298 THE FLORA OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. 



tea tree, Melaleuca Leucadendron, abounds. Along the banks of the rivers, 

 creeks, and many lagoons and swampy localities, it attains a great height and 

 diameter. Overhanging the water amongst other vegetation, with its silvery 

 green, pendulous leaves, it adds greatly to the beauty of many beautiful 

 places. This tree seems to differ to some extent from that bearing the same 

 name in New South Wales, and which is very common about the coast, the 

 leaves being more willo-svy-like." Baker and Smith (Jour. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 

 xlvii. p. 193) re-publish Mr. Campbell's remarks, and add the following made 

 by Mr. W. H. Tibbits, L.S. "These trees also grow in Cape York Peninsula 

 and out from Cooktown." § Some specimens collected by Mr. Campbell are in 

 the National Herbarium, Sydney, and agree with those from the following 

 localities :— Lat. 17 degrees. Long. 132 degrees, G. P. Hill (No. 453), 7/7/11. 

 Booroola, Northern Territory, G. F. Hill (No. 578), 7/9/11 ; Maudes' Creek 

 and Stirling Creek, Sir Baldwin Spencer, July, 1911 ; Antigua Estate, Ingham, 

 N. Queensland, Ralph G. Johnson, 1903 ; Charters Towers, Queensland, W. B. 

 Walker, August, 1903 ; Rockham.pton, Q., R. Simmons, 1903 ; Yeppon, Q., 

 J. L. Boorman, August, 1912, 30-40 ft. ; Alma-den, N.Q., R. H. Cambage 

 (No. 3866), August, 1913, 20 ft. high ; Croydon, N.Q., R. H. Cambage (No. 

 3929), August, 1913 ; Prairie to Baronta, 30 miles east of Hughenden, N.Q., 

 R. H. Cambage (No. 3964 and No. 3967), 10 ft. high, August, 1913 ; Boulder- 

 combe, Rockhampton, Q., P. W. Smith, November, 1911. 



M. Leucadendrum. Var. coriacea forma Crosslandiana (W. V. Fitzg.). 

 Tliis is very similar to var. cwiacea, but has reddish or crimson colour«3 

 filaments instead of greenish-yellow ones. The name Crosslandiana was first 

 pubhshed by Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald in the Western Mail, 2nd June, 1906, 

 with a photographic sketch. Specimens of this in the National Herbarium 

 are from the following localities : — Mount Harris, W. Kimberley, W. V. 

 Fitzgerald, June, 1905, and near Derby, W. V. Fitzgerald, July, 1906. Some 

 specimens in fruit only collected at Pt. Hedland by Dr. J. B. Cleland, seem to 

 belong to this variety. 



Then v/e have Callistemon nervosus, Lindl., in Mitchell's Trop. Aust., p. 

 235, 1848. It is included by Bentham (B. Fl. iii., 143) as a synonym under the 

 name Melaleuca Leucadendron, var. ("i) parvifolia. The original specimens were 

 collected at Mitchell's Camp of 16th July, 1846, which is quite close to Mantua 

 Downs on the Claude and Nogoa Rivers, south of Springsure, N. Queensland. 

 The flowers when fresh are evidently of a crimson colour, as will be seen by 

 Jlitchell's remarks, which are as follows : — . . . " and we found a magnificent 

 new crimson Callistemon, with its young flowers and leaves wrapped in wool." 



A description is also given by Mitchell, I.e., as follows : — " C. nervosum 

 (Lindl., M.S.) ; ramis pallidis, foliis ovato-lancelatis quinque-nerviis mucron- 

 atis junioribus tomentosis, rachi calycibusque lanatis." 



I have examined the specimens collected by Mitchell, which are in the 

 National Herbarium, Melbourne, kindly lent by Professor A. J. Ewart, and find 

 that they are almost identical with the forma Crosslandiana, which, as I have 

 said before, differ only from the var. coriacea in the flowers being crimson 

 instead of greenish-yellow. As the name " nervosa" has already been apphed 

 to another myrtaceous plant by Link, it seems advisable to place this as a 

 synonym under forma Crosslandiana. 



I have not seen specimens of M. lanceolala, R. Br., Herb., nor of Leptos- 

 peniiuni speciosum, Schau., in Walp. Rep. ii., 923, the latter of which, according 

 to Bentham (B. Fl. iii., 143) are " described from Cunningham's specimens in 

 hud only," but as Cunningham's specimens were collected in New South Wales 

 and Moreton Bay {vide Walp. Rep. ii., 923) and Brown's wore according to 



