228 XLVIII, MYRTACER, LEucalyptus, 
w. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. Suppl. n. 36. 
SuBsERIES III. Ropust#.—Peduncles axillary or lateral or very rarely 
the upper ones in a terminal corymb, usually flattened, each with several or 
rarely only one large or moderate-sized flowers, sessile or tapering into thick 
pedicels. Leaves usually thick and alternate or in Z. Preissiana often oppo- 
site. Rim of the fruit often concave with a sunk capsule except in the last 
e grip 
forming a border or cup round the oper an 4 geg ee 
prominent. Operculum pyramidal, hard, pan not half so as the 
c Stamens white or red, inflected in the bud, not above n: in p 
lyx. 
anthers oblong with parallel distinct cells. Ovary short, somewhat convex . 
in the centre. Fruit prominently angled or 4-winged like the pe ier l 
winged at the base like the peduncle and often not much enlarged, but 
times attaining 2 or even 3i in.; the rim concave, the capsule “rath 
gu Gas os sii. peas ii. 34. 
n Swan River and King George's Sound, Drummond , we E b 
er At 
n. di E Coll.» n. Dei. go ; Fitzgerald river and Granite hills N. of Cape Le 
pe = miniata, 4 ; Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii. 925. A moderate 
sized or large tree, D but bro and persistent but readil ble m 
flakes (F. Mueller), the young shoots sometimes glaucous or mé 
near the edge. — Peduncles axillary or lateral, very thick and broad, more oF ` 
less flattened, 4 to 1 in. long, with about 5 to 7 rather large closely sessile ` 
more or less prominently 8-angled. Operculum hemispherical, obtuse, 
shorter, than the calyx-tube. Stamens richly coloured, ee àd 
flected in the bud ; anthers oblong with distinct parallel oe 
D i nd 
minently ribbed, 1 to nearly 2 in. long, the rim rather thick, 
eeply sunk.— Z. aurantiaca, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. : 
N. Hunter's River, York Sra soa SCH ides, NW. SC 
ningham ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentari ndy plains and rocky Lech 
pe the Gulf of Carpentaria, F, NI eg the Ind and Port Essington, 
er 
E. 
Sr 
,59. E. ro m. Bot. Nov. Holl. 40. t. 13, and in Trans. GE 
iii. 283. A Re tree, with a rough furrowed bark. uem T 
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