226 XLVIII. MYRTACEJE. [Eucalyptia, 1 
a distance from the edge.  Peduncles "M" or lateral, short and thick, - 
sometimes scarcely any, each with 3 rather large flowers, sessile or the cens 
scarcely shorter than the calyx-tube. Stamens 4 to 6 lines long, inflected in — 
the bud; anthers rather small but ovate, with distinct parallel cells. Ovary — 
flat- topped id slightly convex in the'centre. Fruit subglobose-truncate, not — 
contracted at the orifice, hard and smooth, 7 to 8 lines diameter, the rim — 
i be: slightly convex, eg ir^ sunk, the valves not protruding.— 
n Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 134. 
Ss. deg Bugle and Se Ranges, F. Mueller ; Kangaroo island, Waterkant; 
Encounter Bay, Whittaker. 
Supserizs I. Recurve#.—Flowers axillary or lateral, often : 
sually 3 or rarely 5 together, pedicellate on a recurve ed terete peduncle. ` 
Calyx-tube turbinate or urceolate. Leaves alternate, thick. : 
: 
: 
52. E. pyriformis, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 22. A shrub at- ; 
taining 8 to 12 12 n. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or Mini e acute or acuminate, ` 
rarely exceeding 3 in., very thick, the numerous fine oblique parallel veins * 
rarely conspicuous, the intramarginal one at a distance from the edge. ` 
Flowers very large, red when fresh (Oldfield), ` to 3 together on thick dë 
ery ort, 
ës? tube. Stamens often 3 a ong or rather more, inflected in 
anthers ovate, with distinct denm sells. Disk very broad, forming wit 
ing very : 
e ini the dE not protruding beyond the ring. —E pw 
nasa, Turez. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 23, not of Schau.; E. eryfhrocilf : 
- F. Muell. ag ii. 32 : 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 58, 61, 4th Coll. n. 69, 10; Gilbert, ™ 256. € 
plains between Port Gregory and Murchison river, Oldfield, 
E. longifolia, Link and Otto, Ic. Pl. Sel. 91. t. 4 
Ee 
a inci fibrous persistent or partially deciduous bark (F. Der comet » 
smooth or fibrous and wrinkled according to the age of the tree a 
1 hard, conical, about ‘as long as the “calyx-tube ot som 
inier, crm fully 2 i in. long, inflected in the bud ; anthers ovate: m 
with distinct parallel cells. Ovary rather shorter than the calyx, convex. | 
