Calythrix .] 
LI. MYRTACEiE. 
579 
long, connate at the base, truncate and finely mucronate. Calyx-tube attaining 
6 lines, cylindrical, the adnate portion scarcely fusiform, the upper free portion 
about as long, not more slender, enclosing the style ; lobes short, broad, with 
long hair-like awns. Petals acute, 4 to 5 lines long. Stamens very numerous ; 
connective-gland small. 
Hab.: In the interior, Mitchell : Suttor River, F. r. Mueller. 
3. C. leptophylla (leaves slender), Benth. Ft. Austr. iii. 50. Quite glabrous. 
Leaves crowded on the short branchlets, slender, linear, semiterete or triquetrous, 
obtuse or scarcely mucronate, mostly about 2 lines. Flowers (pink ?) nearly 
sessile in the upper axils, much smaller than in C. longiflora, but otherwise 
similar. Bracteoles connate below the middle, acutely acuminate, about 2 lines 
long. Calyx-tube slender, about 4 lines long, the lower portion scarcely fusiform, 
the upper cylindrical portion free, enclosing the style. Petals and stamens 
not seen. 
Ha l >.: Newcastle Range, F. v. Mueller. 
A single specimen snatched in breaking through the scrub, and communicated under the 
name of C. tenuifolia, which is now, however, preocuppied by a species of Meissner’s. It is 
evidently very near C. longiflora and G. microphylla, but can scarcely be considered as conspecific 
with either. — Benth. 
4. C. tetragona (four-angled), Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 8, t. 146 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iii. 50. An elegant shrub, usually of 2 or 3ft., but sometimes 
drawn up to a much greater height, glabrous pubescent or hirsute with short 
rigid hairs, the branches virgate or spreading. Leaves erect or spreading, linear, 
triquetrous or convex underneath, obtuse or mucronulate, mostly 2 to 3 lines 
long, or when luxuriant nearly twice as long, the stipules which have been chiefly 
observed in this species so minute and deciduous as to be rarely seen. Flowers 
white or pink, nearly sessile in the upper axils, forming dense terminal short or 
oblong leafy heads, becoming lateral by the elongation of the shoots, especially 
in poor cultivated specimens. Bracteoles free, scarious, keeled, about 2 lines 
long. Calyx-tube about 2 lines at the time of flowering, lengthening out to 4 
lines or even more, the lower portion fusiform, produced into a long slender solid 
neck or stipes to the short campanulate or turbinate free part ; lobes ovate, with 
fine awns longer than the petals. Petals obtuse, about 2 lines long. Stamens 
usually above 20 ; connective gland small. Style inserted on the summit of the 
solid neck of the calyx. — F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 36 ; C. glabra, R. Br. in Bot. Reg. 
t. 409 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 586; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 127 ; C. glabra, C. tetra- 
ptera, and C. scabra, DC. Prod. iii. 208 ; Mem. Myrt. t. 1 ; C. ericoides, A. Cunn. 
in Field, N. S. Wales, 350; <J. virgata, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3323; 
C. brunioides, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. under the same n.; C. Billardierii , C. 
virgata, C. scabra, and C. brunioides, Schau. Myrt. Xeroc. 93 to 97 ; C. Brown'd, 
Schau. l.c. 108, and probably C. Baueri, Schau. l.c. 109 ; C. pubescens, Sweet in 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 811; C. Behriana, Schlecht. Linn*, xx. 650; C. Schlechten- 
dahlii, G. rosea, C. leucantha, C. squarrosa, C. monticola, G. Muelleri, Miq. in 
Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 116 to 119. 
Hab.: Stanthorpe and other inland localities. 
This is undoubtedly a variable species, and individual specimens often exhibit very striking 
differences, but the numerous species founded upon it have been chiefly distinguished by the 
degree of pubescence, by the size and direction of the leaves, the length of the calyx-tube, and 
other characters, often dependent on age, luxuriance, or local circumstances, and which, in the 
large mass of specimens I have examined, show such insensible gradations that I have in vain 
sought to class them in distinct varieties by any tangible characters. Amidst all these variations, 
this species is reaiily distinguished by the short free part of the calyx always much broader than 
the neck of the adnate part, although it varies from narrow campanulate to very broadly 
turbinate. — Benth. 
