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TRIBE II. Leptospermea. 
CHAaACTER OF THE Tribe. — Calj'X from four to six-lobecl. Petals from four to six. Stamens free, or polyadelphous. Fruit dry, many- 
celled. Seeds exarillate and exalbuminous. (G*. Don.) 
Desceiption, &c. — The plants contained in this tribe vary from small shrubs to large trees, but they are all 
natives of New Holland, and have all leaves with pellucid dots. 
GENUS IV. 
TRISTANIA R. Brown. THE TRISTANIA. 
Lin. Syst. POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-cleft. Bundles of stamens opposite the petals. Capsules three-celled, many-seeded. Flowers i, 
pedicellate. (^0. Don.) 
Description, &c. — This genus was formed from Melaleuca, and it contains several species, though most of j|| 
them are very seldom seen in collections of plants in this country. The name of Tristania alludes to the flowers L 
standing in threes. What is called the Tm’pentine Tree in New South Wales belongs to this genus. 11 
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1.— TRISTANIA NERIIFOLIA B. Br. THE OLEANDER-LEAVED TRISTANIA. | 
Synonymes. — Melaleuca neriifolia Nims ; M. salicifolia Specific Character. — Leaves opposite, lanceolate, glaucescent 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 1058; Bot. Rep., t. 485; and our beneath. Bundles of stamens triaudious or peutandrous. {G. Dm.) i 
fig. 3, in PI. 29, under the name of Melaleuca nenifolia. | 
Description, &c — This plant, when discovered by the first settlers in New South Wales, was called by them 
the Tea tree, because the leaves tasted bitter and astringent, somewhat like those of the black tea. It was at first 
included by botanists in the genus Melaleuca ; but it has since been veiy properly separated from that genus, as 
it differs not only in some points of botanical construction, but in general appearance, habit of growth, and 
medicinal properties. The species in its native country is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, but in Great Britain it ||l 
forms only a moderate-sized shimb. It was introduced in 1804. 
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OTHER SPECIES OF TRISTANIA. ' 
TRISTANIA MACROPHYLLA Cwm. j| 
A large handsome plant, with laurel-like leaves, and white flowers. In Australia it forms a tree sixty feet | 
high, losing the exterior of its bark in the same way as Arbutus Andrachne. It was hitroduced in 1825. 
GENUS V. 
BEAUFORTIA R. Br. THE BEAUFORTIA. 
Lin. Sijst. POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Generic Character. — Tube of the calyx turbinate ; limb five- deciduous. Style filiform. Capsule corticate, incrusted to the tube 
parted; lobes acute. Petals five. Bundles of stamens five, opposite of the calyx, three-celled ; cells one-seeded. {0. Don.) 
tlie petals. Anthers inserted by the base, bifid at the apex ; lobes 
Description, &c. — This genus was named in honour of the Duchess of Beaufort, a great patroness of eveiything 
connected with floriculture and botapy during a great part of the last centmy. Three or four species- have been 
described, but only one, or, at most, two are in cultivation in this countiy. 
