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Notes on Three Species of Melaleuca 



By Edwin Cheel, Botanical Assistant, Botanic Gardens, 



Sydney. 



(Communicated by J. M. Black.) 



[Read October 9, 1919.] 



Plate XXXVIII. 



Meluleuca pustulata, Hook, f., in Hook. Lond. Jour. 

 Bot., vi., 476 (1847). The original description is as 

 follows : — 



"Ramis glabris albo-striatis, ramulis puberulis, foliis 

 glaucis alternis subapproximatis erecto-patentibus subrecurvis 

 crassis glaberrimis lineari-obovatis anguste linearibusve obtusis 

 supra planis subter concavis punctato-tuberculatis, capitulis 

 flavis terminalibus sessilibus plurifloris sphaericis, hypanthio 

 breviter villoso, calycibus glaberrimis, lobis subherbaceis, 

 plialangibus staminum 5. 



"Hab. Campbell Town and Oyster Bay; Gvnn. 



"Rami graciles, lineis e basi petiolorum continuis albidis 

 striati, ramulis puberulis. Folia \-\ unc. longa, sub 1 lin. 

 lata, in petiolum brevem angustata. Capitula vix \ unc. 

 diam. Flores parvi." 



Then we liave a further description in Hooker's Fl. 

 Tasm., i., 129 (1860). 



Bentham (Fl. Aust., iii., 160, ann. 1866) quotes both the 

 above works and gives a lengthy description, with 31 . halma- 

 iurorum, F. v. M., adduced as a synonym, but as the latter 

 is a South Australian plant, and has distinctly opposite leaves, 

 and not alternate, as in J/, pustulata, it would seem to me 

 to belong to subseries i., Opjiotitifoliae, having affinities with 

 M. cymbifolia and M . cuticularis rather than with J/, pustu- 

 lata, which is in subseries v., Pauci florae, all of which species 

 have apparently alternate leaves. 



In the National Herbarium, Sydney, we have the type 

 specimen from the east coast of Tasmania, namely, R. C. 

 Gunn's No. 1069. There is also a specimen from Tasmania 

 without specific locality mentioned, collected by W. H. Archer, 

 which was identical with Gunn's specimen. A specimen 

 labelled "Darling River, New South Wales," without the 

 collector's name or date, seems to very closely resemble the 

 Tasmanian specimens, but we require further fresh material 



