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NoTES ON THREE SPECIES OF MELALEUCA 
By Epwin Cueet, Botanical Assistant, Botanic Gardens, 
Sydney. 
(Communicated by J. M. Black.) 
[Read October 9, 1919.] 
PrarTE XXXVIII. 
Meluleuca pustulata, Hook. f., in Hook. Lond. Jour. 
Bot., vi., 476 (1847). The original description 1s as 
follows : — 
breviter villoso, calycibus glaberrimis, lobis subherbaceis, 
phalangibus staminum 5. 
“Hab. Campbell Town and Oyster Bay; Gun 
“Rami graciles, lineis e basi petiolorum tee albidis 
striati, ramulis puberulis. Folia }-4 unc. longa, sub 1 lin. 
lata, in petiolum pa angustata. Capitula vix } unc. 
diam. Flores par : 
en we (eis, a further description in Hooker's Fl. 
Tasm., i., 129 (1860). 
Bentham (Fl. Aast., iii., 160, ann. 1866) quotes both the 
above works d gives a lengthy Babes dons with M. halma- 
turorum, F. v. M., adduced as a synonym, but as the latter 
is a a Bonth ote plant, and has distinctly oppone pup 
and not alternate, as in M. pustulata, it would s 
to belong to subseries i. , Oppositifoliae, having d pens "ud 
M. cymbifolia and M. cuticularis rather than with M. pustu- 
lata, which is in subseries v., Pauciflorae, all of which species 
have apparently alternate leaves. 
In the National erben. Sydney, we have the in 
specimen ris the east Mete f Tasmania, namely, Ñ. C. 
Gunn's No. 1069. There is also a specimen from Tasmania 
without specific locality iata, collected by W. H. a. 
which was reign with Gunn's specim A specum 
. , labelled “‘Darling River, New South Wales, » without the 
ic collector's name or date, seems: to very closely res emble the 
a x emen, t we require further fresh i material 
