224 XLVIII. MYRTACEA. Loi. 
' 46. E. macrocarpa, Hook. Ic. Pl. t: 405 do 407. A ‘stout shrub of ` 
6 to 10 ft, usually more or less mealy-white. Leaves opposite, sessile .- 
broadly cordate-ovate, acute or obtuse, often 6 in. long, or even more, very 
thick and rigid. Flowers very large, solita ary ‘on very "short thick axillary ` ` 
peduncles. E broadly hemispherical, hard and woody, smooth or — 
obscurely ribbed, about 13-in. diameter. Operculum thick and hard, "eat : 
Se or slightly e about twice as long as the calyx-tube. : 
ens abou 
hemispherical, 2 to 3 in. diameter or even more, the very broad disk Get 2 
a raised rim, and the capsule or at least the broad HR ae sl — 
farther in the centre.——Bot. Mag. t. 4333; Paxt. Mag. Bot. x with — 
a fig.; Schau. in Pl. Preiss. i. 132; F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 41. 
wW. 
era, Het dondering the Quangen plain ns, S. of Swan River, Drumm 
35, 
ond, 
13, P n. 2 cimen of Labillardiére’s, without flower or fruit, from the 
Maria fini on the S. MA appears to be the same species 
4T. ordata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 13. t. 152. A small y 3 
the barke ge described, the foliage Ee ees or mealv-white. 
EE c ECRIRE HE 
T Bay d =se 5a ver, Laid d D. Hooker. : 
expressed I di iu n that this might be the young tree of E. obliqua, the flowers, hes S 
as wellas the fruit, and especially the iR are far t sina to admit of the T 
mation e the two species without m Kate 3 H pene e. Like E. pulv verulenta, 
appears to be much more nearly allied to P cosmophyll 
48. E. pulverulenta, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2087. A small tree, the bark ` 4 
not described, the foliage more or.less glaucous or mealy-white. Lew ` 
sessile, opposite, cordate, orbieular or broadly ovate, obtuse or almost SCH SC 
always quite entire. Peduncles axillary, very short terete or angular 
cells. Fruit subglobose-truneate, not contracted at the orifice, usually 
4 lines diameter, the rim thick and convex, the capsule scarcely depressed, 
valves Ee protruding. —DC. Prod. iii. 221; Colla, Hort. Ripul ^P 
leigera, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 350; Æ. cordata, ^^^ 
* Bot. Cab, t. $28, not of Labill 
