PLATE CC. 



MELALEUCA HYPERICIFOLIA. 



Sl Johns-'wort-lca-ced Melaleuca. 



CLASS XVIIL ORDER IV. 

 POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in many Sets. iMany Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx quinquefidus, femifuperus.. Petala quin- 11 Cup five-cleft, half above. Petals five. Threads 

 que. Filamenta mulia, longiflima, connata numerous, very long, united Into five bodies. 



in quinque corpora. Piftillum unum. Cap- Pointal one. Capfule three-celled, 



tula trilocularis. I' 



See Melaleuca ERic«FOLiA, Pl.Cl.XXV. Vol.111. 



SPECIFIC CHAKACTfii.. 



Melaleuca foliis oppofilis, eliptico-oblongis, uni- 

 nerviis; floribus conferiis; filamentis lon- 

 giffimifi, linearibus, apice radialo-multifidis. 



Melaleuca with oppofite leaves, eliptic-oblong, 

 one-nerved; flowers cluftered; threads very 

 long, linear, rayed and many-cleft at the top. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower, natural fixe. 



2. One of the five bundles of Chives, whh its petal, to which it is attached at the bale, 



magnified 



3. The tup, feed-bud, Qiaft and fummit, natural fize, the fummit detached and mag- 



nified. 



About the year 1/92 thTs plant was firll railed from feeds, by the late Mr. William Malcolm, 

 Nurferyman, at Stockwell, Surry ; and was, from die veiy great refemblance it bears to the St. John's- 

 worts, fo denominated, until it flowered. It has now become one of the conimoneft, of what are 

 generally termed. Botany Bay plants; yet unqueftionably ranks with the handfomeft whether for its 

 foliage, form of growth, or flowers, which are of a moft beautiful red-purple, Icarcely to be imitated 

 in painting. The fingular manner in which the flower-Item is thrown out, as it were, from the old 

 wood, in a horizontal direction, is common to many other fpecies of tlie Genus. It grows to the height 

 of four or five feet, very ere6l in every part ; is eafily increafed by cuttings, and thrives beft in peat 

 earth. Although it is laid to grow in fwaropy grounds inlSTew South Wales, fee Linn.'ean Tranfa6tions, 

 Vol. III. p. 279, neverthelefs, with us, a dry, or damp fituation in the green-houfe, appears equally 

 congenial to it. In the month of September 1799, our drawing was taken at the Confervatory of 

 R. James, Efq, Grofvenor. Place. 



