| PLATE. Gc. ; 
MELALEUCA HYPERICIFOLIA. 
> 3 St. John’s-wort-leaved Melaleuca. 
CLASS XVIII. ORDER IV. 
POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in manySets. Many Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 3 5 
Caxyx quinquefidus, femifuperus. Petalaquin- || Cup five-cleft, half above. Petals five. Threads 
“ que. Filamenta mulia, longiffima, connata numerous, very long, united into five bodies. 
in quinque corpora. Pifti!lam unum, Cap- | Pointal one. 
_ fala trilocularis. * Sie 
Capfule three-celled. 
See MELALEUCA ERICHFOLIA, PI, CLKXV. Vol. IIT. 
“Eh os SPECIFIC CHARACTAk. 3 
~ Melaleuca foliis oppofitis, eliptico-oblongis, uni- 4. Melaleuca with oppofite leaves, eliptic-oblong, 
: nerviis; floribus confertis; filamentis lon- | one-nerved ; flowers cluftered; threads very 
giflimis, linearibus, apice radiato-multifidis, long, linear, rayed and many-cleft at the top. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A flower, natural fize. ~ 
2. One of the five bundles of Chives, with its petal, to which it is attached at the bafe, 
magnified : 
3. The cup, feed-bud, thaft and fummit, natural fize, the fummit detached and mag- 
ified, 
Agour the year 1792 this plant was firft raifed from feeds, by the late Mr. William Malcolm, 
Nurferyman, at Stockwell, Surry ; and was, from the very great refemblance it bears to the St. John’s- 
worts, fo denominated, until it flowered. It has now become one of the commoneft, of what are 
wood, in a horizontal direétion, is common to many other fpecies of the Genus. It grows to the height 
_ of four or five feet, very erect in every part; is eafily increafed by cuttings, and thrives beft in peat 
earth. Although it is faid to grow in {wampy grounds in New South Wales, fee Linnean Tranfactions, 
Vol. III. p. 279, neverthelefs, with us, a dry, or damp fituation in the green-houfe, appears equally 
