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Eucalyptus.) XLVIII. MYRTACEA, 259 
or nearly so, or the upper ones alternate, all petiolate, long-lanceolate or 
adly linear, often above 6 in. long, rigid, but with the oblique rather 
long, bearing eac arge flowers, nearly sessile or tapering into short, 
thick, flattened pedicels Calyx-tube turbinate, very thick, irregularly ribbed, 
calyx- ens very numerous, inflected, forming 4 bundles alterna- 
ting with the calyx-teeth, the claw ntire part very short and broad, or 4 
bbed 
tally dilated, the disk very broad and obtusely prominent, giving it the shape of 
an old-fashioned hat, the capsule depressed in the centre, the valves not raised. 
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ustralia, : 
limestone hills, west of the Valley of the Lake, Drummond, 6th Coll. n. 70, who 
it in Hook. Kew Journ, v. 121, as one of the finest of the genus, with its scarlet cups and 
fine yellow flowers (i.e, stamens), 
132. E, tetragona, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 51. Varying from a low 
serubby shrub, densely corel with a white meal, to a small tree, of 20 
to 25 ft. the specimens often entirely deprived of the whiteness; branches 
CH 4-angled or almost 
ce from the edoe, Peduncles axillary, short, thick, angular or flattened, 
with 3 or very rarely 4 or 5 rather large flowers, on thick angular or flattened 
"mme - Calyx-tube campanulate, about 3 or rarely nearly 4 lines long and 
s With 4 minutely prominent teeth, sometimes very conspicuous, some- 
the carcely perceptible. Operculum depressed-hemispherical, shorter than 
calyx-tube, smooth. Stamens 3 to 4 lines long, more or less distinctly 
In 4 clusters or bundles, alternating with the calyx-tube, but the 
` dilatations of the disk ve short or scarcely perceptible; anthers 
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s Brown ; 
"go exposed barren places, near the shore, Lucky Bay, A. 3 
ming Range, custward t Ari ell, Preiss, n. 253, Bazter; Drum- 
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Cape Arid, Marw j 
Oldfield observes that from the abundance of essential 
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: "eg d contains, it is killed down to the ground by the periodical fires, when a 
Ut Gg only a little scorched, and is thus generally to be found only in an untidy, ragged, 
form, but he had seen d f 25 feet. 
n dead stems o 
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