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MELALEUCA. fulgens.. 
Scarlet Melaleuca. 
POLYADELPHIA JCOSANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Mynrrt (recentitis Myrtackt.) Jussieu gen. 322. 
Div. TI, Flores in foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris op- 
positi. Folia plerumque opposita et punctata. 
MELALEUCA. Cal. turbinatus, limbo 5-fido, deciduo. Pet. 5, 
parva, summo calyei inserta, ejusdem Jaciniis alterna. Ei/. basi con- 
nata in fasciculos 5 (elongatos Brown.) sub petalis insertos; anth. ob- 
long, incumbentes. Stylus]. J ussieu I, c. 323... Caps. 3-loc., poly- 
sperma, connata et inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo.) 
Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 410. ies 
Frutices rarids arbores: flores s@piis in spicam cylindricam sum- 
mis foliis infernatem dispositi. Folia alterna, opposita ». verticillata,. 
simplicia, plerumque punctata. teed 
Div. folia opposita v. verticillata. - 
M. fulgens, foliis oppositis lanceolato-linearibus acutis uninervibus, 
spicis ovalibus glaberrimis, phalangibus (staminum) multifidis : ungui- 
bus (phalangium) longitudine petalorum. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 
ote sae * 
Arbuscula rigida, erecta, ramosa ; cortex cinnamomeo-fuscescens, exueng 
cuticulam per philyras lineares : rami ascendentes, patentes.. Folia distantins 
decussata, ascendentia, rigida, sessilia, angxsta, lanceolata, uncialia, subtits 
‘convexa viridia saturatiis -at- parce punctata, supra concava glauea sine 
punctis. Flores pro genere majusculi, ramulos aliquot novellos sparsos cum 
tpsis simul @ veteriori_et sepe defoliato ligno inferiis in caule enatos in spicam 
nudam infra folia ambientes: filamenta coccinea, subsesquiuncialia. 
A. species made known in the second edition of the 
Hortus Kewensis by Mr. Brown, who discovered it growing 
on the south coast of New Holland; and one which proves 
to be the most ornamental of any MrLatruca we possess in 
our collections. 
_, The genus belongs to the Myrtle-tribe, and naturally 
joins to Merrosiprnos; but having the filaments united in 
separate parcels, and not, as in that genus, wholly distinct 
from each other, ranks in a different class of the artificial 
system of Linnzus, 
_ Fulgens is a slender hard-wooded branching tall shrub, 
with a palish smooth bark, inclining to red in the young 
wood; in the old brown, with a cuticle which peels off in 
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