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LI. MYRTACE.E. 
Leptospermum. 
linear-lanceolate or linear, rigid, concave, acute and pungent-pointed, mostly 
under 4in. long. Flowers axillary, sessile and solitary, or rarely terminating 
short lateral branchlets. Calyx quite glabrous, as variable in size as in 
L. jiavescens, and the flowers and fruit otherwise precisely as in that species.— 
Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 262; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 622 ; DC. Prod. iii. 227 ; 
Bot. Mag. t. 3419; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 138; Schau. in Linnaea, xv. 424 ; 
L. Jforibundum, Salisb. Prod. 349, and L. recurci folium, Salisb. l.c. 350 (from the 
characters given) ; L. juniper if oliuni (with narrow leaves), Sm. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. iii. 263 ; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 89; Schau. in Linnaea, xv. 431 ; L. multi - 
ftorum, Cav. Ic. PI. iv. 17 t. 331 f. 1 ; L. juniper if olium , Cav. l.c. 18 t. 331 f. 2 ; 
L. squarrosum, Sieb. PI. Exs.; L. rubrieaule, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 25 ; 
L. sti/phelioides, Schau. in Linmea, xv. 423 ; aciculare, Schau. l.c. 429 ; 
L. oxycedrus, Schau. l.c. 432; L. baccativm, Schau. l.c. 433, not of Sm. including 
according to Schau. L. persiciflorum , Reichb. Hort. Bot. iii. 8 t. 220; L. divari- 
catum, Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii. 923 (a starved small-leaved form). 
Hab.: Moreton Bay and many other localities. 
The species is also in New Zealand. 
5. Z>. arachnoideum (cobw'ebby), Sm. in Trans. Linn. Sm-. iii. 263 ; Bent. 
FI. Austr. iii. 105. A rigid much-branched shrub, with the habit of the narrow- 
leaved forms of L. scuparium , and the same pungent crowded rigid concave linear 
leaves, hut wuth the flowers of L. laniyerum, mostly on short lateral leafy 
branches, closely surrounded by floral leaves. Calyx broad, rather large, loosely 
woolly-hairy. Capsule shortly protruding from the calyx-tube, 5-celled or very 
rarely 3 or 4-celled. — DC. Prod. iii. 228 ; L. aracbioides, Gtertn. Fruct. i. 175 
t. 35 ; L. triloculare, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 88; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 791. 
Hab.: Stanthorpe (normal form). 
baccatnm, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 264. is a form with much less woolly calyxes, 
almost connecting this species with L scopariinn. Some specimens from C. Moore are quite like 
the one in Smith’s herbarium. — Benth. 
6. L. lanigerum (w r oolly), Sm. in irons. Linn. Soc. iii. 263 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 106. A tall erect shrub, sometimes growing into a small tree, rarely 
low and bushy, the branchlets usually softly pubescent. Leaves from obovate- 
oblong to elliptical or narrow-oblong, exceedingly variable in size and indumentum, 
in some luxuriant specimens attaining fin. or even more, but naturally not 
above Hu. and in some varieties all very much smaller, obtuse or mucronate- 
acute, more or less hoary silky or hairy underneath or on both sides, rarely 
glabrous except a few silky hairs on the margin, when broad and thin showing 
1, 3 or 5 nerves, more frequently rigidly coriaceous, the nerves scarcely prominent 
or concealed by the indumentum. Flowers solitary, terminating very short leafy 
branchlets, or rarely sessile on the branches without intervening leaves. Calyx 
broad, more or less densely clothed with silky or w'oolly hairs ; lobes triangular, 
often as long as the tube. Petals twice as long, broad, distinctly clawed. 
Stamens about 20 to 30, in a single series. Ovary 5-celled, convex, with a 
central depression, tvith numerous ovules in each cell. Capsule nearly globular 
but depressed at the top, more or less protruding from the calyx-tube, the lobes 
wearing off, varying from under 3 to above 4 lines diameter. Seeds linear 
without wings ; cotyledons as long as or rather longer than the radicle. — 
DC. Prod. iii. 227 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 139 ; L. australe, Salis. Prod. 350 ; 
Melaleuca trinervia, White Journ. 229 t. 24 (quoted by Smith and DC. as 
L. trincrre), is either this or L. favescens. 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
This exceedingly variable species has the calyx sometimes nearly glabrous, and then passes 
almost into L.jlavcscens. — Benth. 
