222 XLVIII. MYRTACER, [ Eucalyptus. 
mens, th 
parallel veins, the intramarginal one very near or close to the edge. Pe- 22 
duncles short, terete or nearly so, each with about 3 to 6 small flowers on ` 
short but distinct pedicels; umbels usually 3 or 4 together in short panicles 
either terminal or axillary, or rarel 
perfect, inflected in the bud; anthers very small and globular, like those of 
the Poranthere, but the cells distinct and opening longitudinally to the base. 
Ovary flat-topped or slightly convex in the re. Fruit obovoid-truncate, 
ot 2 lines in diameter, somewhat contracted at the orifice and often shortly `` 
attenuate at the base, the rim narrow, the capsule more or less sunk but 
the tips of the valves often protruding when open.— Metrosideros salicifolia, 
B, Soland. in Gærtn. Fruct. i. 171. t. 34. 
N. Australia. Between the Flindefs and Lynd rivers, Gulf of Carpentaria, ein | 
bark tree," F. Mueller, includiug the fruiting specimens of Z. parviflora, V. Muell., ref : 
to in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 90. F 
-Queenslan rom the Burdekin to Moreton Bay, often forming large forests, F. 
Mueller; Rockhampton, Dallachy, all under the name of “ Iron-bark.” 
N es. “Jron-bark, 
ower, 1 z 
distinguish from Z. brac ypoda ; the leaves are generally but not always thinner with SÉ 
oblique veins, and the flowers not so glaucous with the calyx less open; the Cé is, however, 
i sha i i X nél ) 
h 
E. crebra, as well as the following forms :— : moman, 
- “ Box-tree ” of the Mackenzie rive Leichhardt, also on the Suttor river, B hat 
described by both as having the bark persistent and fissured. The specimens are gree of 
glaucous, the leaves rather thin and broad and often obtuse. The flowers quite $ er? ; 
£. ege the fruit not seen. This is very probably an alternate-leaved state of 4. 
nophiord. 
2. “Gum-topped Box,” from Suttor river, Bowman, described as having the er 
rowed and persistent on the trunk, coming off in layers on the branches. Flowers E 
„crebra. Fruits of the same shape but rather larger, much smaller, however, than 2 
drepanophylla. : a 
3. Specimens from New England, C. Stuart, described as having the bark white, op 
ing in thin strips, the colour of the specimens not at all’ glaucous, and the inflo fruits — 
rather less compound, but the shape of the leaves, their venation and the flowers and ; 
those of ebra. is form appear to belon, i 
r, 
si 
is 
gracilis, Pl. Exs. n. 476, referred by De Candolle to E. hemastoma, but very 
are in young bud and in fruit. "i eid M. 
4. “Gum-tree,” from the Bris ane, eech with small globular fruits Mt 
ceo at the orifice, but no flowers ; the leaves those of the common Moreton-^ à 
crebra. ith the 
5. A specimen from the dividing range towards the Gloncester, Leichhardt, pent 
same foliage, with young buds like those of E. crebra, but with very small globular-trut® 
Es S ly contracted at the orifi 
. . arts . founded, S 
+ amygdalina, with which fruiting specimens have sometimes been con d 
