METROSIDEROS LANCEOLATA. 
IS beautiful ever- green shrub is one of 
those vegetable productions of New South 
Wales, which have been classed under the 
general title, Banksia, 
It is, according to the Llnnaean system, of 
the Icosandria Monogynia order ; and is, by- 
some naturalists, called the Metrosideros Citri- 
na, or Harsh- Leaved Metrosideros. 
The name Metrosideros was originally 
given, by Riunphius, to some plants of this 
^enus found at the Dutch settlement of Am- 
boyna. The term is classically significant 
of the hardness of the wood for which those 
plants are distinguished; and which, in the 
Dutch language, is called Yzerhout, or Iron-^ 
wood. Forster figures this and another ge- 
nus on the same plate, under tlic name Lep- 
tospermum ; and, Schreber, in his Linnseus, 
places Metrosideros, Melaleuca, Leptosper- 
mum, 
