METROSIDEROS LANCEOLATA. 
mum, and Fabricia, all under the genus Me- 
laleuca : but Goertner, in his elaborate work 
on the seeds of plants, makes them separate 
genera, in conformity with the ideas of Sir 
Joseph Banks and Mr. Dryander. 
The Metrosideros Lanceolata, under the 
name of Metrosideros CitHna, has been 
figured and described by Mr. Curtis, from 
a plant of English growth, produced to- 
ward the close of the summer 1793, at Lord 
Cremorne's. But, though the root, as Mr. 
Curtis informs us, came from Botany Bay, the 
flowering, on the slightest inspection of the 
print, will be found so different from that 
which we have delineated with all the accuracy 
of which coloured engravings are susceptible, 
from the actual plant as it flowers in New 
South Wales, that even it's kindred might al- 
most fail to be recognized by any person not 
an adept in the botanical science. The flow- 
ers, in fa»5l» so far from appearing one blended 
m iss of crimson tilamcnts, unencumbered by 
surrounding leaves, and forming, as it were, 
a single flower, headed like a spear, as in the 
annexed 
