124 R. T. BAKER AND HENRY G. SMITH. 



On an UNDESORIBED SPECIES OP LEPTOSPERMUM 



and its ESSENTIAL OIL. 



By Richard T. Baker, f.l.s., Curator, and Henry G. 

 Smith, f.c.s., Assistant Curator, Technological Museum, 



Sydney. 



[With .Plate II.] 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, December 6, 1905.^} 



The Lemon Scented Leptospermum. 



Leptospermum Liversiclgei, sp. nov. 



A shrub 6 to 12 feet high, glabrous, with erect numerous 

 branches and brancblets, the lower branchlets being quite 

 filiform and having persistent leaves only on the upper part. 

 Leaves flat, concave and slightly curved, 2 to 3 lines long, 

 very numerous and imbricate, sessile or with a very short 

 petiole, mostly lanceolate but also ovate, rather thin, 1 to 

 3 nerved but not always clearly shown. Oil glands numer- 

 ous and distinctly marked. Flowers solitary, axilliary on 

 the branchlets, on a short pedicel, measuring about 6 to 8 

 lines in diameter when expanded. Calyx quite glabrous, 

 broadly campanulate, lobes rounded, as long as the tube, 

 thickened in the middle. Petals orbicular, spreading, much 

 larger than the calyx lobes, about 2 lines in diameter, 

 faintly veined. Ovary five-celled, flat on the top with 

 a slight depression round the base of the pistil and a 

 circular ridge near the free edge of the calyx. Capsule 

 domed above the distinct flange of the calyx, 2 to 3 lines 

 in diameter. 



Habitat — Ballina (D. W. Munro), Byron Bay (J. H. 

 Maiden and J. L. Boorman), Port Macquarie (all New South 

 Wales localities). 



