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No. 231. 
Callistemon brachyandms Lindley. 
(Family MYRTACE^E.) 
Itotanical Description. Genus Callistemon. (See Part LXI. p. 15). 
Botanical Description. Species, brachyandrus Lindley in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond., 
iv, p. 112 (1849) [fig. p. 113]. 
Following is the original description : 
Ram s teretibus pubescentibus, foliis linearibus pungentibus caualiculatis eneiviis, calyce 
tomentoso, petalis inaequalibus pubescentibus staminibus sanguineis duplo brevloribus. 
This is preceded by a statement in English : 
A stiff bush, with the habit of other species of the genus, but with deep-green, narrow, pungent, 
channelled leaves having conspicuous dots on the underside, and no veins. 
The spikes of flowers are loose, and not more than 2 inches long, with very downy calyces, the 
number of whose divisions varies from 5 to 6. The petals are dirty white, short, downy, concave, and 
inconspicuous. 
The stamens are deep rich crimson, not more than twice as long as the petals, and quite straight, 
the anthers are of a bright golden yellow, and form a beautiful contrast. The shortness of the stamens is a 
striking feature of the species. 
In 1864 Mueller, Fraym. iv, 52, redescribed it in Latin, giving the range as dry 
country near the Murray and Darling, and towards the Barrier Range. He quotes 
Flore des Serves v, 4507 (which I have not seen). Walpers' Ann. Bot., iii, 891 (1853), 
simply copies the original description. 
It was subsequently described in B. Fl., iii, 122, as follows : 
A tall stiff bushy shrub or small tree, the young shoots softly hairy, and sometimes soft loose 
spreading hairs persistent on the older branches and foliage. 
Leaves linear-subulate, terete and channelled above, rigid ar.d pungent-pointed, mostly f to \\ inch 
long. 
Spikes loose ar.d interrupted or sometimw dense, rarely 2 inches long, the rhachis and calyces 
loosely hairy. 
Calyx-tube broadly campanulate, 1 to 1$ linen long; lobes broad, ciliate, more or less scarious. 
Petals about 1| lines diameter, glabrous or pubescent. 
Stamens quite free and scarcely above 4 lines long ; filaments deep red ; anthers yellow or pale. 
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