232 XLVIII. MYRTACEX. [Eucalyptus 
ER ES, 
river, and perhaps Murchison river (specimen imperfect), Oldfield ; towards Cape Leeuwin, ` 
Gregory. ; 
65. E. grossa, F. Muell. Herb. A stunted shrub (Maxwell). Leaves — 
from ovate and obtuse to lanceolate and acute, very thick and shining, under 
3 in i i 
prominently ribbed, 4 to 5 lines long. Operculum oblong, very obtuse, thin 
smooth as in the Cornute, as long as or rather shorter, perhaps sometimes ` 
longer than the calyx-tube. Stamens about + in. long, inflected in the bud; — 
anthers ovate-oblong, with parallel distinct cells. Ovary short, convex in the — 
cent i seen. | 
W. Australia. Phillips river and its tributaries, Maxwell. I feel uncertain as to 
the affinities of this species, the smooth cylindrical obtuse operculum is like that of some of 
the Cornute, but the stamens are much inflected in the bud, and the flowers are otherwise 
quite those of the larger forms of E incrassata. 
66. E. vernicosa, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 418, and Fl. 
Tasm. i. 135. A low bushy shrub, not exceeding 4 ft. in exposed situations, 
es 
tiguous, but parallel and ‘distinct, at least in the bud Ovary not much ! 
shorter than the calyx-tube. it hard : 
about 3 lines diameter, slightly dilated at the orifice, the rim flat or slightly — 
convex, the capsule somewhat sunk, but the valves protruding when open. 
= Tasmania, Summit of Mount Fatigue, Milligan; and of Mount Lapeyrouse, Oldi i R 
The Species is readily known by its small leaves, It is in some respects nearly allied E 
E. viminalis, in others to E dumosa. 
megacarpa, F. Muell, Fragm. ii. 70. A tree, the bark not de- 
owers. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, smooth, under 6 lines long, the — 
VIAE acutely prominent in the bud. Operculum shortly conical. Stamens — 
W. Australia King George's Sound and to the eastward, R. Brown, Drum e T 5 
3rd Coll. Suppl. n. 18; margin of Wilson's Inlet, Mazwell; near Augusta, GU) "i 
Ee Ppecimens are also in F. Mueller’s herbarium from a tree cultivated at Sydney 9 
a e Gum.” ` 
68. E. Preissiana, Schau. in Pi Preiss. i. 131. A stout rigid sinh E 
