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Som PLATE CLXXV. 
MELALEUCA ERIC AFOLLA. 
Heath-leaved Melaleuca. 
CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. 
POLYADELPHIA POLYANDR IA. Threads in many fets. Many Chives. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
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Catyx. Perianthium turbinatum, g EmpaLemMent. Cup turban-fhaped, growing to 
tum, quinquefidum feu quinquedentatum. the feed-bud, five-cleft or five-toothed. 
Corotza. Petala quinque, rotundata, calycis Biossom. Five petals rounded, inferted into 
margini interior! inferta. the inner margin of the cup. 
Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, filiformia, in Cuives. Threads numerous, thread-fhaped, 
fafciculos quinque connata. Antherz in- united in five bundles. Tips incumbent. — 
cumbentes. Porntat. Seed-bud turban-fhaped, growin 
Pistirtum, Germen turbinatum, fundo calycis to the bottom of the cup. Shaft thread. 
adnatum. Stylus filiformis, erectus. Stigma fhaped, erect. Summit fimple. 
fimplex. SgEED-veEssEL. Capfule nearly globular, coated 
Pericarpium. Capfula fubglobofa, calycis ven- y the belly of the cup, the upper part 
tre corticata, fummitate nuda, trilocularis, naked, three-celled, partitions contrary. 
ntrariis. SeEeDs many, oblong, or rounded with angles, or 
Semina_ plurima, oblonga, feu rotundato-angu- winged, 
lata, feu alata. : — 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Melaleuca foliis. fparfis oppofitifve, linearibus, Melaleuca with fcattered or oppofite leaves, li- 
enerviis, fubrecurvis, muticis; floribus fef- near, without nerves, a little turned back 
filibus, apicem verfus ramulorum confertis, | and beardlefs; flowers grow clofe to the 
fpicatis. © 
ftem, crowded together near the end of the 
fmaller branches in fpikes. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Prop, one which is to be found at the bafe of each flower. 
2._A Bloffom, natural fize. 
3. The fame magnified. 
4. One of the five bundles of Chives, with its Petal, to which it is attached at the 
bafe, magnified. : 
5. The Cup, Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, natural fize, the fummit detached and 
magnified. 
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White Knights, near Reading, Berks, from a branch of which, obligingly communicated by his Lord- 
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It grows beft in a mixture of two thirds fand hi ed b 
ings made, frc : y peat, and one third loam; may be propagated by 
Op wy e, from the tender fhoots, in the month of March, and kept under a Hels, in the tan bed 
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This fpecies of Melaleuca and the Metrofideros Nod . 
or ca : ofa of Gaertner, 1ft Vol. de fruct. p. 172, t. 34 
stk Gee confider as the fame, though made by Dr. Smith, fee Linn. Tranf. Vol. III. p. 270 
ent parts of the counter. om tpecimens gathered at different times, differently dried, or from differ- 
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