frazer, Lawrence, Gunn. — (Fl. 
Jan.) (*.*.) 
A small species (which I suspect will prove to be an alpine state of L. myrtifolium), usually growing prostrate 
and forming dark green masses, but occasionally erect, with more slender branches.— Everywhere glabrous, except 
the pubescent branchlets. Leaves small, crowded, elbptic-obovate or spathulate, blunt, very coriaceous, nerveless, 
rather concave. Flowers smaller than in any other Tasmanian species. Calyx silky. — Plate XXX. Fig. 1, leaf ; 
2, flower; 3, the same, with petals and stamens removed; 4, transverse section of ovary ; 5, capsule; 6, vertical 
section of ditto ; 7, unripe, and 8, ripe seeds -.—all magnified. 
6. Leptospermum myrtifolium (Sieb. PL Exsicc. 314) ; erectum, glaberrimum v. puberulum, 
foliis petiolulatis obovato-lanceolatis oblongis subspathulatisve apice rotundatis obtusis v. breviter acumi- 
natis plains coriaceis enerviis 3-nerviisve, floribus mediocribus, calycibus sericeis, capsulis late obconicis 
calyce inclusis.— DC. Prodr. iii. 228. L. parvifolium, Smith, Linn. Trans, iii. 263; DC. I.e. iii. 228. 
L. glaucescens, Schauer? in Linnaa, xv. 421. L. grandiflorum, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 514? Eriostemon? 
trinerve, Hook. Bot. Journ. i. 254. {Gunn, 679, 812.) 
Hab. Northern parts of the Island, as at Woolnorth and Rocky Cape, on sand-hills near the sea, 
Frazer, Lawrence, Gunn. — (Fl. Nov.-Feb.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated in England.) 
A shrub, 2-7 feet high, usually quite glabrous, except the buds and calyx, which, as well as the foliage, are 
sometimes slightly pubescent, and, as Gunn remarks, give a glaucous hue to certain states of it, that caused him 
to doubt whether there might not be two species. This induces me to quote Schauer's L. glaucescens, though he 
describes the calyx-lobes as persistent.— Branches often very slender, terminal ones sometimes like whipcord, 
and quite glabrous. Leaves large or small, obovate, spathulate, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, apex blunt, rounded', 
or shortly acuminate, not shining as in L. rupestre, nerveless or three-nerved. Flowers usually small in the Tasma- 
nian state, larger in the Australian; capsule more sunk in the calyx than in the preceding species.-Gunn observes 
that it flowers later than any of its congeners. 
Not*. I^toyerwrn sericeum (Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. 9. t. 147) is, according to Schauer (Plant. Preiss. i. 121), 
a native of S and not of Tasmania. 
Gen. VII. FABRICIA, Gartn. 
Omnia Leptospermi, sed capsula multilocularis et semina pauca. 
