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bent into a semi-circle giving the leaves a decided falcate appearance. Vena- 

 tion very prominent, varjdng from 5 to 7, or occasionally 9 to 11, with numerous 

 intermediary prominent-nerves which give the leaves a net-work appearance, 

 plainly visible to the naked eye. Oil-glands more or less obscure even when 

 held up to the light. Flowers in loose terminal spikes usually of a reddish 

 colour, 3 to 4-1 inches long, the rachis more or less wooUy-tomentose, as well as 

 the calyx-tube, calyx-lobes somewhat persistent. Petals small, roundish, 

 scarcely 2 lines long, glabrous, scarious. Stamens reddish or crimson, a little 

 over f-inch long, the filaments shortly united at the base. Fruits 3-4 mm. 

 diam., truncate at the orifice. 



The following specimens are in the National Herbarium, Sydney : — New 

 Holland, Banks and Solander, 1770 ; Thursday Island, F.M. Bailey ; Croydon, 

 N. Queensland, R. H. Cambage (No. 3922), August, 1913 ; Cape York, (no 

 collector or date given). To the above we may also add specimens collected 

 by Mr. G. F. Hill (No. 420), from 160 miles N. of Survey Camp, C. III., July, 

 1911. 



(5) M. Lev/xtdendron. Var. Cunninghami {Sohnu). Syn. 31. Cunningham i, 

 Schau. in Walp. 



Rep. ii., p. 927 (1843). 



This is very similar in general appearance to M. sanguinea of Solander, but 

 has green or greenish-yellow flov/ers, and the leaves rather more silvery or silky 

 hairy. The following are the localities : — Wyndham, N.W. Western Austraha, 

 A. E. V. WoodrofEe, 1903 ; Providence Knoll and Driffield Creek, Northern 

 Territory, Sir Baldwin Spencer, July- August, 1911 ; Port Darwin, N. Holtze ; 

 near Saxby River, Miss Sulman, August, 1913. In Granite Creek, Alma-den 

 N. Queensland, R. H. Cambage (No. 3867), bark almost fibrous, 20 ft. high, 

 alt. 1600 ft. ; Sweer's Island, J. F. Bailey, June, 1901 ; Bay River, Western 

 Australia W. V. Fitzgerald, May, 1905. There are also specimens collected bv 

 Mr. G. F. Hill (No. 403), 90 miles N. of Camp iv., June, 1911. 



(6) M. Leiwadendron. Var. coriacea, Syn. Jletrosideros quinquenervia, 

 Cav. 



Icon, 4, p. 19, Tab. 333 (1797) ; M. coriacea, Poir, suppl. 385, in D.C. Prod, 

 iii., list of Synonyms under Melaleuca viridiflora. 



In the National Herbarium, Sydney, there is a large series of specimens, 

 with shiny, coriaceous 5-nerved leaves, more or less acute, and which agree 

 with those in CavaniUes' illustration quoted above, and which somewhat 

 resemble the specimens of the var. viridiflora, but seem to be an intermediate 

 variety between that species and the var. Cunninghamii. 



I have not seen the original specimens named by Poiret, but have taken up 

 his name for this variety as it seems to be appropriate, and, will cause less con- 

 fusion than would be the case if CavaniUes' name "quinquenervia" was taken 

 up as it should according to the rules of priority, owing to the fact of other 

 varieties having five-nerves. §This seems to be a fairly common plant along the 

 rivers in the Northern parts of Queensland and extends into the extreme North 

 of Austraha, and is probably the plant referred to by Baron F. von. Mueller in 

 his Botanical Report on North Austrahan Expedition, under the command of 

 A. C. Gregory, Esq. (Jour. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) ii., p. 144, 1858), where he gives the 

 following remarks : — " Melaleuca Leucadendron, forms the largest and straight- 

 est timber tree in the North." These remarks coincide with those made by Mr. 

 W. S. Campbell, as published in the " Sydney Morning Herald of October 6th, 

 1913," when describing a trip to the Northern parts of the Continent, as follows : 

 " Hore and thronjrhnnt the country, in the many favourable moist places, the 



