Melaleuca .] 
El. MYRTACE/E. 
603 
1 line long ; lobes exceedingly small and short. Staminal bundles about 2 lines 
long, the claws about as long as the petals, each with 5 to 7 filaments. Fruiting- 
spikes very dense and compact, rarely above fin. long ; the calyxes turbinate, 
truncate, about If line long. —DC. Prod. iii. 213; Schau. in PI. Preiss. i. 138 ; 
M. hamata, Field, and Gardn. Sert. PI. t. 74 ; M. Drummondii, Schau. in PI. 
Preiss. i. 138 (rather shorter-leaved specimens) ; M. semiteres, Schau. l.c. 143 
(leaves longer, not hooked). 
Hab.: Queensland (without locality), F. v. M. 
14. IVI. hakeoides (Hakea-like), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 151. 
A tall shrub, the young shoots softly silky-pubescent and somewhat silvery, the 
older foliage glabrous. Leaves alternate, linear-subulate, terete or slightly com- 
pressed, usually sulcate, obtuse or acute, 1 to 2in. long, the point straight. 
Flowers small, in dense globular or rarely ovoid terminal heads, the rhachis and 
calyxes usually villous. Calyx-tube about f line long ; lobes very small. Petals 
scarcely 1 line diameter. Staminal bundles not 2 lines long, the claws short, 
each with 3 to 7 filaments. Ovules few in each cell, erect ; stigma slightly 
dilated. Fruiting-spikes very dense, globular or ovoid, the calyxes truncate, 
about 1 line diameter. 
Hab.: Towards Cooper’s Creek. 
15. IVI. nodosa (flowers in knots), Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 276, and 
Kxot. Bot. t. 35 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 158. A tall shrub or small tree. Leaves 
alternate, linear or subulate, rigid, pungent-pointed, mostly f- to fin., or on 
luxuriant shoots nearly lin. long. Flowers in small dense globular or rarely 
ovoid axillary or terminal heads, the axis not growing out until after flowering, 
the rhachis tomentose. Calyx-tube broadly campanulate, about f line long ; 
lobes much shorter, obtuse and petal-like. Petals about as long as the calyx- 
lobes. Staminal bundles about 3 lines long, the claws about as long as the petals, 
with 3 to 6 or rarely more filaments at the end. Ovules not very numerous, erect 
on a small placenta. Fruiting-heads very dense, globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter, 
the calyxes truncate. — DC. Prod. iii. 213; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 112 ; Metrosideros 
nodosa, Gsertn. Fruct. i. 172 t. 34 ; Cav. Ic. iv. t. 334 ; Melaleuca juniperina , 
Sieb.; Reichb. Iconogr. Exot. ii. 4 t. 112; M. juniper oides, DC. Prod. iii. 213; 
Metrosideros juniperina, and M. p ungens, Reichb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 194. 
Hab.: Common in southern localities. 
16. IVI. ericifolia (Heath-leaved), Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 276, and 
Exot. Bot. t. 34; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 159. A shrub or tree, attaining sometimes a 
considerable height, usually glabrous and often glaucous, with virgate branchlets. 
Leaves scattered, numerous, often recurved, narrow-linear, semiterete or convex 
underneath, obtuse or scarcely acute, rarely above fin. long. Flowers yellowish- 
white or rarely red, not large (the males ?) in ovoid or nearly globular terminal 
heads, or the perfect ones in oblong and cylindrical spikes of f to lin., with the 
axis soon growing out into a leafy branch, the rhachis tomentose. Calyx 
glabrous or nearly so, short, broad, with short, broad, obtuse, herbaceous lobes. 
Petals above 1 line long. Staminal bundles 3 to 4 lines long, the claws exceed- 
ing the petals, each with about 7 filaments at the end. Ovules rather numerous 
in each cell, on a short peltate placenta. Fruiting spikes compact ; calyxes 
truncate. — DC. Prod. iii. 213; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 129; M. nodosa, Sieb. PI. 
Exs., not of Sm.; M. Gunniana, Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii. 928 ; M. heliophila, 
F. v. M.; Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 120 (from the character given). 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
Var. erubescems. Flowers red. Stamens usually more numerous. .1/. erubescent, Otto, Hort. 
Berol. 37, according to DC. Prod. i. 214. M. diosmifolia, Dum. Corns, according to DC. l.c. 
