PLATE CCLXXYITT. 



MELALEUCA CORONATA. 



Flax-leaved Melaleuea. 



CLASS XVIIL ORDER IV. 

 POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads in many Sets. Many Cliives. 



ESSEKTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx quinquefidus, femifuperus. Petala quin- 

 que. Filamenta raulta longiflima, coniiata 

 in quinque corpoia. PilUUum unum. Cap- 

 fula 3-loculans. 



Cur five-cleft, half above. Petals five. Threads 

 numerous, very long, united into five bo- 

 dies. Pointal 1. Capfule 3-celled. 



SccMlLALEUCA ER1C.EF0LIA, PI. IJS. Vol. III. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Melaleuca foliis oppofitis, lanceolatis, enerviis, 

 glaberrimis ; floribus feflilibus, ad bafin ra- 

 mulorum confertis ; filanientis pinnatis, in- 

 cuiTatis, piirpureis. 



ISItlaleuca with oppofite, lance-fhaped leaves, 

 without nerves and very fmooth ; flowers 

 grow clofe to the branches, and crowded 

 together at their bale; threads winged, 

 turned inward, and purple. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement and Seed-bud. 



2. The fame, fliewn in a front view. 



3. A Petal. 



4. One of the five bundles of Chives, magnified. 



5. The Seed-bud with the iliaft remaining, the cup cut off. 



This Angularly delicate little plant, a native of Botany Bay, was fiift raifed from feeds in this country 

 by Mr. I. Fairbairne of the Phyfic Gardens, Chelfea, in the year 1/92. It is rather mote tender than 

 moft of the plants we have, as yet, received from thence; requires to be kept in a dry and airy part of 

 the green-houfe and watered but feldom, in the winter. It grows to the heiglit of about two feet, 

 perfeds its feeds, and may be increafed by cuttings; flioiild be planted in very fandy peat earth, and 

 kept in a fmall pot proportionally to its fize. Our figure was taken from the branch of a plant, in the 

 confervatory, at the Hammerfraith Nurfery, in the month of Auguft, 1800. 



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