Leptospermumf\ 
LI. MYRTACE/E. 
591 
7. L. stellatum (star-like), Car. 1c. iv. 10 t. 390. f. 1 (from the tiyure ami 
description ) ; Bentli. FI. Austr. iii. 107. Much-branched and erect, from 2 or 3 
to several feet high, the young shoots silky-pubescent, the adult foliage glabrous 
or nearly so. Leaves from rather broadly elliptical-oblong to oblong-linear or 
linear-lanceolate, mostly from J to Jin. long, obtuse or mucronate-acute, rather 
rigid, more or less conspicuously 1 or 3-nerved. Flowers rather small, sessile or 
very shortly pedicellate in the upper axils or terminating short leafy shoots and 
then often two together. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, densely silky-pubescent ; 
lobes silky, more acute and more persistent than in L. myrtifolium . Ovary flat- 
topped or concave. Capsule level with the margin of the calyx or scarcely 
protruding. — L. sericatum, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 298. 
Hab.: Moreton Island, M'Gillivray ; Logan River, Fraser; near Lake Salvator, Mitchell: 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy (specimens in fruit only, and doubtful ; capsules very small). 
Var. grandijtomm. Flowers larger, the calyx-tube fully 2 lines long. — L. yniduefolium of 
German gardens, but scarcely of DC. Queensland, Bowman. 
8. I., attenuatum (leaves attenuated), Sin. in Trans. I Ann. Sue. iii. 262 ; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. iii. 108. “ Booah,” Bundaberg, Keys. Very near L. stellatum, 
differing only in the pedicellate flowers. Branches usually slender and loose. 
Leaves mostly narrow-oblong and about Jin. long, but varying from broadly 
oblong and Jin. to linear and above lin. long. Flowers usually small, solitary 
in the axils or 2 together on short leafy branchlets, on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. 
Calyx-tube densely silky-pubescent, contracted at the base, lobes usually 
persistent. Capsule scarcely prominent above the calyx-rim. — L. pendulum, 
Sieb. PI. Exs.; L. yniduefolium, DC. Prod. iii. 228?; L. breripes, F. v. M. in 
Trans. Viet. Inst. 1855, 125. 
Hab.: Northumberland Islands, R. Brown (with small leaves and dowers) ; ranges near 1’eak 
Downs, F. v. Mueller (with long narrow leaves). 
9. I>. myrtifolium (myrtle-leaved), Sieb. in DU. Trod. iii. 238 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. iii. 108. A tall shrub attaining 8 to 10ft. but flowering when only 1 to 
2ft. high, the branches usually more slender than in /.. laniyerum, glabrous or 
silky. Leaves usually small and rarely Jin. long, obovate or oblong, flat or 
concave, nerveless or 1 or 3-nerved, glabrous or silky-white. Flowers rather 
small, all or nearly all solitary, sessile and axillary. Bracts none or already 
fallen from the very young bud. Calyx-tube turbinate, silky with appressed 
hairs, rarely above 2 lines diameter, lobes shorter than the tube, glabrous or 
slightly silky, membranous and much more deciduous than in L. laniyerum. 
Ovary flat-topped or concave, with a central depression round the style, 5-celled. 
Capsule flat-topped, on a level with or scarcely protruding from the calyx-rim. — 
Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 140; Kriostemon ! trinerre, Hook. .Journ. Bot. i. 254; 
7,. multicaule, A. Cunn. in Field, N.S. Wales, 349 ; Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii. 923. 
Hab.: Moreton Island, M'Gillivray (like a var. of L. laniyerum from the same place, but with 
the calyx of L. myrtifolium j ; Rockhampton, Thozet (leaves narrow and glabrous). 
Wood close-grained, tough, and dark-coloured. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 166b. 
10. I.. abnorme (differing from ordinary species), F. v. M. Herb.; Bentli. 
FI. Austr. iii. 109. A tall shrub with rather slender virgate branches, glabrous 
or the young shoots minutely silky. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute or 
mucronate, mostly 1 to 2in. long, prominently 1-nerved, with 1 or 2 faint lateral 
nerves on each side. Flowers nearly sessile, rather small, axillary or several 
together in a compact sessile terminal corymbose raceme. Bracts very deciduous. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, glabrous, nearly 14 line long; lobes ovate-triangular, 
persistent, with petal-like margins. Petals about twice as long as the calyx-lobes, 
less contracted at the base than in most Leptospermums. Stamens about 25, 
