303m. 
CALLISTEMON rigidun. 
Stiff-leaved Callistemon. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. Myrrt.. Jussieu gen. 322, Div. I. : 
: Myrracez. Brown in app. to Flind, voy. 2, 546. 
CALLISTEMON. Stamina (numerosa): filamentis distinctis, elon- 
gatis ; antheris incumbentibus. Capsula trilocularis, polysperma, connata et 
inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown MSS. 
. Div. Filamentis puniceis. 
CALtistemon rigidum, foliis linearibus  (lanceolato-linearibusve) | planis 
acutissimis, mucronatis levibus, ovariis pubescentibus, capsulis distinctis. 
Brown MSS. ; 
Metrosideros linearis. Willd. enum. 513; (non verd MeTRosIDEROS linearis 
ejusd. sp. pl. 2. 955). . ; 
A genus first proposed by Mr. Brown to be detached 
from Merrosiperos, in his general remarks on the Botany 
of New Holland, and now defined from his manuscripts, 
which were communicated with the same liberality we have | 
ever experienced from that gentleman. 
Ca.uistEMoN is at present constituted by about 10 or 
11 australasian species; and consists of 2 sections; one 
distinguished by crimson filaments, the other by yellow. 
Our shrub is native of New Holland.. 
- We cannot do better, for our readers, than extract the 
remarks of Mr. Brown on the natural order to which the 
plant belongs. r19'l 
“ MYRTACE/E. This is one of the most extensive 
“tribes in Terra Australis, in which above 200 species have 
“ been already observed, and where the order is also more 
“ strikingly modified than in any other. part of the world. 
“ Tt is very generally spread over the whole of Australia, but 
“ its maximum appears to be in the principal parallel. 
“: Of Eucatyprus alone nearly 100 species have been al- 
‘ready observed, most of these of trees, many of them of 
“ great and some of enormous dimensions. - Kucatyprus 
« slobulus of Labillardigre and another species peculiar to 
“the south end of Van Diemen’s Island, not unfrequently 
< attain the height of 150 feet, with a girth near the base of 
- “ from 25 to 40 feet. In the colony of Port Jackson there 
“ are also several species of great size, but none equal to 
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