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Read July 7, 1801.
SINCE the publication of a paper in the third volume of the Linnean Society's Transactions, the aim of which was to fix the botanical characters of several genera and species of the natural order of Myrti, hitherto not well determined; I have become acquainted with a few more of the same tribe, four of which it is my design to describe at present. The number might appear too inconsiderable to be the subject of a paper, nor should I, scarcely, have offered them in this form to the Society, were it not as a kind of necessary supplement to the former treatise; and had I not a few particular observations to propose respecting one of the plants.
A single specimen of this new species oi Leptospermum, gathered by Dr. White in New South Wales, has been communicated to me by A. B. Lambert, Esq. It is much larger than any other I have seen of the genus, especially the leaves, which are above an inch long, and near a quarter of an inch broad. Their form is lanceolate, tapering more towards the base than towards the extremity, and they are tipped with a small prominent, sharp point; their margin is en-
