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CALLISTEMON lophanthum. 
Crested Callistemon. 
Linnean Class and Order. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Orderw MYRTACEA. Kth. synops, 3. p- 410. 
Subordo I. MYRTEA. Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris 
oppositi. olia plerumque opposita et punctata. Kth. Ul. ¢. p. A10, 
CALLISTEMON. Stamina numerosa; filamentis distinctis, elongatis : antheris 
incumbentibus. Capsula trilocularis, polysperma, connata et inclusa calycis tubo in- 
crassata basi adnato (ramo). Brown Bot. reg. 393. 

C. lophanthum, foliis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis mucronatis uninerviis penniveniis 
adultis glabris ; junioribus ramisque villosis, floribus distinctis spicatis subtermi- 
nalibus, calycibus pilosis, petalis subpubescentibus ciliatis, ovariis dense pubes- 
centibus, capsulis distinctis, 
Metrosideros lophantha. Vent, plant. nouv. cult. jard, de Cels. p. et. t. 69. Spreng. syst. 2. 
p- 490. 
Metrosideros saligna. Sims Bot. mag.1821? nec aliorum. 

An upright bushy evergreen Shrub: branches upright, ra- 
ther slender, villosely hairy when young, which wears off by 
age, they then become smooth, and are clothed with a white 
deciduous bark, which scales off irregularly. Leaves shortish, 
rigid, lanceolate, tapering to both ends, thinly punctate, termi- 
nated by a sharp rigid mucro, 1-nerved, pinnately veined, clo- 
thed with spreading villous hairs, and fringed when young; 
afterwards becoming smooth, but slightly glaucous, or of a pale 
green colour. Petzoles short, villous when young, but becoming 
smooth by age. Mowers straw-coloured, not crowded, in a ter- 
minal spike at first, but the branch lengthens out beyond them, 
they then become lateral. Calyx tubular, bell-shaped, with 5 
membranaceous spreading segments: the tube villosely hairy, 
affixed into the branch, persistent, and increasing in size after 
the flowers have dropt, and enclosing the capsule: lacinie 
spreading, membranaceous, ovate, rounded, villous, the margins 
densely bearded. Petals 5, inserted in the calyx, on the upper 
part of the tube, ovate, concave, greenish, slightly pubescent, the 
margins fringed with long white woolly hairs. Stamens nume- 
rous, inserted in the upper part of the tube of the calyx: fila- 
ments smooth, spreading round, inserted in the back of the an- 
thers. Ovarium densely clothed with a white pubescence. Style 
smooth, about the length of the stamens. Stigma a small flat 
head. Capsule tomentose, distinctly 3-celled, and many seed- 
ed, Seeds small, chaff-like, spatulate, 
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