The flowers have no petals, and the stamens, which with one or two 

 exceptions, are white, inflexed in the bud, and expand when nature removes 

 the operculum. 



The fruit consists of a variously enlarged, indurated, truncated calyx 

 tube or capsule, three- to six-celled. 



The seeds are small and very numerous, the sterile ones predominating. 



The Genus Eucalyptus is of immense importance, whether considered in 

 reference to the timber, essential oils, dyes, perfumes, or kinos. Its trees 

 probably form three-quarters of the whole vegetation of this continent, but 

 the number of species, about 300 odd, can hardly be considered large with 

 such a wide geographical range, the area of Australia being over 3,000,000 

 square miles. 



