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LI. MYRTACEvE. 
[. Melaleuca . 
17. IVI. minutifolia (leaves minute), F. r. M. in Tram. l J hil. Soc. Viet. iii. 
45 ; lit nth. FI. Auatr. iii. 102. Nearly allied to M. tainariscina, but the branch- 
lets are much more slender and not excavated. Leaves opposite, scale-like, 
appressed and imbricate, almost stem-clasping and peltately attached near the 
base, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 4 to nearly 1 line long. 
Flowers small, in small ovoid terminal heads, the rhachis woolly. Calyx-tube 
broad, about 4 line long ; lobes about as long, broad, striate. Petals nearly 
1 line long. Staminal bundles about 3 lines long, tbe claws narrow, nearly twice 
as long as the petals, each with 7 to 11 filaments at the end ; anthers very small. 
Fruiting-spikes short, the calyxes globular, truncate, about 14 line long. 
Hab.: Flinders River, Bowman. 
18. IVI. foliolosa (leaves small), A. Putin. ll<rl>.: Benth. FI. Auatr. iii. 162. 
Branchlets very numerous, erect and slender, excavated for the leaves, the 
margins of the excavations forming a fringe round them. Leaves opposite, scale- 
like, broad, thick, obtuse, triquetrous, peltately attached, closely appressed and 
imbedded in the excavations, scarcely 1 line long. Flowers only seen in very 
young bud, few, in terminal heads. Calyx campanulate, with short, broad, 
striate lobes. Petals striate. Stamens in bundles of 15 to 20, the claws already 
as long as the petals. Stigma rather broad. Fruiting-calyxes few in the head or 
solitary, globular, about 2 lines diameter. 
Hab.: Cape Flinders, A. Cunningham. 
19. IVI. tamariscina (Tamarix-leaved), Hook, in Mitch. Prop. Auatr. 262 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 163. Branchlets numerous, slender and excavated for each 
leaf as in M. foliolosa, but in a rather less degree. Leaves scarcely opposite, 
scale-like, peltate and half stem-clasping, closely appressed and half immersed in 
the excavations, ovate, concave, rarely above 4 line long, the lower ones of each 
branchlet very obtuse, the upper ones often acuminate. Flowers not seen. 
Fruiting-spikes oblong or cylindrical, 4 to lin. long, the calyxes often densely 
packed, globular, about 14 line diameter. 
Hab : Belyando River. Mitchell, and other localities in the south-west. 
. 14. ANGOPHORA, Cav. 
(Goblet form of fruit.) 
Calyx-tube turbinate-campanulate, adnate to the ovary at the base, the free 
part broad and open, 5-angled, truncate, with 5 small distinct teeth. Petals 5, 
attached by their broad base, herbaceous and aristate, with- coloured margins, 
much imbricate in the bud, spreading and separately deciduous. Stamens 
numerous, free, in several series, filaments filiform ; anthers versatile, the cells 
parallel, opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, the flat summit glabrous, 3 or 
4-celled, with many ovules in each cell, ascending on a peltate placenta ; style 
subulate, with a capitate stigma. Capsule enclosed in and adnate to the hardened 
truncate persistent calyx-tube, opening loculicidally in 3 or 4 valves. Perfect 
seeds (where known) 1 in each cell, large, broad, very flat, peltately attached on 
the inner face ; testa thin ; embryo straight ; cotyledons thin, flat, or folded over- 
each other at the edge, deeply cordate, the radicle slightly clavate, scarcely pro- 
truding beyond the lobes of the cotyledons. — Trees or shrubs, usually glaucous, 
pubescent or hispid with bristly hairs. Leaves opposite or here and there alter- 
nate, coriaceous, penniveined. Flowers in umbel-like cymes arranged in terminal 
corymbs. Bracts exceedingly deciduous. 
The genus is limited to Eastern Australia. It is very nearly allied to Eucalyptus, the petals 
similarly truncate at the base, but not connate, and the calyx-teeth, although small, are more 
prominent than in any Eucalyptus . — Benth. 
