Lon XLVIH. MYRTACEX. [ Eucalyptus, 
- Leaves long, falcate, the veins inconspicuous or very 
oblique. Fruit narrow-obovoid, under 4 in. Peduncles 
3. £. virgata. 
Buds obovoid rn species. Leaves usually u un 
Ed a veined. Fruits about 1 in. diameter 10. E buprestium. - 
Fruit subglobose-truncate, the rim SÉ flat. Buds c 
n ud thin, or broader thick and SE 
Operculum convex or hemispherical, smooth pillo 
Lower | d n tnose of the ring branc 
opposite and co Ba th aud deciduous 5. E. Rüsdoni 
Leaves of the flowering branches Ex alternate and lanceo- 
late, oblong or linear; lower ones when opposite net 
connate. Bark of the trunk all = and p 
sisten S . B. amygdaline 
Operculum de epressed a nd ru gose. Leaves under 3 in in. long ^ E. c coccifera 
Fruit subglobose, much aet iaat af the orifice, the rim thin, 
oid. O; 
" the capsule sunk. a E? m as low: as the 
calyx-tube, Lea f-ve ns fin ne . 14. E. piperita. 
Fruit subglobose or -globose, the rim very con 
prominent. Ge ovoid or obovoid. Logg badly 
as long as or longer than the calyx-tube 
posse cen — essile. Leaves of E. pc — 
ery Uu pH 2 capitellata, 
Flower sand tri pedic ellate. "Leaves of E. obliqu Opere 
nate or conical. -— bor de: doi 
He bi a . 13. E. macrorhyncha. 
Howry. and fruit pedicellate. ' Leaves very ' thick aud rigid, e 
and often nearly straight . 12. E santalifolia. 
Leaf-veins numerous, fine and Lr (not very close). Buds 
ovoid-acuminate o r oblon Opercu as long 
the ca 
us much inflected in the bud. Leaf-veins oblique or di- 
verging, often scarcely visible on the upper surface. 
ruit u in. di ste 
s speci 
perculum about as long as the calyx-tube. Fruit contracted 
at the orifice. | Peduncles terete or nearly so . 14. E piperita, var 
Opereulum longer than the calyx-tube. Fruit straight or 
cont t he orifi 
nea Umbels m ostly in a termi- -id 
pani it-rim usvallythin aa concave 15. Æ. pilularis,var.acm ~ 
We more or less flattened. Umbels dogm axillary. f 
ly broad and ES 15. E pilularis. 
Stamens dci, but t not at all or scarcely inflected in the bud. 
Leaf-veins m more oe: ene above A in. diameter. 
Western species ping ax . 16. E. marginata. 
RIES II. Hfeterostemones.— 07/7; stamens anantherous or with small abortive 
Cem | anthers of the perfect o ones sm all, globular, or truncate, the cells contiguo™ 
opening in pores or in oblong slits, sometimes at length confluent. 
The species are all nee one only (B. = extending also into Western Australin, 
and sec salcatropiical, two only (E. hemastoma and E" mi crocorys) also tropical. bie 
tropi 
(The outer stamens appear also to be anantherous or with abortive anthers only in Rete 
virgata, Ke perhaps occasionally but only in a slight deren d in some others of ge 
Pm Ce sometimes but rarely in 27. E bicolor LEM Poranthere, but I have 
und them so in any of the other species.) 
