G02 
LI. MYRTACE/E. 
[ Melaleuca . 
10. IVI. styphelioides (Styphelia-like), Sm. in Trans, [.inn. Soc. iii. 275 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 144. A tall tree, attaining sometimes 80ft., the young 
shoots and inflorescence silky-pubescent or villous, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 
alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pungent-pointed, mostly about Mn. 
long, rigid, finely striate, with many nerves. Flowers in rather dense oblong or 
cylindrical spikes, the axis growing out before the flowering is over, the floral 
leaves either like the stem ones and persistent or reduced to deciduous bracts. 
Calyx-tube ovoid, above 1 line long ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, acute or 
pungent, as long as or longer than the tube. Petals as long as the calyx-lobes, 
but very deciduous. Staminal bundles about 8 lines long, the claws not much 
longer than the calyx-lobe, each with several filaments shortly pinnate along the 
upper portion. Ovules very numerous, closely packed on a small placenta. 
Fruiting spikes often leafy, the calyxes crowned by the rigid erect lobes. — Colla, 
Hort. Ripul. App. t. 6. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller, without locality. 
11. Preissiana (after L. Preiss), Schau. in PI. Preiss. i. 143 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iii. 145. “ Moonah,” Bundaberg, Keys. A tall shrub or tree, the 
young shoots and often the inflorescence more or less pubescent or hirsute, 
becoming glabrous with age. Leaves scattered, rather crowded, erect, spreading 
or recurved, lanceolate or oblong-linear, acute or obtuse, flat thick and rigid, 
obscurely 1 or 3-nerved, rarely exceeding iin. in length. Flowers not large, 
white or yellowish, in loose oblong or cylindrical spikes, 1 to 2in. long, rarely 
terminal, the axis growing out very early into a leafy shoot, and sometimes much 
interrupted, many of the bracts then leafy like the stern-leaves ; rhachis and 
calyxes glabrous or tomentose. Calyx-tube ovoid, thick, above 1 line long ; 
lobes much shorter, ovate, often persistent. Petals about 1 line diameter or 
smaller. Staminal bundles 3 to nearly 4 lines long, the claws rather exceeding 
the petals, each with 10 to 12 or more filaments on the upper portion. Ovules 
very numerous, covering a broad peltate placenta.—.!/, pubescens, Schau. in 
Walp. Rep. ii. 928 ; 31. currifolia, Schlecht. Linnrea, xx. 654. 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
Var. leiostachya. Inflorescence quite glabrous. Leaves often smaller, narrower and more 
recurved. Ovules fewer. — .1/. parvittora , Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 8. 
12. IVI. armillaris (bracelet-like), Sm. in Trans. I. inn. Soc. iii. 277 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iii. 146. A tall glabrous shrub or sometimes a small tree, of 20 to 
30ft. Leaves scattered, crowded, narrow-linear, acute and often recurved at the 
end, mostly iin. long or rather more. Flowers almost immersed in the rhachis 
of dense or interrupted cylindrical spikes, forming the base of the previous year’s 
or of young lateral shoots. Calyx-tube about 1 line long ; lobes shorter, almost 
acute. Petals above 1 line long. Staminal bundles 3 to 4 lines long or rather 
more, each with numerous filaments pinnately arranged along the upper half. 
Ovules very numerous in each cell, covering a peltate placenta ; stigma broad. — 
DC. Prod. iii. 213 ; 31. ericcefolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 175 ; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 
76; Wendl. Coll. i. t. 29, not of Sm.; 3Ietrosideros armillaris , Gfertn. Fruct. i. 
171 t. 34 ; Cav. Ic. t. 335. 
Hab.: Queensland (without locality), F. v. M. 
13. 2VE. uncinata (hooked leaves), B. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2 iv. 414; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 150. A tall shrub, the young shoots more or less silky 
pubescent. Leaves alternate, linear-subulate, terete or rarely slightly compressed, 
smooth, sulcate or almost angular, 1 to 2in. long, with a fine recurved point, or 
rarely obtuse. Flowers small, numerous, in very dense terminal ovoid-oblong or 
almost globular heads, the axis often growing out before the flowering is over ; 
the rhachis and calyxes woolly, hirsute, or rarely quite glabrous. Calyx-tube not 
