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1120. Leaves of the adult plant very much longer than broad. 



Finally very tall ; bark smooth, whitish outside ; leaves 

 very firm, from narrow- to elongate-lanceolar, unilaterally 

 much curved ; secondary venules rather distant, mode- 

 rately spreading ; flowers large, solitary or sometimes two 

 or three together ; stalks and stalklets almost none ; lid 

 double, the outer fugacious, the inner crown-shaped ; 

 anthers ovate -ellipsoid; fruit large, nearly hemispheric- or 

 obverse-pyramidal, angular, verrucular-rough, its border 

 broad, depressed ; valves three to six, emergent or 

 convergent, deltoid ; young seedlings bluish-white from a 

 mealy somewhat ceraceous bloom, their stem quad- 

 rangular ; their leaves opposite, sessile, from orbicular- 

 to ovate-cordate. Figure 59. "Blue Gum-tree." 



E. Globulus. 



Leaves of the adult plant from hardly longer than 

 broad to about twice as long. 



Shrubby or scarcely arborescent ; leaves very firm, from 

 oblique-elliptical to 6rbicular, equally green and shining 

 on both sides; secondary venules rather distant and faint; 

 umbels capitular, solitary or the flowers singly axillary ; 

 stalks and stalklets none ; calyx verrucular-rough ; lid 

 irregularly semiovate or semiglobular ; anthers cordate ; 

 fruit rather large, hemispheric, its border broad, depressed, 

 flat or convex ; valves four to six, protruding, deltoid. 



. alpina. 

 BACK.HOUSXA. 



1121. Calyx-lobes nearly equal. 



Tall-shrubby or finally arborescent ; somewhat invested 

 with short soft greyish hairlets ; leaves opposite, on short 

 stalks, from almost ovate- to broad -lanceolar, always 

 acute, their secondary venules pennular-spreading; flowers 

 in cymes ; lobes of the calyx somewhat petaloid, from 

 ovate- to elliptic-lanceolar, considerably longer than the 

 almost orbicular petals ; fruit completely enclosed. 



B. myrtifolia. 

 TRZSTANIA 



1122. Petals yellow. 



Tall-shrubby or finally arborescent ; somewhat invested 

 with very short hairlets ; leaves firm, scattered, from 

 narrow- to ovate-lanceolar, pellucidly dotted ; flowers 

 fragrant, several in each cyme or only three or two 

 together or occasionally quite solitary ; lobes of the calyx 

 from semiovate to deltoid, persistent, much shorter 

 than the tube ; sets of stamens about as long as the 

 petals ; fruit globular-ovate, exceptionally four-celled ; 

 valves exserted ; seeds compressed, cuneate-elliptical, the 

 embryonate seeds provided with a terminal oblique 

 appendicular membrane. T. lauriiia. 



