— Bualyptus.) XLVIII. MYRTACEA. 249 
- sender points of the valves formed by the split base of the style often pro- 
f  tmding.—Z. socialis, F.Muell.; Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 182; Z. tur 
| binata, Behr. and Muell. ; Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 187. 
N.S. Wales. Mallee scrub of the Murray desert, Becker. 
Victoria, Murray desert, F, Mueller, Dallachy. 
S. Australia. Port Lincolif, Wilhelmi. i 
| W. Australia. Gravelly places near Moir’s Inlet, Mazwell.—These specimens, as well 
L afew of those from the Murray desert, are distinguished by the long beak to the oper- 
_ pedicels, the shape of the Sales, the thinner operculum, and the shap 
104. E, decurva, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 
1 flattened, each bearing an umbel of 3 to 7 flowers usually recurved and on 
mather long pedicels, but sometimes erect. Calyx-tube ovoid or almost 
. ylindrical, 2 to 22 lines long and nearly 2 lines diameter, abruptly contracted 
2 parallel cells, Ovary short, convex or conical in the centre. Fruit ovoid, 
. fontracted at the orifice, 3 to 4 lines long and rather less in diameter, the 
2 Oldie ; from Kalgan river and Kin George’s Sound to the eastward, Harvey, 
SP ld, Maxwell, with broader and thicker Ton Vasse river, Gilbert, n. 266, with thick 
. ‘Mt narrow leaves 
ma specimen in fruit only from Murchison river, Oldfield, looks like the same — 
w E 2 D 
„but the shape of the calyx uh fruit and the arrangement of the $ 
erent. Both species, from the smallness of their anthers, come near to the Micran- 
. E. doratoxylon, P. Muell. Fragm. ii. 55. A large $ ^ 
all opposite or nearly so, lanceolate, acuminate, nearly straight, under 
ng, the veins fine, oblique, and rather numerous, but scarcely des 
: . va; anthers ovate-oblong, 
» much contracted at the orifice, about 3 lines long and rather less 
> the rim narrow, the capsule deeply sunk. ` ee 
Lucky Bay, R. Brown; Sullinup ranges, " Spearwood," and Russe 
ES The foliage of the species is that of E. dumosa, but it is well distinguished by the longer 
e of the fruit. 
