| Buealyptus.} XLVIII. MYRTACE®. 223 
well as from Æ. bicolor and its allies, Æ. crebra is readily distinguished both by the venation 
and the anthers. 
| 44, E. brachypoda, 7urcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 21. A tall shrub 
|. or small or moderate-sized tree, the bark varying from smooth and whitjsh 
. lo dark and rugged, persistent or shed in large patches (Oldfield), dark and 
E x on the trunk, smooth whitish and deciduous on the b 
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obtuse acute or acuminate and attaining 6 to 8 in., more or less pale or glau- 
spicuous when the leaf is thick, the marginal one near or close to the edge. 
obtuse, not longer than the calyx-tube. Stamens 1 to 2 lines long, inflected 
in the bud; anthers very small, globular, with distinct parallel cells. Ovary 
ruit almost hemispherical, rarely 2 lines diameter, 
the orifice open or almost dilated, the rim narrow, the capsule slightly sunk, 
t very convex in the centre, the valves protruding when open.— Z. drevi- 
folia, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 84; E microtheca, F. Muell. in Journ. 
Linu. Soe, ii. 87, 
“Bo Australia, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; table land of the upper Victoria river, 
F E also in the scrub between Flinders and Albert rivers, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
'"w atr Macdonnell Ranges, M‘Douall Stuart's Expedition. e "m 
Wale Between the Darling river and Barrier range, Victorian Expedition. 
S. A Cooper’ itt. ZO 
per's Creek, Howitt’s Expedition. : : 
WA 3 mmond, 4th Coll. n.73. Wet places near the Murchison river, 
mong flooded gums, called « olaille,” Oldfield, who remarks on the variability of the 
bark, but there a 
Ppears to be some confusion in his notes. 
With the habit and inflorescence of Æ. crebra, this species differs from all others of the 
in the very open fruit with exserted valves. 
dra, F Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 97. A tall 
— Fnit stamens with minute globose anthers remaining about the orifice. 
E al sun te globose, scarcely more than 1 line long, the rim thin, the cap- 
E : ciui Australia, Rocky declivities of the Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller. The speci- 
S Preserved are very fragmentary. ao 
m rue V, NonMALEs.— Stamens all perfect; anthers oblong-ovate or nearly 
tontion, the cells perfectly distinct, parallel, and opening longitudinally, either 
connective with the connective-gland behind them or back to back with the 
"e between them. : 
3 SUBSERIES I. SusszssrtEs.— Flowers axillary or lateral, usually large, 
ingly E 2 or 8 together, sessile or nearly so on the stem, or on an exceeds, 
Sort terete or angular peduncle. 
