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LI. MYRTACE&. 
[Callistenwn. 
Leaves lanceolate. 
Stamens red. 
Leaves thick, penniveined, very prominent. Mower-spikes dense, large, 
usually villous. Stamens obscurely or very shortly o-adelphous . . 1. C. speciosus. 
Leaves usually penniveined. not always very prominent. Spikes glabrous 
or pubescent 
Spikes rather loose. Anthers dark coloured 2. C. lanceolatux. 
Spikes short dense. Anthers usually yellow 3.6'. coccineus. 
Stamens greenish-yellow. Spikes usually glabrous 4. C. salignus. 
Leaves pine-like. Spikes about lin. long. Stamens white or yellowish . . 5. C. pityoides. 
1. C. speciosus (beautiful), DC. Prod. iii. 224 ; Benth. FI. Amtr. iii. 119. 
A tall bushy shrub or small tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, or the young 
shoots silky-hairy. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, obtuse with a callous point, 
narrowed at the base, mostly 8 to 4in. long, penniveined, with a prominent 
midrib and nerve-like margins as in <\ lanceolatux, but much thicker and more 
rigid. Flowers large, of a rich red, in dense cylindrical spikes of 8 to 5 or even 
Gin., the rhachis and calyx usually pubescent or hirsute. Calyx-tube often 8 
lines long ; lobes 1 to 14 line diameter. Petals 2 to 3 lines. Stamens usually 
about lin. long, of a rich red, more or less distinctly collected in clusters or very 
shortly united in bundles opposite the petals. Fruiting-calyx globular, about 
8 lines diameter, with a broad open truncate orifice. Capsule usually consider- 
ably shorter. — Sehau. in PI. Preiss. i. 122 ; Metroxidernx xgecioxa, Sims, Bot. 
Mag. t. 1701 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 285; Metroxiderox glauca, Bonpl. Jard. Malm. 
86. t. 84 ; Callixteinon glaucux, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 14 ; Melaleuca pallidum, R. Br. 
in Ait. Holt. Kew ed. 2. iv. 410; DC. Prod. iii. 212, not of Schlecht. 
Hab.: Moreton Island, l)r. .Joseph Bancroft; Maroochie. J. I.oic and many others; Mac- 
pherson’s Range, II. Schneider and H. Tryon. 
The Queensland plants here placed under this species have usually been referred to C. 
lanceolatux, DC. I consider from their very different habit alone they cannot be considered as 
forms of that species, and must either be considered forms of C. speciosus, DC., or as an 
additional species. In the Moreton Bay specimens, the rhachis is glabrous ; of those from the 
North Coast Railway Line and Macpherson Range, the rhachis is hairy, and the leaves more 
prominently punctate. The plants have an erect growth seldom over 3 or 4ft. high, with some- 
times a few erect branches, and are never found out of swamps. 
2. C. lanceolatus (lance-like), DC. Prod. iii. 228; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 
120. “ Marum,” Nerang, Schneider. Usually a tall shrub, but some- 
times low and bushy and at others attaining 30ft., the young shoots 
silky or loosely hairy and the inflorescence usually pubescent, other- 
wise glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, variable in breadth, usually acute 
and l.j to 2in. long but varying from 1 to 3in., rather rigid, more or 
less penniveined, the margins often nerve-like. Flower-spikes 2 to lin. long, 
not very dense, the rhachis and calyxes pubescent hirsute or rarely glabrous ; 
occasionally, especially in cultivation, the flowers are more distant and a few of 
them in the axils of leaf-like bracts. Calyx-tube usually about 2 lines long ; 
lobes broad and very obtuse. Petals greenish or reddish, from 14 to nearly 3 
lines diameter. Stamens red, in some specimens deeply coloured and lin. long, 
in others much paler, more slender and scarcely above -|in., quite free or very 
shortly united in a ring at the base. Fruiting-calyx not much enlarged, the 
truncate orifice usually open.— -F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 58; Metrosiderox lanceolata, 
Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 272 ; M. citrina, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 260 ; M. 
lophantha, Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 69 ; M. marginata, Cav. Ic. iv. 18. t. 332 ; 
C’allistemon marginatus, DC. Prod. iii. 224 ; C. xcaber, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1288 ; 
M. nigulosa, Sieb. PI. Exs. n. 321, but perhaps not of Willd.; M. xemperflorens, 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 523. 
Hab : Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay. Fraser. II'. Hill, and others ; 
Burdekin River, F. v. Mueller; Bowen River. Bowman ; Edgecombe Bay, DaHacky : Condamine 
