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Metrosideros leptospermoides
Leaves scattered, very narrow; flowers axillary, solitary.
This is a low spreading bush, Branches with a loosish brown colored bark, Little branches very short, thickly covered with leaves. Leaves scattered, sessile, very narrow, wider upwards, but ending in a sharp point, which is a little recurved, flat on the upper side, a little convex underneath, with glandular dots. Flowers nearly sessile; floral leaves 2, opposite, very narrow, slightly ciliated at the edges, with glandular dots, Calyx smooth, glandular, teeth 5, but with a spurious 1 or 2 often intervening, partaking between the teeth and petals in habit. Petals 5, white, roundish, concave, shorter than the teeth of the calyx, dotted. Stamens numerous, filaments white, Anthers small, roundish, of a cream color. Germen with 3 or 4 cells Style cylindrical, shorter than the stamens, Summit globular depressed.
Calyx shorter than the leaves, but the stamens longer, Younger parts of the branches, covered with hairs white, Leaves sometimes slightly ciliated. When bruised of an aromatic smell.
Nov - 1802
Since I wrote the above, I find it in Leptospermum ambiguum of Dr Smith.
I found it at Sydney, at which place I have since seen large spreading bushes of it, 8 or 10 feet high.