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Bcntham then described it in 1866 : 
A tall shrub or small tree attaining sometimes 30 to 40 feet, and often undistingui.^hablc in foliago 
and inflorescence from C. lanceolatits ; the leaves are, however, usually more acute, more distinctly penni- 
veincd, and the nerve-like margins often more prominent; in some forms, however, the venation is, on 
the contrary, more obscure. 
Spikes in the common form glabrous, more rarely the rhachis and calyces pubescent or villous. 
Floteers generally rather smaller than in C. lanceolatus, the calyx-lobes more ovate. 
Stamens pale yellow or rarely light pink, usually rather under J in. long. 
Fntiti'ng-calyx and capsule as in C. lanceolatus. (B. Fl. iii, 120). 
Mr. E. Cheel has re-described it from Port Jackson specimens as follows : 
A small tree with papery bark and flexile branches, with a more or less drooping habit. 
Leaves lanceolate, much narrowed towards the base, two to three inches long, and a quarter or 
rarely exceeding half an inch broad, pubescent when young, which is of a rufous colour, but 
quite glabrous when mature. Venation rather prominent at all stages, but more so in dried 
specimens, the lateral veins running somewhat obliquely to the marginal nerves. 
Oil glands somewhat obscure on the upper and lower surface of the leaves, but if held up to the 
light are seen to be very numerous. 
Flower-spike usually about one to two inches long, -mostly glabrous. 
Bracts ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, from 2J-5J lines long and J-1J lines broad, pale-green at first but 
with age becoming brownish in colour, especially at the tips, faintly striated, deciduous. 
Calyx-tube semi-ovate to sub-cylindrical, glabrous, or nearly so, lobes very deciduous. 
Petals semi-ovate, rarely exceeding f-1 line in length, and of a pale-greenish or pallid colour. 
Stamens pale or creamy-yellow colour, slightly over half an inch long. Anthers slightly darker in 
colour than the filaments. 
Fruits nearly globular in general outline with a slightly contracted orifice, about 2-2J lines in 
diameter. 
Botanical Name. Callistemon, already explained (see Part LXI, p. 17) ; 
salignus, Latin, of or belonging to the Willow, hence Willow-like, which refers to the 
shape and droop of the leaves. 
Vernacular Name. It is one of the " Paper-barks " or " Paper-bark Tea- 
trees," because of the papery or lamellar bark. Woolls (Flora of Australia, p. 91 ) calls 
it " Broad-leaved Tea-tree," but there are Mdaleucas to whom this name is more fitly 
applied. 
Aboriginal Name.- ' Bood-joong " of the aborigines of the counties of 
Cumberland and Camden, New South Wales (Macarthur), " Unoyie " of those of the 
Clarence and Richmond (C. Moore). 
Synonyms. Metrosideros saligna, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, 272 ; Vent. Jard. 
Ids. t. 70; Bonpl. PI. Malm, t.4; Bot. Mag. t. 1821; Metrosideros pallida, Bonpl. 
PI. Malm. 101, t. 41; Callistemon pallidusDC. Prod, iii, 223; C. lophanthus, Lodd 
Bot. Cab. t. 1302 (B. FL iii, 121). 
