PLATE CC.
M E L A L E U C A H Y P E R I C I F O L I A.
St. Johns-wort-leaved Melaleuca.
CLASS XVIII. ORDER IV.
POLYADELPHIA POLY A NDRIA. Threads in many Sets. Many Chives.
i AL YX quinquefidus, fe mi Tupe rus. Peíala quinqué.
Filamenta multa, longiflima, connata
in quinqué corpora. Piíiillum unum. Capfula
tril ocularis.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
C U P five-cleft, half above. Petals five. Threads
numerous, very long,united into five bodies.
Poinlal one. Capfule three-celled.
See M E L A L E U C A E R I C / E P O L I A , PI. CLXXV. Vol. H I .
E C I F I C CHARACTt
Melaleuca folds oppoiuis, cliptico-oblongis, uni- i Melaleuca with oppofite leaves, eliptic-oblong,
nerviis; floribus eonfertis; filamentis Ion- one-nerved; flowerscluftered; threadsvery
"•iflimis, linearibus, apice radiaio-multifidis. [ long, linear, rayed and many-cleft at the top.
REFERENCE TO T H E P L A T E .
1. A flower, natural (ize.
'2. One o f the five bundles of Chives, with its petal, to which it is attached at the bafe,
magnified
3. The cup, feed-bud, fliaft and fummit, natural fize, the fummlt detached and magnified.
Ar.our the year 1792 this plant was firft raífed from feeds, by the late Mr. W i l l i am Malcolm,
Nnrferyman, at Stockwell, Surry; and was, from the very great refemblancc it bears to the St. John'sworts,
lu denominated, until it flowered. It has now become one o f the commoneft, of what arc
generally t i n n e d , llotany Bay plants; yet onquellionably ranks with the handfomefl whether for its
foliage, lorm of growth, or flowe-s, whit h are of I molt beautiful red-purple, fcarcily to be imitated
in painting. The Angular manner in which the flower-ftem is thrown out, as it were, from the o ld
wood, in a horizontal direction, is common to many oilier fptcies of the Genus. It grows to the height
of four or five feet, very erect in r- very part; is eafily incrtafed by cuttings, and thrives befl in peal
Birth. Although it is laid to grow in fwampy grounds in N e w South Wales, l e e Linnaan Trantactions.
Vol. 111. p. 270, ntverthclcfs, with us, a dry, or damp lituation in the green-houfe, appears equally
congenial to it. In the month of September 179£b our drawing was taken at the Confeivatory of
R, James, Efq. Grofveuor Place.
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