EUCALYPTUS. /pj 



E. mortoniana. Leaves long-stalked, scattered, lanceolar 

 or sickle-shaped, long and rather broad; equally dull green; stalk com- 

 pressed; about length of calyx tube; stalklet distinct; calyx-tube rough, 

 often slightly ridged, topshaped or truncate ovate; border of tube has 

 appearance of a pot of some thick fluid boiling over: lid hemispheric- 

 acuminate, the point or beak of the lid is thick and long; buds flattened 

 and angular; valves exserted, generally four or rarely three; bark sheds 

 in long strips. General appearance suggests Eucalyptus globulus; anth- 

 ers oblong, opening by parallel slits, dorsal gland prominent, style spot- 

 ted somewhat dilated toward top, stigma not dilated. 



51. E. vernicosa, Hook. Dwarf; leaves often very small, mostly 

 ovate, equally dark-green, very shining; flowers i to 3; stalks and stalk-- 

 lets very short; lid shining, short- pointed; fruits semiovate, border de^ 

 pressed, valves exsertecl. 



52. E. rudis, End. Leaves thin, falcate-lanceolar, equally dull- 

 green; oil-dots pellucid; umbels solitary; stalklets short; lid broad-coni- 

 cal, transverse edge of the calyx prominent in bud; fruits semiglobular 

 topshaped, border rather convex, valves exserted. 



53. E. cornuta, Lab. Leaves equally green ; umbels solitary; 

 stalklets almost none, lid very long, unwards cylindrical; filaments yel- 

 low, long, straight in bud; fruit bellshaped-semiovate, border depressed, 

 valves very long, awlshaped, coherent. 



54. E. Lehmanni, Preiss. Leaves from ovate to oblong or almost 

 lanceolate, obtuse, very thick, the veins very oblique and rather distant ; 

 flowers several, often 20 or more together in dense heads upon thick re- 

 curved pecuncles i to 3 inches long, and sometimes much flattened, the 

 receptacle forming a globose of ^ inch or more in diameter, in which 

 the calyx tubes are more or less immersed; fruits half immersed in the 

 receptacle; the exserted valves connivent into a cone. 



55. E. megacarpa, L. H. Leaves equally green; umbels solitary; 

 stalks broadly compressed, stalklets none; lid semiglobular, short pointed ; 

 fruit large, almost hemispheric, warty-rough, angular, border broad, de- 

 pressed, valves exserted, blunt, convergent. 



56. E. alpina, Lind. Leaves very thick, broad, blunt, equally 

 green, shining; umbels solitary or flowers single; stalks and stalklets- 

 none; lid crownshaped, anthers cordate; fruit hemispheric, border 

 depressed, valves exserted. 



57. E. macrocarpa, Hook. Dwarf; leaves opposite, sessile, ovate- 

 cordate, equally whitish-grey; flowers solitary, very large; stalk and stalk- 

 lets almost none; lid semiovate-conical; filitnents red; fruit very large, 

 topshaped-hemispheric; border broad, convex; valves exserted; fertile 

 seeds membranously margined. 



58. E. saligna, Sm. Leaves much paler beneath; veins feathery- 

 spreading; urrbels solitary; stalk compressed, stalklets very short; lid 



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