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4. L. I'LAVBSCBNS, Sm. Slender, 5-10 feet, often drooping. Leaves narrow or 

 broadly oblong or nearly spathulate, 3-8 lines long, blunt or sbortly pointed. 

 Flowers mostly nearly sessile axillary, as in tbe last but muoh smaller. Capsule 

 .glabrous, red, fleshy till very old, flat, then somewhat convex. 



Very common in wet heaths ; also Eastern Australia. It also occurs in the 

 Eastern Archipelago. Fl. Nov.-Dec. 



Var. nitidum. Similar to the type, only slender, and with a drooping 

 tendency. Capsules somewhat silky hairy. L. nitidum, H. Usually 

 referred to L. lanigerum, with which it only agrees by being tomentose 

 on the capsules. 



6. L. MYETIFOLITJM, Sieb. A small or tall shrub, 2-10 feet. Leaves obovate to 

 linear-spathulate, |-| inch long. Flowers solitary, nearly sessile, axillary. 

 Sepals short and broad. Petals 2-4 lines long. Capsule 2-4 lines diameter, flat- 

 topped, the valves alone protruding. 



Recherche, North and "West Coast, Bass Straits ; also Eastern Australia. Fl. 

 Oct.-Jan. 



6. L. EOPESTKB, S. A prostrate shrub, creeping over rocks, rarely erect. 

 Leaves oblong, blunt or slightly pointed, 2-3 lines loiig. Flowers axillary, or 

 terminating short lateral branches. Flowers and capsule as in L. scoparium. 



Common on mountain-tops. Fl. Jan. 



6. KUNZEA. 



Ovary wholly immersed in the floral tube which is continued above it, 

 2-5-celled. Sepals 5, continuous with the tube. Petals 6. Stamens numerous, 

 free, exceeding the petals in length. Fruit capsular, succulent. 



Limited to Australia. Intermediate between Leptospermum and Callistemon. 



K. CORIFOLIA, Reich. An erect shrub, 6-12 feet. Leaves linear, obtuse, slightly 

 concave, .3-4 lines long. Flowers numerous in terminal and axillary clusters, 

 nearly sessile, about 3 lines long. Sepals very short, broad. Petals white, \-\ 

 line long, orbicular. Stamens 3-4 lines long. 



Schouten to George's Bay, Bass Straits ; also in Victoria and New South 

 Wales. Fl. Dec. 



6. CALLISTEMON. 



Ovary wholly immersed in the floral tube, which is continued above it, 

 3-4-celled. Sepals 6, continuous with the tube. Petals 5. Stamens numerous, 

 exceeding the petals, free or indefinitely connected. Fruit a many-seeded woody 

 capsule, adnate, persistent on the branches. 



Limited to Australia. Distinct from Melaleuca in the stamens not being 

 united in five defined bundles. 



C. SALIGNUS, D. C- An erect shrub or small tree. Leaves lanceolate, blunt or 

 acute, \\-Z inches long. Flowers numerous in terminal spikes, but the shoot 

 soon continuing above. Sepals short. Petals green, about 2 lines long. Stamens 

 yellow, 6 lines. 



Very common on river-bauks ; also South Australia, Victoria, New South 

 Wales, and Queensland. Fl. Dec. 



Var. viridiflora. Leaves f-1 inch, rigid, acute, linear. Stamens f inch 

 long. V. viridiflorus, D. C. 



7. MELALEUCA. 



Ovary 3-celled, immersed in the floral tube, which is extended beyond it. 

 Sepals 5, continuous with the tube. Petals 5. Stamens very numerous, much 

 exceeding the petals, united in 5 bundles. Fruit a many-seeded capsule sunk in 



