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Tree to 40 feet high, so far as known. Branchlets sometimes upwards 

 quite membranously margined. Leaves 1 inch to 2 x /s inches long-, United 

 pedicels and flower-buds club-sliaped. Petals measuring hardly l js incb. 

 Longest stamens fully ! / 3 incb. Ovulary two-celled, with rather numerous 

 ovules. Fruit not available in a ripe State. 



In form of flowers tbis plant comes very near E. lanceolata, but not 

 in tbeir disposition, while tbe absence of petioles and the shape of tbe 

 leaves give our species already a totally different outer appearance. 



Tbe ricbness of tbe Bellenden-Ker's Ranges in peculiar plants was 

 foreseen by myself in 1855, on account of tbeir isolated high elevations ; 

 and tbe correctness of tbis anticipation was demonstrated by Mr. Sayer's 

 tnission, which — may it be said in justice to bim — drew first scientific 

 attention to tbe exuberance in tbe vegetable endemism tbere. But 

 R. Brown must have had already a presentiment of tbose plants-riches, 

 wben be induced, in 1802, Captain Flinders to bestow on yonder 

 mountains the naine of the subsequent elucidator of so rnany Iridea). 



Eugen ia hedra iophylla . 



Glabrous ; branchlets very prominently quadrangular ; leaves rather 

 large, cbartaceous, elliptic-lanceolar, gradually acuminated, with rounded 

 base ahnost sessile, their venulation faint, pinnate and immersed, their 

 punctation copious but very snbtle; flowers small. in ample brachiate 

 panicles; peduncles from decurrent prominences very quadrangular; flowers 

 frequently ternate on the ultimate peduncles ; pedicels extreinely short or 

 obliterated ; calyx hemispheric-turbiuate, slightly lobed or almost truncate ; 

 petals hardly expanding ; antbers very minute, about as long as broad ; 

 style capillary tbin ; ovulary mucli sunk; fruit quite small, almost globular, 

 one-seeded, terminated by a comparatively broad limb of tbin structure, 

 and separated from it by some constriction ; pericarp very tbin. 



Mossman's-River ; Sayer. Russell'.s-River ; Johnson. 



Among Australian congeners nearest to E. angophoroides, which is 

 now also known from Fitzroy-River and Trinity-Bay, but specifically 

 separable by larger, almost sessile leaves, not gradually narrowed into 

 tbe base, with much thinner venulation ; further, by the nearly membra- 

 nously angular brancbes of tbe infloresence, almost complete absence of 

 pedicels, less denticulated calyces broader at the base, and by the fruit, 

 even in a ripe State, being edged by a higher rim. Eugenia Ventenatii 

 is still further removed already by much larger fruits, although tbe leaf 

 venulation in that species is also very thin. Our new plant has the very 

 angular peduncles in common with E. lanceifolia, which species moreover 

 has very similar leaves, but it flowers are of larger size, tbe calyx is 

 semi-ovate and conspicuousl_y lobed, and the frnit is very much longer. 

 Notable remains also some similarity to E. eordifolia and E. Neesiand, 

 but neither of tbese has the remarkably angular brancbes and peduncles 

 of our plant, and their fruits are much larger. 



Eugen ia Johnsoni. 



Glabrous; branchlets almost cylindric ; leaves of rinn consistence, 

 mostly ovate-lanceolar, much contracted towards tbe bluut summit, 

 gradually narrowed into a conspicuous petiole, rather prominently pinmilar- 

 venulated, but with concealed punctation; peduncles slender, axillary and 

 terminal, from three- to several-flowered; bracteoles narrow, fugacious , 

 tube of the calyx smooth, passing gradually into the pedicel ; lobes four; 

 rather large, almost semi-ovate, during anthesis as long as tbe tube or 

 longer, devoid of any conspicuous membranous margin ; antbers narrow- 

 elliptic ; fruit comparatively large, one-seeded, turgid-ovate, but excavated 

 and slightly incurved four-lobed at tbe summit, its pericarp succulent, 

 outside red. 



Mount Bartle Frere, at about 4000 feet elevation ; tbere consociated 

 with Haifordia, which, wben in fruit, bears great resemblance to tbis 

 Eugenia; S. Johnson. 



A tree, known to attain a heigbt of 40 feet. Leaves seldom more 

 than 3 inches long and l 1 /- broad, but often smaller. Infloresceuce 

 2 1 /* inches or less long. Calyx before expansion clavate-ovate, lobes 



