Melaleuca.] 
LI. MYRTACEvE. 
599 
3. IVI. acacioides (Acacia-like), F. r. M. Fragm. iii. 116; Benth. FI. Austr. 
iii. 138. A small tree, of a pale green, nearly glabrous or the young shoots and 
inflorescence pubescent. Leaves alternate, from broadly oblong and under lin. 
to lanceolate or almost linear and 2in. long, obtuse or scarcely mucronate, 
narrowed at the base, often vertical, flat, thick, faintly 3 or 5-nerved. Flowers 
small, in small dense sessile globular heads, mostly axillary or lateral, the rhachis 
and calyxes pubescent. Calyx-tube nearly globular, about f line diameter ; lobes 
short and broad. Petals about A line diameter. Staminal bundles about 3 lines 
long, the claws much longer than the petals, unequally divided at the end each 
into 5 to 7 filaments. Ovules few in each cell, rather large, erect on a short 
thick placenta. Fruiting-calyx often scarcely above 1 line diameter. 
Hab.: Islands of Torres Straits. 
Wood strong and dark-coloured. Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods Xo. 168c. 
4. IVI. symphyocarpa (the fruits connate), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. 
Viet. iii. 44 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 138. Glabrous and glaucous. Leaves alter- 
nate, oblong, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 1A to 2Ain. long, mostly vertical, flat, 
rigid, many-nerved. Flowers in dense globular lateral heads, sessile on the 
former year’s branches. Bracts shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx-tube cam- 
panulate, often angular by pressure, about 2 lines long, glabrous or pubescent ; 
lobes short, broad, orbicular. Petals rather above 1 line diameter. Staminal 
bundles 4 to 5 lines long, the claws narrow, much longer than the petals, each 
with a tuft of slender filaments at the end. Ovules rather numerous, erect on a 
short thick placenta. Fruiting-heads Ain. diameter, the fruits closely appressed 
or connate, the calyx-tube circumsciss and deciduous, leaving the adnate part 
truncate on a level with the capsule. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, K. Brown , and Torres Straits. 
Very near M. angustifolia, the veins of the leaves more numerous and slender, the inflores- 
cence mostly lateral, and the bracts smaller. — Benth. 
Wood dark-coloured, close-grained, hard, and prettily marked. Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods 
Xo. 168a. 
5. IVI. angustifolia (narrow-leaved), (iartn. Fruet. i. 172 t. 35 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 139. Glabrous or the young shoots slightly silky. Leaves alternate, 
narrow-ohlong, often narrowed at the base, mostly 1A to 2in. long, flat, often 
vertical, distinctly 5-nerved. Flowers in dense terminal globular sessile heads. 
Bracts broad, imbricate, scale-like, usually exceeding the calyx-tube and per- 
sistent. Calyx-tube broad, nearly 2 lines diameter, silky-pubescent or villous ; 
lobes short and broad. Petals 1A line diameter. Staminal bundles 4 to 5 lines 
long, the claws united in a ring at the base, narrow, exceeding the petals, each 
with a tuft of numerous short slender filaments at the end ; anthers very small. 
Ovules several in each cell, erect on a short placenta. Fruiting-heads about Ain. 
diameter, the fruits very closely appressed but scarcely connate, the calyx-tube 
circumsciss and deciduous, leaving the adnate part truncate on a level with the 
tube. — Asterom yrtus Gartneri, Schau. in Linmea, xvii. 243. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham. 
In some heads the ovary remains small and abortive ; the calyx, enlarging much after flower- 
ing, becomes broadly campanulate, bordered by the persistent hardened claws of the staminal 
bundles. — Benth. 
Gffirtner figures the seeds as winged, but it is doubtful whether he had them perfect, otherwise 
he would have seen the embryo. — Benth. 
Wood of a dark colour, hard and tough ; excellent for posts and piles. Bailey's Cat. QL Woods 
Xo. 168b. 
6. IVI. linariifolia (Toad Flax-leaved), Sin. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 278, and 
F.rot. Bot. t. 56; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 140. “ Poorga,” Bundaberg, Keys: 
“ Wooller- Wooller,” St. George, Wedd. A tall tree with slender branches, the 
bark white in papery layers, the young shoots and inflorescence usually pubescent, 
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