PLATE CLXX V. 



MELALEUCA ERIC^FOLIA. 



Heath-leaved Melaleuca. 



CLASS XVIII. ORDER IV. 

 POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in many fets. ManyChivcs. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Periaiilhuim turbinatum, germini adna- 



tum, quinquefidum leu quinquedentatum. 

 Corolla. Petala qiiinqiie, rotundata, calycis 



margini interiori inl'erta. 

 Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, liliformia, in 



falciculos quinque connata. Anthera; in- 



cumbentes. 

 PisTiLLUM. Germen turbinatum, fundo calycis 



adnatum. Stylus tiliformis, eredus. Stigma 



fimplex. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula fubglobofa, calycis ven- 

 tre corticata, lumraitate nuda, trilocularis, 



diUepimentis contrariis. 

 Semina plurima, oblonga, feu rotundato-angu- 



lata^ feu alata. 



SPECIFIC 

 Melaleuca foliis fparfis oppofitifve, linearibus, 



enerviis, lubrecurvis, muticis ; floribus I'el- 



(ilibus, apicem verfus ramulorum confertis, 



fpicatis. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalemen't. Cup turban-fliaped, growing to 

 the feed-bud, fi\e-cleft or five-toothed. 



Blossom. Five petals rounded, inferted into 

 the inner margin of the cup. 



Chives. Threads numerous, thread-fhaped, 

 united in five bundles. Tips incumbent. 



Pointal. Seed-bud turban-iliaped, growing 

 to the bottom of the cup. Shaft thread- 

 fliaped, ereft. Summit limple. 



Seed-vessel. Caplule nearly globular, coated 

 by the belly of the cup, the upper part 

 naked, three-celled, partitions contrary. 



Seeds many, oblong, or rounded with angles, or 

 winged. 



CHARACTER. 



Melaleuca with fcattered or oppofite leaves, li- 

 near, without nerves, a little turned back 

 and beardlefs ; flowers grow clofe to the 

 Item, 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 Blolibm, natural fize. 



3. The fame magnified. 



4. One of tlie 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 

 , magnitied. 



The plants from New Holland, of the natural order of Myrli ; comprized under the different Genera 

 of Metroiideros, Eucalvptus, Leptolpermura. Myrtus, and this prefent one of Melaleuca; teem, from 

 what we yet know, to conlVitute a very difiinguilhed part, of the woodv vegetable produiffions of that 

 country : wherefore, we can have little hopes of f^-eing many of tliem flower with us, at leaft, for 

 many years to conic. The M. ericaefolia was amongli: the flrli plants raifcd in 1/88, by Mellrs. Lee 

 and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from feeds; but, till this year, we believe it has not been fecn to flower, 

 in any coUeflion in Great Britain ; nor perhaps would it, as vet, had not a large and old plant, been 

 planted out in the novel and elegant confervatory of the Right Hon. the Marquis of Blandford at 

 White Knights, near Reading, Berks, from a branch of which, obligingly communicated by his Lord- 

 iliip, our drawing was taken, the beginning of July, thi< year. 



The Plant grows to the height of fix or leven feet, upright, very brandling, the branches weep- 

 ing, and the flowers, which grow in fpikes or branches of about fix inches in length, project, ftraiglit 

 out, from about the middle of the Hem. 



It grows beli in a mixture of two thirds fandv peat, and one third loam; may be propagated by 

 cuttings made, from the tender fliools, in the month of March, and kept under a glafs, in the tan bed 

 of the hothoule, or in a melon frame until rooted. 



"1 his fpecies of Mel.ileuca and the Metroiideros Nodofa of Gaertner, 1 ft Vol. de fru6l. p. 1 72, t. 34, 

 f. 6, we muli conlider as tiie fame, though made by Dr. Smith, fee Linn. Tranf Vol. IIL p. 276, 

 diliine^ fpecies ; perhaps from fpccimens gathered at ditierent times, differently dried, or from difTer- 

 f ut parts of the country. 



