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EUCALYPTUS AMYGDALINA. ALMOND-LEAVED 
EUCALYPTUS. 
Class and Order. 
IcosanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.— Myrracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calycis tubus persistens, obovatus aut globosus, cupule- 
formis, limbus operculeformis, integer, basi circumscissa et 
regulariter dehiscens, deciduus. Pet. 0. Stam. filamenta 
numerosa, libera. Capsula 4-locularis, aut abortu trilocu- 
laris, apice dehiscens, polysperma.—Arbores (Nove Hol- 
landiea) excelse. Folia integerrima, coriacea, sepius al- 
terna, rarius opposita, interdum in iisdem individuis varia, 
paucis, exceplis glaberrima. Pedunculi axillares, breves, 
umbellam 3—5-floram gerentes. Operculum in nonnullis, 
ex cl, Brown, exterius calycinum, interius corollinum. D C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Evucatyprus amygdalina; operculo hemispherico submu- — 
tico cupula breviore, pedunculis axillaribus et latera- 
libus teretiusculis petioli longitudine, umbellis 6—8- 
floris subcapitatis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis basi attenu- 
atis apice acuminato-mucronatis. De Cand. 
Evcaryrrus amygdalina. Labill. Nov. Holl. 2. 14. t. 154. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.2.p.501. De Cand. Prodr. 3. 
219. Graham, in Edin. Phil. Journ. June, 1833. 
Merrosiveros salicifolia. Gaertner, Fruct. et. Sem. 1.171. 
t. 34. fig. 3? | 
Descr. With us a rather slender shrub. Branches pen- 
dulous. Leaves (three to four inches long) petiolate, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminato-mucronate, sometimes falcate 
woe we 
