LI. MYRTACEzE. 
598 
Kunzea . ] 
late or linear- cymbiform, as long as the calyx. ; bracteoles canaliculate-linear, 
silky. Calyx about 8 lines long, silky-villous outside, teeth deltoid, acuminate. 
Petals purplish, rotund, 1 line long. Stamens 50 to 60, purplish. Anthers 
minute, yellow, almost globular, dorsifixed. Style about 3 lines long, glabrous, 
purple. Ovary purple, 3-celled ; ovules numerous. Stigma small, depressed. 
Hab.: Flinders River, F. v. Mueller. 
2. K.. peduncularis (pedunculate), F. v. M. in Trans. Viet. Inst. 1855, 124, 
and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 67 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 115. A tall shrub or 
sometimes a small tree, the branchlets virgate, glabrous or very slightly silky 
when young. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, concave, acute, mostly about 
Jin., but varying from J to nearly lin. long. Flowers small, shortly pedicellate, 
in the upper axils, forming either short terminal leafy corymbs or long inter- 
rupted leafy racemes. Bracteoles scarious, but falling off from the very young- 
bud. Calyx glabrous, about 1J line long; lobes ovate, with scarious margins. 
Petals obovate, not exceeding 1 line. Stamens above 30, in a single series, from 
half as long again to twice as long as the petals. Ovary about half as long as the 
calyx-tube, 3-celled or very rarely 4-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell on 
a peltate placenta. Fruiting-calyx slightly enlarged. Seeds usually only one 
perfect in each cell. — Boeckea phylicoid.es, A. Cunn.; Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii. 921 ; 
Kunzea leptospernwides, F. v. M.; Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 146. 
Hab.: Queensland (without locality). F. v. Mueller. 
12. CALLISTEMON, R. Br. 
(Referring to the beautiful often red stamens.) 
Calyx-tube ovoid, campanulate or urceolate, adnate to the ovary at the base, 
the free part erect or contracted ; lobes 5, imbricate, more or less scarious, 
deciduous. Petals 5, orbicular, spreading, longer than the calyx-lobes. Stamens 
much longer than the petals, indefinite, usually in several series, free or very 
rarely collected in clusters or very shortly united opposite the petals, or all very 
shortly united in a continuous ring ; anthers versatile, the cells parallel, opening 
longitudinally. Ovary villous on the top, usually convex, with a slight depression 
round the style, 3 or 4-celled, with very numerous ovules in each cell, horizontal 
or ascending and covering a peltate placenta ; style filiform with a small terminal 
often scarcely conspicuous stigma. Fruiting-calyx more or less hardened and 
enlarged, with a truncate orifice ; capsule enclosed in and more or less adnate to 
the calyx, opening loculicidally. Seeds linear or linear-cuneate, testa thin ; 
cotyledons plano-convex, longer than the radicle. — Tall shrubs or small trees. 
Leaves scattered, terete, linear or lanceolate, entire, coriaceous, nerveless or -with 
a prominent midrib and nerve-like margins and pinnate veins. Flowers showy, 
pale yellow or crimson, in dense oblong or cylindrical spikes, at first terminal, 
but the axis very soon growing out into a leafy shoot, the lower leaves of the new 
shoot usually reduced to dry very deciduous scales, each flower closely sessile or 
slightly immersed in the woody rhachis. Bracts none or dry and deciduou^, 
rarely here and there more persistent and leaf-like. Stamens in most species J 
to lin. long or even more. 
The genus is confined to Australia. As originally observed by R. Brown, it passes gradually 
into Melaleuca , with which F. v. Mueller proposes to reunite it, the C. speciosus being, as it 
were, intermediate between the two. On the other hand, it is as closely connected with Kunzea 
through K. Baxteri (of W. Aust.), and that genus again passes into Leptospermum. Yet the 
great majority of species of each of the four groups are separated by characters so marked and 
prominent that it appears more convenient to retain the four genera as generally admitted. — Benth. 
The species of Callutemon, as thus limited, have a remarkable similarity in their floral 
characters, scarcely differing but in the breadth and consistence of their leaves and in the 
length and colour of the stamens. They might, indeed, almost be considered as varieties of 
one species. — Benth. 
