MYRTACE^E 325 



4 in. diameter. Stamens numerous, filaments slender 

 bent inwards before the flower opens. Ovary inferior, 

 enclosed in the calyx-tube, with two or more cells. 

 Fruit a berry containing numerous hard angular seeds 

 and crowned by the persistent calyx teeth. 



* RHODOMYRTUS TOMENTOSA, Wt, the Hill-guava 

 or Hill-gooseberry. A shrub with opposite leaves, 

 which with the young branches are covered with a 

 thick tomentum. Leaves elliptic, entire, coriaceous, 

 glabrous above, tomentose beneath. Veins three to 

 five, curved from the base. 



Flowers in small axillary peduncled cymes, of one 

 to three flowers, ovary inferior, calyx -tube tomentose, 

 sepals five unequal. Petals five, mauve pink, with 

 only a very short claw (stalk). Stamens many free 

 bent down in bud. Ovary one to three-celled bud 

 divided also transversely. Fruit a berry crowned by 

 the persistent sepals. 



'"The EUCALYPTUS, of which several species have 

 been introduced from Australia to the cooler parts of 

 India, is too well-known to need description. 



In one respect these trees are very peculiar. The 

 young trees have square branches and opposite sessile 

 leaves, on the older the branches are round and the 

 leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolate and falcate. They 

 are highly scented by roundish globules of oil. The 

 flowers have an inferior ovary, round petals, and 

 numerous long stamens which, in the bud, are curled- 

 up inwards. The fruit which can be picked up in 

 such large numbers under the trees, is a hard thick 

 woody capsule, almost a woody-berry, but opening at 

 the top. 



