luiiiate it satisfactorily from its two predecessors : the leaves are in all my specimens either perfectly glabrous and
shining, or sometimes slightly ciliate at the ed g e s; they vary from eUiptic-oblong to narrow obovate-lanceolate, and
are shortly mucronate, pungent, and three-nerved. The flowers are larger than in L. Jlavescens, the coriaceous
bracts more persistent, and the calyces more silky. I t appears to be extremely variable in stature; Gunn’s early
notes describe it as never exceeding 3 feet or so in height, both at Rocky Cape and on the heaths between Lake
St. Clair and Maequarrie Harbour; but he afterwards found it in the latter country (at Detention Corner), 12 feet
high, and nearer Maequarrie Harbour, 6 0 -8 0 feet high, with a trunk almost ten feet in girth at three feet from
the ground. Such variations are by no means uncommon with ligneous plants in all parts o f the world, and prove
of how little value habit is in discriioiiiatiug species. Tliis is possibly Schauer’s L. glaucescens (see L. myrtifolium),
but the leaves are not at all glaucous, and the calyx-lobes are not persistent; it is more likely to be his L. pilosum,
though the leaves of my specimens are imifonnly glabrous.
m napestre (H o 5 . Leptos ok . fil. I c . PL t. i ) ; liumile, procumbens v. prostratum, ramis
e rectis glaberrimis, ramulis puberulis, foliis parvis obovato-eUipticis spathulatisve obtusis enerviis crasse
coriaceis, floribus parvis calycibus subsericeis. {Gunn, 2 9 5 .) ( T a b . X X X .)
H a b . Common on th e top s o f aU tb e mountains, elev, 3 - 5 0 0 0 fe et, F ra ze r, Lawrence, Gunn.— (FL
Jan.) {v. V.)
A small species (which I suspect will prove to be an alpine state o f L . myrlifolium), usually growing prostrate
and forming dark green masses, but occasionally erect, with more slender branches.— Everywhere glabrous, except
the pubescent branchlets. Leaves small, crowded, elliptic-obovate or spathidate, bluut, very coriaceous, nerveless,
rather concave. Flotcers smaller than in any other Tasmanian species. Calyx silky.— P l a t e XXX. Pig. 1, leaf;
2, flower; 3, the same, with petals and stamens removed; 4 , transverse section of ovary; 5, capsule; 6, vertical
section o f d itto ; 7, unripe, and 8 , ripe seeds :— all magnified.
6 . Leptospermum myrtifolium (Sieb. PL E x sic c . 3 1 4 ) ; erectuin, glaberrimum v. puberulum,
foliis p etiolulatis obovato-lanceolatis oblongis subspathulatisve apice rotundatis obtusis v. breviter acuminatis
planis coriaceis enerviis 3-nerviisve, floribus mediocribus, calycibus sericeis, capsulis late obconicis
calyce inclusis.'— B C . F ro d r . iii. 2 2 8 . L . parvifolium, Brniih, L in n . Trans, iii. 2 6 3 ; B C . I .e . iii. 2 2 8 .
L . glauce scens, Sch au e r? in L in n a a , x v . 4 2 1 . L . grandiflorum, Lodd. B o t. Cab. 5 1 4 ? Er iostemon?
trinerve, Hooh. B o t. Journ. i. 2 5 4 . {Gunn, 6 7 9 , 8 1 2 .)
H a b . N o r th e rn parts o f th e Islan d , as at ‘WoolnorLh and Rocky Cape, on sand-hills near the sea,
F ra ze r, Lavorence, Gunn.— (FL N o v .-F e b .)
D i s t r i b . South-eastern Australia. (Cultivated i n England.)
A shrub, 2 -7 feet high, usually quite glabrous, except the buds and calyx, which, as well as the foliage, arc
sometimes slightly pubescent, and, as Gunn remarks, give a glaucous hue to certain states of it, that caused liim
to doubt whether there might not be two species. This induces me to quote Schauer’s L. glaucescens, though he
describes the calyx-lobes as persistent.— Branches often veiy slender, terminal ones sometimes like whipcord,
and quite glabrous. Leaves large or small, obovate, spathulate, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, apex blunt, rounded,
or shortly acuminate, not shkring as in L. rupestre, nerveless or three-nerved. Flowers usually small in the Tasmanian
state, larger in tbe Australian; capsule more sunk in the calyx than in the preceding species.— Gunn observes
that it flowers later than any o f its congeners.
Note. Leptospermum sericeim (Lab. Nov. HoU. ii. 9. t. 147) is, according to Schauer (Plant. Preiss. i. 121),
a native o f South-west Australia, and not o f Tasmania.
Gen, V I I . E A B R IC IA , G a rtn .
