158 XXIX. MYETACBAE. [Leptospermum. 



Var. prostratum. Stems prostrate, ascending at the tips. Leaves ovate or nearly orbicular, 

 close-set, spreading or recurved. On mountains. 



Var. parvum. lft.-2ft. high. Branchlets strict. Bud-scales silky, villous. Leaves ovate, 

 spreading, pungent, very coriaceous. Flowers small, |in. in diameter. Calyx-tube glabrous. Near 

 Wellington. 



Flovsrers white or rarely red. The leaves are occasionally used as a substitute tor tea. 



2. L. ericoides, A. Rich., Fl. N.Z. 338. A shrub or tree, 20ft.-60ft. 

 high, with trunk 1ft.— 3ft. in diameter. Uranchlets very slender. Leaves 

 crowded or fascicled, narrow-linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, glabrate 

 or silky. Mowers Jin.— iin. in diameter, axillary, solitary or fascicled, often 

 crowded. Pedicels glabrous, puberulous or silky. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate 

 in flower, glabrous or puberulous ; teeth 5, acute, persistent. Petals orbicular, 

 scarcely clawed. Ovary slightly sunk within the calyx-tube, 5-celled ; style 

 stout. Fruiting calyx-tube campanulate. Capsule coriaceous or woody, wholly 

 included within the calyx-tube. — A. Gunn., Precurs. n. 554i ; Hook, f ., Fl. N.Z. 

 i. 70 ; Handbk. 70 ; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 69. Philadelphus parviflorus, 

 var. aromaticus, Banks and Sol. MS. 



NOBTH and SOUTH Islands : from the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape to South- 

 land. Ascends to nearly 3,000ft. Manuka-rauriki. Kanuka. Maru. Tea-tree. Nov. to Jan. 



Var. llneatum. Very slender, 2ft.-6ft. high, rarely prostrate. Leaves very narrow linear, 

 ^gtH.-j^jin. broad, acute ; margins faintly recurved, glabrate or silky ; midrib and dotted glands 

 sunk. Flowers smaller than in the type, and petals more crumpled. — T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. 

 t. 69, f. 2. NOETH Island : Mangonui to the Waitemata. 



3. L. Sinclairii, «. s. Stems prostrate or suberect, 1ft. -3ft. high, 

 spreading ; young shoots and leaves white with loosely appressed silky hairs. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, flat or concave. Flowers larger 

 and pedicels longer than in L. ericoides, crowded, fasciculate or umbellate. 

 Pedicels and calyx-tube silky, villous ; calyx-tube narrow-turbinate ; lobes 

 oblong, subacute or rounded. Petals obovate. Ovary deeply sunk within the 

 calyx-tube ; style slender. Fruiting calyx-tube campanulate, silky. 



NOETH Island : Great Barrier Island, Hutton and Kirk. Sea-level to 1,800ft. Nov. to 

 Jan. Originally discovered by Dr. Sinclair. 



Nearly related to L. ericoides, but distinguished at sight by the white silky leaves, larger 

 fiowers, and longer pedicels. The ovary is sunk fully one-third below the narrow calyx-tube, while 

 the sepals and petals are narrower, and the style is extremely slender. The fiowers are deliciously 

 fragrant. 



•EUCALYPTUS, L'H6rit. 

 Calyx-tube broadly turbinate or campanulate, adnata to the ovary at the base 

 or rarely to the apex, truncate, entire or minutely 4-toothed, the orifice closed by a 

 conical or convex operculum (formed by the connate and concreted petals), •which is 

 forced off by the growth of the stamens. Stamens numerous, in several series, free 

 or shortly cohering at the base; anthers small, versatile. Ovary inferior, 3-6-celled ; 

 ovules many in each cell. Fruit a coriaceous or woody capsule, truncate, adnate 

 to the enlarged calyx-tube, 3-6-celled, dehiscing looulicidally at the apex. Seeds 

 numerous, partly sterile, often of 2 forms, ovoid or "subglobose, or linear, angular. 

 Shrubs or trees of large dimensions. Leaves in the young state often opposite and 



