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MYRTACEiE. 



453. Verticordia Cuiminghamii Sohauer. 



This tropical species varies from a tall shrub to a tree of 25ft. 

 in height ; trunk to 8ft. ; diameter 7in. ; bark greyish, 

 thin, fibrous, rough ; timber dark-brown to almost black 

 and extremely hard ; flowers white to pale- yellow. 



454. V. grandis Drum. 



A shrub, 2ft. in height and spreading to a width of 3ft. ; flowers 

 scarlet. 



455. Galythrix microphylla A. Cunn. 



A bushy shrub, 10-I5ft. high ; flowers reddish-purple. 



456. C. achaeta F. v M. 



Glenelg River (J. Martin) ; between Napier and King Leopold 

 Ranges ; Lennard, Isdell, Barker, Adcock, Hann, Barnett, 

 Charnley, Calder, Ord, Denham and King Rivers ; 

 Dillen's Springs (W.V.F.). 



A Selaginella-like shrub of 10ft. high or less ; flowers white. 

 Among sandstone and quartzite rocks. 



457. O. brachychsBta F. v. M. 



Between Lennard River andlngUs' Gap, King Leopold Ranges ; 



Isdell, Charnley, Denham and King Rivers (W.V.F.) 

 Diffuse, to 15ft. high ; glabrous excepting the flowers, which 



are white. In sandy soil. 



458. Melaleuca alsophila A. Cunn. 



Erect bushy shrub of 15ft. to a tree of 25ft. ; trunk to 6 or 8ft. ; 

 diameter 9in. ; bark whitish to greyish, papery, and peeling 

 off in sheets ; timber reddish, fairly hard and tough ; fila- 

 ments pale yellow. 



459. M. Crosslandiana W.V.F. n. sp. 



Shrubby to arborescent, the young shoots, rachises, calyces 

 sUky pubescent, otherwise glabrous ; leaves alternate 

 lanceolate, acute, firm, alternated into short petioles, 3-5 

 nerved, anastomosing between ; flowers in loose terminal 

 spikes, often several together, the axis growing out into a 

 leafy branchlet before or on completion of the floweriag ; 

 calyx-tube ovoid, the lobes very short, broad and obtuse ; 

 petals pink, almost orbicular, on short broad claws, glab- 

 rous ; staminal claws much shorter than the petals, each 

 with 4^5 rather thick crimson filaments ; anthers sulphur- 

 yellow, ovate ; ovary white-tomentose ; o^oiles exceeding 

 numerous, somewhat ascending on a thickeiied placenta ; 

 style exceeding the stamens, the stigma dilated, capitate, 

 fruiting calyx ovate-truncate ; seeds wingless. 



Base of Mt. House, near Derby. (W.V.F.). 



A shrub of 8-12ft. to a tree of 30ft. ; trunk to 12ft. ; diameter 

 1ft.; bark grey, rough, fibrous and persistent, timber 



