206 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Lucalyptus, 
1. diameter when full grown, but — apparently ripe when much 
smaller, thick and hard, the orifice much contracted, the rim narrow, the cap- 
sule sunk. Perfect seeds very few, large, Ser es shaped, the acute 
edge kees aes into a narrow wing. 
W.A ,; Drummond, 3rd Coll. Suppl. n. 12; on tin S. of Kojonerup, 
ch : Peay - River, te the flowers always swarming with a species of Buprestis, 
_ il. E. capitellata, Sm. Bot. Nov. Holl. 42, and in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
i. 285. A moderate-sized or large tree, with a dark-grey rud Ka 
flack CF. Mueller). Leaves from ovate- lanceolate to long-lanceola 
very oblique and falcate, and about 3 to 6 in. long, very thick A m 
with the blue venation of E obliqua. Peduncles axillary or lateral, usually 
thick and angular, with about 5 to 10 sessile flowers. Buds oblo ng-clavate 
or almost ovoid. Calyx-tube turbinate, eee about 3 lines diameter, and 
rather more in length. Operculum thick, v v obtuse, and pe as long as 
the calyx-tube, or Tather longer and o Eh conical. Stamens 2 to 3 lines 
long, all perfect ; anthers with divergent cells, confluent at the apex. Ovary 
flat-topped. Fruit depressed-globose, 4 to 5 lines diameter, the broad rim 
convex and often very prominent, the valves of the capsule usually protruding 
beyond it—DC. Prod. iii. 218; E piperita, Sm. in White s Voy. 226, with 
a fig. of leaves and fruit, but not the one described in Trans. Linn. Soc.; E 
piperita, Reichb. Ic. et eas Pl. t. 42 (from the figure and description). 
N. S. Wal Port Jackson, R. Brown ; “ Peppermint-tree ? ura. White ; North 
shore, Woolls (wi ith E nins and a Ste: Ee, GE m); N. S. Wales, "7 Stringy- 
Bark," €. Moo, d o vai A. Blue Mountains, Wilh 
y hills, ems geg er t Em, Vincent’ d F. Mue 
ri ia. og es short, obliquel i traight, the 
im ie, duous E cse ves obliquely ovate, -very thick and much more straig 
Vi 
He seg ear Portland, apia Possibly a sessile-flowered of E. 
santalifolia, but the form of the is more that of E capitellata, and a em 
from that of E santal; folia, var. Baa 
F. Mu ell. in Trans. Fiet. Inst. i A large 
Leaves oblong ` ër Geier A acute or acuminate, mo ander 3 in., ,m 
often nearly straight, very thick and Get, scarcely showing the obli ique 
veins.  Peduneles axillary or lateral, short, terete or nearly so, each earing 
s 
and open, above 2 lines diameter. 
3 lines long; anthers reniform with divereine confluent cells. Fruit nearly 
globular, about 2 in. diameter, UM atrai at ‘the orifice, the rim 
road, convex, and prominent, the capsule on a level with it, the valves 
m horizontal.— Z. santalifolia, var. firma, Mia; in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 
iv. 
^15 RN Hills near Guichen Bay, Marble ran e and Venus Bay, F. Mueller 
(Herb. P. Mueller and Herb. Sonder. )—Thic is now Lad Ae F. Mueller to a form of 
