Kunzea
(named after Gustav Kunze, 1793-1851, a botanist and physician of Leipsig). ORD. Myrtaceae. A genus comprising fifteen species of greenhouse shrubs, often Heath-like, confined to Australia. Flowers sessile, or rarely pedicellate in the upper axils, more frequently in terminal heads, rarely an oblong spike below the end of the branch. Leaves alternate, or rarely opposite, small, entire. Probably the two species described below are the only members of the genus introduced to our gardens. For culture, see Callistemon. K. Baxteri (Baxter's). fl. large, like those of a Callistemon, in dense terminal spikes; petals rich red. l. crowded, linear-oblong or lanceolate, flat, obtuse, or somewhat acute, about 1/2in. long. A rigid, minutely pubescent plant, of several feet in height. (B. R. 1838, 7, under name of Callistemon macrostachyum.) K. corifolia (Coris-leaved). fl. white, nearly sessile, solitary in the upper axils of short leafy branchlets. l. linear or linear-lanceolate, usually crowded on the branchlets or clustered in the axils, 1/4in. to 1/2in. long. A tall shrub. (L. B. C. 1998 and S. E. B. 59, under name of Leptospermum ambiguum.)