236 XLVIII: MYRTACER. [ Eucalyptus. 
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parallel cells. Ovary very convex or conical at the top. Fruit urceolate, 6 
narrower below, the rim narrow, not prominent, the capsule somewhat sunk 
but conical in the centre, and the valves protruding when open. Schan, in 
Pl. Preiss. i. 128; F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 39. 
W. Australia. From Kalgan river and the W. end of Stirling range eastward to 
. Cape Riche and Cape Le Grand, Marwell ; Oldfield ; Harvey ; Preiss, n. 228 and 240; 
Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 14, also n. 159. 
In some of Drummond's and Oldfield’s specimens the leaves are smaller and narrower, 
the zn and fruit smaller, the orifice slightly contracted, and the very small valves scarcely 
protrude. : 
15. E. spathulata, Hook. Jc Pl. t. 611. A shrub of 6 to 8 ft. or 
not very broad, each with about 4 to 6 flowers. Calyx-tube obovoid, thick, 
about 2 lines long, tapering into a short thick pedicel. Operculum cylindrical, 
obtuse, often narrower than the calyx and about twice as long. Stamens 
inflected over the sunk ovary ; anthers oblong, parallel-celled. Style slightly 
thickened at the base. Fruit obovoid, 3 lines or rather more in length an 
nearly as much in diameter, contracted at the orifice, which is further closed 
by the rather broad flat rim ; capsule sunk, but the points of the valves some- 
times slightly protruding. 
am Geesse, Between Perth and King George’s Sound, Harvey ; Drummond, ard 
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Var. grandiflora. Leaves rather broader. Flowers and fruits larger.—Phillips range, 
Marwell. ; 
The species has much of the aspect of the narrow-leaved forms of Æ. redunca, but in that 
the operculam is acuminate, and the stamens more or less inflected in the bud. 
76. E. pallidifolia, F. Muel, Fragm. iii. 131. A small tree with an 
ash-coloured smooth bark (F. Mueller). ` Leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 
diameter, slightly contracted at the orifice, the rim broad, convex, and promi- 
nent, the capsule not sunk, the valves protruding and sometimes acuminate 
by the persistent split base of the style - 
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