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MELALEUCA squamea. 
Scaly-branched Melaleuca. 
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POLYADELPHIA JCOSANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Myrv1 (Myrrackt). Jussicu gen. 322. Div. £ Flores in 
foliorum axillis aut in pedunculis multifloris oppositi. Folia plerumque oppo- 
sita et punctata. 
MELALEUCA. Supré vol. 2, fol. 103. 
Div. Folia alterna. 
M. squamea, foliis ovatis lanceolatis acuminatis trineryibus: novellis ramu- 
lisque villosis, capitulis globosis pubescentibus, phalangibus 5-6-(9) 
andris: unguibus petalis brevioribus. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
4, 412. 
Melaleuca squamea. Labillard. nov. holl. 2. 28. t. 168. 
Frutex erectus, subverticillato-ramosus, ramis teretibus, novellis villosis. 
Fol. tdm opposita quam sparsa, patentissima, intervallis longiora, elliptico v. 
ovato-lanceolata, cuspidato-acuminata, nervosa nervis parallelis, brevissime 
petiolata, novella villosa subtisque hirsutiora. Flores leté lilacini, bast ra- 
mulorum in capitulum subovatum v. globosum foliis floralibus brevioribus 
hirsutissimis confertis subtensum congestt, (PLE bracteaceis interstincti. Cal. 
oblongus, turbinato-campanulatus, pallide virens, sublanato-villosus, segmentis 
ovatis triangularibus erectis, intds concavis saturate viridibus. Petala corolla 
lilacina, obovata, convoluto-concava, 3-plo breviora staminibus, 2-plo lon- 
giora segmentis calycis vel magis, unguiculata, margine erosa. Phalanges 
staminei 5 lilacint, polyandri, ungue brevissimo vel subnullo: anthere lutee. 
Pistilla quanta coram habuimus abortiva v. cassa. 
This lively flowered shrub is not uncommon in our 
greenhouses, though it has not yet been represented by any 
figure from the living plant. 
A native of Van Diemen’s Island. Introduced by Mr. 
Brown in 1805. 
The specific name has been suggested by the peeling of 
the bark on the older branches of the plant in short scale- 
like strips along the intervals of the foliage. 
An upright shrub; branches produced nearly in whorls, 
round, young ones villous. Leaves both oppositely and 
scatteredly disposed, wide-spread, longer than the intervals, 
elliptically or ovately lanceolate, long taper-pointed with 
parallel nerves, very shortly petioled, new ones villous more 
shaggily so underneath. Flowers of a lively lilac-red, pro- 
duced at the base of the new branches in subovate or globular 
