Eucalyptus.'] MYRTACEAE. 485 



A small tree with white flowers and globose crimson 

 fruit. 



10. EUGENIA SINGAMPAITIANA, Bedd. Ic. t. 273; F. B. I. ii. 506. 

 W. Ghats, in the Siiigampatti Hills of Tinnevellj at 3,000 ft., 

 in moist forests. 

 A small dense tree with white flowers. 



6. Meteoromyrtus, Gamble. 



Small tree or shrub. Leaves opposite, membranous, penni- 

 nerved, villous when young. Flowers small, solitary, on axillary 

 or supra-axillary pedicels, villous ; bracteoles 2, linear, below the 

 calyx-tube and longer than it. Calyx-tube short, not produced 

 beyond the ovary, furnished with an annular disk at the mouth ; 

 lobes 4, lanceolate, villous, rather longer than the petals. Petals 

 4, suborbicular, pellucid-punctate. Stamtns indefinite, inserted 

 in a ring 011 the disk ; anthers small, opening longitudinally. 

 Ovary 2-celled, about 4-ovuled in each cell, the ovules pendulous 

 from its apex ; style elongate ; stigma subcapitate. Fruit not 

 yet known. 



METEOROMYRTUS WYNAADENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1918, 

 241. Eugenia wynaadensis, Bedd. Ic. t, 161 ; F. B. I. ii. 506. 

 W. Ghats, about Devala in S.E. Wynaad, at 2,000-3,000 ft. 

 A small tree or large shrub with oblong, lanceolate, acuminate 

 leaves, villous when young, afterwards glabrous, the rather 

 distant nerves meeting in a looped iiitramarginal nerve ; 

 flowers on slender pedicels usually supra-axillary, with long 

 linear bracteoles and lanceolate calyx-lobes, the petals 

 pellucid-punctate and ciliate. 



7. Eucalyptus, I/Her. 



Trees. Leaves usually opposite when young, when old different 

 in shape and usually alternate, coriaceous, entire, penninerved. 

 Flowers on axillary peduncles, solitary or in umbels or heads of 

 3-many ; bracts deciduous. Calyx-tube turbinate or campanulate, 

 adiiate at the base to the ovary, truncate at apex, sometimes with 

 very small lobes. Petals 5, united in a calyptra which falls off 

 by the pressure of the growing stamens. Stamens many, free, 

 many-seriate ; filaments filiform ; anthers small. Ovary inferior, 

 3-4-celled ; many ovules in each cell, subhorizoiital ; style slender ; 



