Tualyptus.] ^ XLVII. MYRTACEX. 221 
bular-truncate, 2 - nearly 3 lines diameter, more or less contracted at the 
orifice, the rim thin, the capsule nearly on a level € it and the valves 
sight protruding or more sunk with the valves inclu 
ensland. Da awson, avah rt, and Burnett rivers, F. hub ler; Moreton Bay, 
E Tron-bark,” C. Moore; summit of the Leichhardt rech "7 Tron-bark,” 
On the eier Mitchell; also n. 6 of the N. S. Wales woods of the 
es, ion, 1855, C. Moore; Cassilis, * Iron Au rk,” Leichhardt 
species is ve ry nearly allied t o E. er d may prove to be an opposite-leaved 
state of the form described as the * Ma ack ver nra ^w *? Tt sometimes resembles 
E. cinerea, but differs in the bark, the gesetz wé the 
40. E. drepan ophylla, F. Muell. seg ae tree, usually low and 
stunted, the bark dark-grey and ribbed (Dallachy). Leaves long-lanceolate, 
n exceeding 6 in. and usually faleate, acuminate, with numerous fine 
parallel and very "Se veins, often scarcely conspicuous, the intra- 
one close to or very near the edge. Umbels 3- to 6-flowered, 
usually 3 or 4 together in short axillary or terminal panicles or the lower 
conical or obtuse, usually about as afr ‘as the c et tube. Stamens about 
3 lines long, inflected in the bud; anthers very den nearly globular, with 
distinet parallel cells. Fruit subglobose-truncate, ut 4 lines diameter, 
‘lightly contracted at the orifice, the rim rather GH the capsule somewhat 
sunk, but convex, so pe y valves oñen slightly protrude. 
tralia. Gr A. Cun 
y Queensland. E. c PT toe Ge Bay and Shoalwater r Bay, R. Brow 
urdeki Sëtzen, Fitzalan; Port Denison, *Iron-bark tree," Fitzalan, DUM; 
ron 
and Species differs from E. c chiefly in large e flow ers and in the larger, harder, 
to thick A ee fruit. From * leptophleba vy is chiefly distinguished by the leaves not 
d oblique veins. It is not. impossible, Penis y that E. melanophloia. 
3 Happ T eiert, leptophleba, and crebra, all of them Tron- socks avis be but 
; e E. trachyphlo oia, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 90. A mode- 
— e ted tree, with a dark grey rugged bark, persistent. Leaves long-lan- 
EN often falcate, 4 to 6 in. long, with very numerous fine parallel simos 
` tres Ke the marginal one close to or very near the edge. owers 
mt een uiting-umbels several together Ze terminal panicles or in the 
A Ech, zen with 3 to 6 pedicellate fru Fruit ovoid-truncate, con-, 
: d d towards the SEH about 3 lines 5 the rim thin, the capsule 
eeply sunk, 
Deg the d. Burnett river, F. Mueller. The specimens are in fruit only, and the 
species are therefore very doubtful 
i E. leptophleba, F. Muell. in OUS: Linn. Soc. ii A mode- 
nle-sized or gen tree, with, a dark persistent rugged e of ‘which only 
i fruiting specimens have been preser rved. These appear to me 
er but slightly from Æ. crebra, in the leaves rather thicker and broader, 
^ the fruits much larger, attaining 4 lines diameter c or rather more. 
d. Gilbert river, F, Mueller : 
et crebra, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 87. A small middle- 
