1 Fuealyptus. XLVIII. MYRTACE E. 243 
diameter, not contracted at the orifice, the rim thick, convex and prominent, 
- the capsule nearly on a level with it, and the valves shortly protruding. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of ri ninm R. Brown. 
. Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brow terti p on the Burdekin, F. Mueller 
Perey Island, A. Cunningham ; Endeavour river, I ai A: common about Sickbas gil 
Dallachy ; Broad "mg Fitzroy ; oer € Bowman. 
- E populifolia, Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 204, near Mount Owen, Mitchell; 
Without flowers or fits but with SA shaped can on the branches, belongs more 
T to dom species than to E. polyanth 
E. ta, F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. "le . iii. 96, from the upper Roper river, appears 
S a bet the same species, with the outer operculum persisting till the bud has nearly » 
tained its full size, whilst in the majority of Meets it falls off at a very early stage. 
— 9L E, alba, Reinw. in Blume, Bijdr. 1101. A tall tree with a pale 
E ash-coloured rough saana bark (F. Mueller), d foliage of a pale glaucous 
E ves from ovate-oblong and 2 to 8 in. long, to ovate-lanceolate or 
: broadly date, obtuse or scarc ely acuminate and 5 to 6 in Pha with 
Towers, not seen are Buds small, ovoi , the oe sie: 
nical, as long as the ealyx-tube. Fruit turbinate or obconical, about 3 lines 
: «qi Australia, Baudin’s Expedition (Herb. R. Brown, from Herb. Mus. Par 
Hir occidentale,” but as in other plants from the same expedition probably in nanc 
"sy Valleys, Macarthur river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. The Timor specimens 
ʻi R. Brown are in the 
im Ke 
b s mens, T by Black in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 92, to Æ. tectifica, belong 
Hc the mz of which sometimes assume the form of those of Æ. alba, but 
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liv. ege , F. Muell.; Mig. in Ned. Kruidk, Arch. iv. 131. 
: Mac" a ene See elevation, the bark of the branches smooth 
iduous, that of the trunk rough and rigid and somewhat stringy (F. 
: Ifield). Leaves from broadly pelle anai to narrow — 
mostly 3 to 6 in, long, much narrowed at the base, usually equal o 
50, but sometimes oblique, thick, the nerves rather regular and diver 
Scarcely conspicuous. Peduncles axillary o r lateral, terete or slightly 
ut 
9 orter to rather longer than the calyx-t Stamens dark- 
»* to nearly 3 lines long, inflected in the bud ; anhori oe tms 
