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This is figured as C. paludosus F.v.M., and a full account given in my " Illustrations 
of New South Wales Plants," Part iii, Plate 24. It extends from South Australia 
and Victoria, over the greater part of New South Wales, at least as far north as the 
Clarence. 
2. var. hebestachyus. Leaves rather small. Calyx and rhachis pubescent or villous. C. lophanthus 
Sweet Fl. Austral, t. 29, but not the syn. of Veiitenat quoted. Victoria and Tasmania. 
C. leptostachyus Sweet Fl. Austral, under n. 29, is probably a weak form of the same variety 
(B. Fl. iii, 121). 
Then we have 
Melaleuca pityoides F. Mueli. Herb., from Buffalo Range, enumerated doubtfully under 
Callistemon by Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, iv, 142, must remain uncertain until the flowers are known. 
F. Mueller, Fragm. iv, 54, refers it to C. saligna, but the leaves are semi-terete and pungent as in 
Melaleuca nodosa and M. pungens ; the fruits, which may be those of Melaleuca or of a Callistemon, form 
a dense cylindrical spike of about 1 inch. (loc. cit.) 
This is at least in part identical with C. Sieberi DC. (C. salignus DC.) var. Sieberi 
F.v.M. in Fragm. iv, 54), which is figured in my III. N.S.W. Plants, iii, Plate 25. 
Mr. E. Cheel constitutes it a variety of C. Sieberi DC., thus C. Sieberi DC., var. 
pityoides Cheel (= C. pityoides F.v.M. in Melbourne Chem. & Drugg. 1883, p. 3), which 
description is here reproduced. 
Leaves short, thinly cylindrical, somewhat awl-shaped, slightly compressed or sometimes semi- 
cylindrical, soon glabrous ; bracts lanceolate-linear or narrow, or somewhat ovate-lanceolar ; rhachis and 
often also the calyces short downy ; lobes of the calyx semi -ovate-roundish or some almost semi-orbicular, 
membranaceous, about half as long as the tube, considerably shorter than the petals, finally deciduous ; 
stamens comparatively short ; filaments pale yellowish, glabrous, about twice as long as the petals, or 
some three times as long ; anthers yellow ; style glabrous ; fruits truncate-ovate, rarely depressed-globular, 
more or less contracted at the summit ; valves silky at the surface. 
Mueller goes on to say that " In its external aspect this plant resembles more the 
larger forms of Melaleuca ericifolia than even the smaller of Callistemon salignus, to 
which he was at first inclined to refer it as a form." 
Bentham (B. Fl. iii, 121, 123) somewhat demurred at its being classed as a form 
of C. salignus, pointing to Melaleuca nodosa and M. pungens as very similar in foliage, 
and places it as a variety of C. brachyandrus. 
I have examined Mueller's type specimens, and can scarcely separate it from some of the forms 
of C. Sieberi DC. 
At first sight it appears to be a yellow-flowering form of C. brachyandrus, to which, as stated 
above, Bentham referred it, but although the leaves very closely resemble that species, it will be easily 
recognised through the absence of the narrow channel, characteristic of C. brachyandrus. The only character 
which induces me to keep this as a separate variety of C. Sieberi is the cylindrical or semi-cylindrical 
leaves. All the other characters are similar to those of C. Sieberi. (Cheel). 
Other references are Scortechini, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. , viii, 170 (1883); 
Cambage, op. cit., xxix, 692 (1904). 
