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llamina expand. It is, like all the fruit, a little 

 tuberculous. 



There is no corolla. 



The numerous llamina are attached to the 

 margins of the receptacle. 



The ftyle is iimple. There is only one ftigma. 



The capfule, which is open at the top, is gene- 

 rally quadrilocular; the cells contain feveral angu- 

 latcd feeds ; it has underneath four angles, two 

 of which are more falient than the others. Its 

 coat-button fhape has induced me to give this 

 tree the name of eucalyptus globulus. 



Explanation of the Figures, Plate XIII. 



Fig. 1. Branch of the eucalyptus globulus. 

 Fig. 2. Flower. 

 Fig. 3. Fruit. 

 Fig. 4. Calyx. 



The bark, the leaves, and the fruit, are aroma- 

 tics, which might be employed foreconomical pur- 

 pofes, in lieu of thofe with which the Moluccas 

 have for a long time furnifhed us exclufively. 



I was under the neceffity of employing almofl 

 the whole of the 7th in the preparation of my 

 collections, which increafed prodigioufly from 

 day to day. I could extend my refearches only 

 to a fmall diftance from our anchoring-place. 

 But on the 8th I fe,t out early in the afternoon 



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