186 XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. 
through every gradation from that to numerous parallel diverging or trans 
verse ee? always converging into an igiene vein, either close to or 
m 
rarely SC prominent, and scarcely any when p rimary veins are closely 
parallel. Flowers large or small, in umbels or 
rarely reduced to a single sessile flower, the peduneles in most spen solitary 
and axillary or lateral (by the abortion of the floral leaves) either a 
of the year’s shoot below the leaves or at the end of the older d above 
them. Bracts and bracteoles cw ME so early deciduous as only to have ` 
been observed in a very few specie 
th the exception of two species extending to Timor, 
Wit 
single somewhat doubtful species from the India n Arehipel 
lian, where they constitute a large portion of the forest vegetat Their size and abun 
obstacles. The ext penn vc differenc T ge foliage o of 
of their growth a dd n o the ordin d ar —G 
varieties, ibt es, or "€ one into ces ee ,8 considerable porti 
barium specimens have been gathered to illustrate ‘polation of woods b 
wi ta 
h er ade 
eomparative length of th Steg ulum and calyx-tube she indefinite for practical use 
he bark, o value 
Mueller has propa kirii founded on the nature Sg 
am totally unable to judge, nor have I any means of availing myself of them, for 
mens s themselves writ Bags the enin ier a and a arge proportion of them are eii 
by an e from vari 
calyx. It mus 
these Wiën e? distinct ari the ey may $t ed species, pass ver radually int 
E 
2 
> 
E 
[ri 
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ee 
Gë 
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intermediate forms, but ri 
species. 
on e required on some of en Ga or characters ht. I nave made : 
qui 
r neglected in the specific ët 
og: have rang it pen useless to describe the Dome me — or angular, 
eth 
those species such as E. pruinosa, E. tetragona, E. tetra 
often so prominent as ie Ki ES transformed into ER Ka occur r branches, 
he same Up qui 
"T size, and Maite. of the leaves described has always been taken from. et or 
the fest: branche sof what have been supposed to be adult trees or shrubs ; S 
[ Eucalyptus. 
ermediate reticulate veinlets 
heads, usually pedun 
and two or three or perhaps ome 
go, pas bes are all Anse y 
md species AN 
the 
., where the angles i 
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