'94 EUCALYPTUS. 



hemispheric, short-pointed; fruit semiovate, border depressed, very nar- 

 j-ow, valves small, exserted. 



59 E. gomphocephala, D. C. Leaves thick, shining, slightly 

 paler beneath; umbels solitary; stalk broadly compressed, stalklets none; 

 lid broader than the tube of the calyx, almost hemispheric; fruit large, 

 topshaped, border broad, convex, valves exserted, convergent. 



The characters of unusual forms of any species are not covered by 

 this synopsis. 



RENANTHEREAE, 



Descriptions from Bentham not classified by me: 



6. E. coccifera, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 477, and Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 133. t. 25. A small tree generally very glaucous. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate or obtuse, mostly 2 to 3 in. long, thick and shining, 

 the veins oblique, not numerous nor very conspicuous. Peduncles 

 axillary or lateral, short, thick and much flattened upwards, each with 3 

 to 6 flowers, sessile or nearly so. Calyx-tube narrow-turbinate, tapering 

 at the base, prominently angled, fully 3 lines long and not above 2 diam- 

 ter. Operculum exceedingly short, broad, flat or depressed and rugose. 

 Stamens about 3 lines long, inflected in the bud; anthers reniform with 

 diverging or divaricate cells, confluent at the apex. Ovary short, flat- 

 topped. Fruit obovoidtruncate, scarcely contracted at the* orifice and 

 often losing the angles of the calyx, 4 to 5 or even 6 lines diameter, the 

 rim flat and rather broad, the capsule scarcely depressed, with short 

 valves. Bot. Mag. t. 4637; E. daphnoides, Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, 

 iv. 133. 



Tasmania. Summits of the mountains at an elevation of 3000 to 

 4000 ft., J. D. Hooker. 



Var, parviflora. Flowers much smaller, the peduncles exceedingly 

 short. Mount Fatigue, Gunn. 



The species has much the aspect of some thick-leaved forms of E. 

 amygdalina, but is readily known by the depressed operculum and 

 longer calyx. 



8. E. dives, Schau. in Walp. Rep. ii. 926. A small tree of 12 ft. 

 Leaves sessile, opposite, cordate or ovate, acute or acuminate, rather 

 large, on one branch the upper ones tending to become alternate and ob- 

 lique. Peduncles mostly on the stem below the leaves, bearing each a 

 dense umbel of 8 to 12 or even more flowers. Buds clavate. Calyx- tube 

 short and broad, about 2 lines diameter, tapering into a rather thick 

 pedicel longer than the calyx. Operculum short obtuse and hemispher- 

 ical. Anther-cells divergent and confluent at the apex. Fruit unknown. 