Omnia Leptospe rmi, sed capsula multilocularis e t semina pauca.
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Very few species o f tliis genus are known, and they differ from Leptospermum only in the often many-celled
capsule, and fewer, larger seeds. The only Tasmanian species so closely resembles Leptospermum myrtifolium as to
require no detailed description. (Name iu honour of the great Swedish Entomologist, FabHcius.)
1 . Fabrieia lævigata (Gærtn. Eruct. i. 1 7 5 ) ; frutex glaberrimus, foliis ob ovato- v. cuneato-lanceo-
la tis ob tu sis apiculatisve.— in L in n . Trans, iii. 2 6 5 ; B C . P ro d r . iii. 2 2 9 . {Gunn, 6 8 0 .)
H a b . Common in some parts o f th e north shore o f th e Island, as at W oolnor th and along th e north-
west coast {Gu n n ), Islan d s o f Bass’ Straits {B yn o e ), g rowin g in sand near the sea.— (FL Oct.)
D i s t r i b . South-eastern Australia.
A handsome shrub, 6 -1 2 feet high, everywhere perfectly glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, very coriaceous
and shining, obovate-lanceolate, blunt or apiculate, 1 inch long or less, very varialile in breadth. Flowers axiUary,
shortly pediceUed, white ; buds pink.
Gen. V I I I . BÆ C K IA , A .
Flores axiilares, sessiles v . pedicellati. Calyc is tub u s turbinatus, cum ovario con n atu s; limbus superas
V. 4-superus, persistens, 5 -lob u s. P e ta la 5, orbiculata. S tam in a 5 - 1 0 , sæpe irregulariter in ser ta;
anthera dorso glandulifera ; filam en ta libera, brevia. Ovarium 2 -5 -lo cu la r e , lo cu lis multiovulatis. Capsula
loculicide dehiscens. Semina plurima, an gulata; testa crassa.— F rútices v . fru ticu li; foliis p a rv is, oppositis,
ex stip u la tis ; floribus s o lita r iis subumbellatisve, albis.
■e chiefly natives o f South-eastern AustraUa, where nearly 2 0 species have been discovered,
but one is also common in Eastern China and the Malayan Islands, attaining the 30th degi-ee of north latitude. I
have not adopted Schauer’s genus Euryomyrtus, which does not seem to me to be sufficiently different from
Bæckia. The genus is closely allied to Leptospermum, but differs iu the much smaUer size, usually procumbent
habit, smaU, opposite leaves, generaUy persistent, imbricate calyx-lobes, and few (five to ten) stamens, that are
often unsymmetricaUy disposed ; the seeds are angiUar, and have a tliick testa, (Named in honour o f A . Bæck, a
Swedish Physician.)
1 . Bæckia leptocaxilis (H o ok . fil. I c . Plant, t. 2 9 8 ) ; erecta, virgata, ramulis gracilibus, foliis
oppositis auguste linearibus acutis su p em e concavis subtus convexis, pedunculis ehracteolatis, pedicellis
foHo brevioribus, floribus pentandris. {Gunn, 8 1 7 .)
H a b . Abundaut on Lod d ou P lains, on the road to Maequarrie Harbour, and in marshy places a t the
top o f Rocky Cape, growing in both cases w ith Leptospermum n itidum , Gunn.— (FL F eb ., March.)
A very graceful and pretty species.— woody and stout at the very base. Branches erect, 1 -2 feet high,
very slender, straight, and sparingly divided. Leaves erect, opposite, about 4 inch long, linear, acute, concave
above. Flowers solitary or two together, smaU, white. Pedicel shorter than the leaves, without bracteoles. Stamens
five, unsymmetricaUy placed, four being in two pafts, each paft between two of the petals, and the fifth placed
on one sitle of the base of the intennediate petal.
2 . Bæckia thymifolia (Hook. fil. I c . P lan t, t. 2 8 4 A .) ; prostrata, ramulis diffusis gracilibus, foliis
lineari-oblongis linearibusve obtusis marginibus recurvis glaberrimis, pedicellis folia subæquantibus infra
medium bibracteolatis, sLaminibus 1 0 , 5 alternis paulo brevioribus, antheris dorso glandula auctis.— Euryo-
myrtus thymifolia, Schauer in L in n a a , xvii. 2 3 9 . {Gunn, 8 6 .)
H a b . Heath y flats aud stouy banks o f the N o r th and Sou th E sk Rivers, Lawrence, Gunn.— (EL
Oct., N o v .)
A very beautiful plant, from tbe abundance of its briUiantly white blossoms, forming patches several feet
broad. Eveiywhere glabrous.—Branches prostrate, slender. Leaves broader than in auy o f its Tasmanian con-
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