Leptospermum.] 
li. myrtacej:. 
589 
year. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, £ to fin. long, 2 to 2b lines broad in the 
centre, midrib and a marginal nerve on each side prominent, oil-dots numerous, 
with blunt, glandular, slightly recurved apex, base decurrent forming angles on 
the branchlets, slightly silky when young, as are also the young shoots. Flowers 
few or solitary, terminating the branchlets. Calyx muricate, tube turbinate ; 
lobes bluntly triangular, the upper part bearing a dense, woolly pubescence. 
Petals about 8 lines long, or twice as long as calyx-lobes, rotund, ovate and 
veined. Capsules solitary or 2 together at the ends of the short branchlets. 
Calyx-tube glabrous, 5-ribbed, corresponding with the 5 cells, nearly sessile, 
slightly over 2 lines diameter ; the capsule prominent above the calyx-tube. 
Hab.: South Peak, Bellender Ker ( Kxped. 1889 and A. Mestoii 1892), and so far as at present 
known only found there. 
The wood is strong, heavy, and of a reddish colour. 
3. Z>. flavescens (yellowish), Sjn. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 262 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 104. “Tantoon,” Bundaberg, Keys. Usually a tall shrub, quite 
glabrous or the young parts minutely silky-hoary. Leaves from narrow-oblong 
or linear-lanceolate to broadly oblong or even obovate, obtuse or scarcely acute, 
rigid, flat, nerveless or 1 or 3-nerved, attaining fin. in the largest forms but 
usually under iin. and sometimes all very small. Flowers solitary,' terminating 
the branchlets or axillary and nearly sessile, as variable in size as in L. laniyerum, 
and of the same shape. Calyx quite glabrous, the tube broadly campanulate or 
hemispherical ; lobes ovate, as long as the tube, membranous or thickened in the 
centre. Ovary 5-celled, more or less convex on the top, with a short central 
depression round the style. Capsule prominent above the calyx-tube. Seeds all 
narrow-linear, without wings. — DC. Prod. iii. 227 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 139 ; 
Melaleuca trinervia, White, Trav. 229 t. 24 ? ; Leptospermum polyyali folium, Salisb. 
Prod. 350; L. Thea, Willd. Spec. PI. ii. 949, and (on his authority) Melaleuca 
Tliea, Wendl. Sert. Hannov. 24 t. 13 ; L. tuberculatum, Poir. Diet. Suppl. iii. 338 
(from the character given). 
Hab.: Abundant about Brisbane River and Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller and 
others; Percy Island, A. Cunningham ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. 
Wood light-coloured, close-grained and tough. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 165a. 
This species, which extends also into the Indian Archipelago and Malacca, is scarcely to be 
distinguished from L. laniyerum except by the absence of all hairs or down from the calyx, and 
is equally variable, the extreme forms being at first sight so dissimilar that it requires the 
examination of a large number of specimens to believe in their specific identity, and at the same 
time it is almost impossible to draw a precise line of demarcation between this and several others. 
The following are the varieties which appear to be the most prominent and distinct. — Benth. 
a. commune. Leaves narrow, from under Jin. to fin. long. Flowers middle-sized. — Bot. 
Mag. t. 2695; L. porophyllum, Cav. Ic. iv. 17. t. 330 f. 2 (from the fig. and descr.) ; L. 
amboinense, DC. Prod. iii. 229, at least the specimens so named by Miquel and Blume ; Macklottiu 
amboinensis, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 196. — Also in the Indian Archipelago. 
b. obovatum, F. v. M. Leaves from broadly obovate to obovate-oblong, under Jin. loug. — L. 
obovatum, Sweet, FI. Austr. t. 36 ; L. micromyrtus, Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 145 (from 
the character given). — L. emarginatum , Wendl. in Spreng. Syst. ii. 491, has the leaves narrow 
as in a, but very obtuse or emarginateas in b. Specimens of this variety received from Burrum 
River (J. Keys ) had a strong citron odour. 
c. grandifiorum. Leaves rather large. Flowers larger than in any other variety. — L. grandi- 
dorum. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 514: L. virgatum , Schau. in Linneea, xv. 410; L. nobite, F. v. M.; 
Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 145. 
d. microphyllum. Leaves flat, oblong or lanceolate, J to Jin. long. 
e. minutifolium, F. v. M. Leaves all under Jin. and mostly under 2 lines long, obovate or 
oblong, concave and recurved. Flowers very small. This may prove sufficiently distinct to be 
considered as a species. 
All the forms in FI. Austr. are given, as our plant varies so much that all may be met with. 
4. L. scoparium (broom-like), Foist, t 'har. Ben. 48 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 
105. A rigid very much branched shrub, in alpine situations low and almost 
prostrate, more usually erect, and attaining sometimes 10 to 12ft., the young 
shoots often silky, the adult foliage mostly glabrous. Leaves from ovate to 
