216 XLVIII. MYRTACER. [ Eucalyptus. 
measure with E. dico/or, but the foliage and shape of the flowers aud fruits are rather those ` 
of E. odorata. e ; ; 
Victoria. On the Yarra, F. Mueller. 
29. E 
with a smooth red or ash-grey bark, coming off in coriaceous plates (Old- 
(partly). : 
N. S. Wales. In the Euryalean scrub of the interior, Fraser ; desert of the Murray 
and Darling, Herd, F. Mueller. i 
Victoria. Wimmera and desert of the Murray, Dallachy, F. Mueller. 
. Australia. Gawler Town, Behr ; Murray desert, F. Mueller. 
Plantagenet and Stirling ranges and 
WV. Au ia. eastward"to Cape whe S 
well, Harvey, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 66 ; Murchison river, Oldfield (mostly wi 
leaves). s 
ar- 
Wr 
narrow leav E 
Var. latifolia, W. Australiag Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 76. oA La des 
Var. (? major. Flowers larger, contracted into very short thick pedicels, the € d 
more flattened. — Fruit rather larger, scarcely contracted at the orifice, the rini b i 
flatter, the valves not acuminate. —Mùrchison river, Oldfield. : d longer 
Var. rostrata. Flowers more distinctly pedicellate, the operculum acuminate RIA B 
Kar the fees hillips Range, Mazwe// ; Murchison river, Oldfield, also Drummont 
oll. n. 186. j 
; : t. 
The species has much the habit of Æ, gracilis, but is very different in stamens and Ze 
It is also sometimes very near Æ. micranthera, but differs in the stamens. The young 
as sometimes sessile ovate opposite leaves. 
2. 
reduced to a shrub. Leaves ovate-lanteolate or lanceolate, falcate or neatly 
straight, about 3 to 5 in. long, thick 1nd rigid 
"a. 
ou to 8-flowered, the umbels mostiy forming short terminal Pd " 
although the fruiting ones are usually lateral below Jeng to 
tube 2 to 21 lines long and scare. ly so much in diameter, t ng 
long as the calyx-tube or rarely shorter and more obtuse. Stamens bud; 
coloured, about 2 lines long or rather more, all perfect, inflected in He e 
anthers very small, globular, the cells distinct, but opening im pone 
than in slits. Ovary rather deep, slightly conical or convex in the 
