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f Petals attached by a broad base, distinct or consolidated into an operculum. 
.. Stamens indefinite, in several series, free or obscurely united into 4 bundles ; 
_ anthers various. Ovules indefinite in each cell. Embryo with the cotyledons 
- longer than the radicle and often folded over it. 
a 29, ANGOPHORA, Cav. ; 
~ Calyx-tube turbinate-campanulate, adnate to the ovary at the base, the free 
part broad and open, 5-angled, truncate, with 5 small distinct teeth. Petals 
ep OE Sa ee A 
adnate to the hardened truncate persistent calyx-tube, opening loculicidally 
M3 or 4 valves. Perfect seeds (where known) 1 in each cell, large, broad, 
very flat, peltately attached on the inner face; testa thin; embryo straight; 
. “tyledons thin, flat, or folded over each other at the edge, deeply cordate, 
tadicle slightly clavate, scarcely protruding beyond the lobes of the coty- 
ons.—Trees or shrubs, usually glaucous, pubescent or hispid with EE 
Leaves opposite or here and there alternate, coriaceous, penniveined. ` 
n umbel-like cymes arranged in terminal corymbs. Bracts exceed- 
uous, ; 
genus is limited to Eastern Australia. It is very nearly allied to Eucalyptus, the 
similarly truncate at the base, but not connate, and the calyx-teeth although small are 
tus. 
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a ucalyp 
ves mostly or all sessile and cordate at the base. : 
smooth and deciduous, Flowers rather large, not numerous. "o 
_, Calyx-tube about 3 lines . 1, A. cordifolia. 
2. A. subvelutina. 
d E | 
ghand persistent, Flowers small and numerous. Calyx-tube i SS? 
lines lon : 8. A. intermedia. 
Bark smooth and d 
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Calyx-tube abo 
eciduous, Flowers rather lar x not ver nnmerous. 
l Kia E st > me . « . 4. A. lanceolata. 
t 3 lines ong 
dif 
or less pubescent with minute rigid hairs or glaucous, the smaller 
"Yr-tube 3 lines long and opening out nearly flat to } in. diameter. Petals 
(F acuminate, 3 to 4 lines diameter. Fruiting-calyx very hard, often 2 
jt at the top, and as much in length.—DC. Prod. fii. 222 ; Metrosi- 
"ind » Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 267, and Exot. Bot. t. 42; Bot. 
t. 1960; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 106 ; M. hirsuta, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 281; 
