EUCAL YPTUS. 799 



or lateral, terete, or somewhat flattened, each bearing an umbel of 3 to 7 

 flowers usually recurved and on rather long pedicels, but sometimes 

 erect. Calyx-tube ovoid or almost cylindrical, 2 to 2^ lines long and 

 nearly 2 lines diameter, abruptly contracted or obtuse at the base, not 

 ribbed. Operculum hemispherical and broad at the base, with a central 

 beak sometimes very short, sometimes above 2 lines long. Stamens about 

 3 lines long, the filaments slender and acutely inflected as in E. undnata 

 and E. corynocalyx; anthers very small, globular, with distinct parallel 

 cells. Ovary short, convex or conical in the centre. Fruit ovoid, con- 

 tracted at the orifice, 3 to 4 lines long and rather less in diameter, the 

 rim narrow, the capsule deeply sunk. 



W. Australia. Low flats and rich soil to the east of Kojonerup- 

 from the Stirling Range to East Mount Barren, Maxwell, also Drum- 

 mond, ^th Coll. n. 186, all with narrow not very thick leaves ; from Kal- 

 gan river and King George's Sound to the eastward, Harvey, Oldfield r 

 Maxwell, with broader and thicker leaves ; Vasse river, Gilbert, n. 266, 

 with thick but narrow leaves. 



A specimen in fruit only from Murchison river, Oldfield, looks like 

 the same species. The E. doratoxylon, which in many respects resem- 

 bles this species, differs in the leaves mostly opposite as well as in the 

 stamens. The E. decun>a itself is very closely allied to E. oleosa, but 

 the shape of the calyx and fruit and the arrangement of the stamens are 

 somewhat different. 



ORTHANTHEREAE, 



33. E. micranthera, F. Muell. Herb. A shrub, of 6 to 10 ft., with 

 a smooth bark (Maxwell}. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or 

 almost obtuse, 2 to nearly 4 in. long, very thick and smooth so as wholly 

 to conceal the veins. Peduncles very short, often flattened, with 3 to 6 

 flowers like those of E. undnata or E. oleosa, but larger. Calyx-tube 

 turbinate, 2 to nearly 3 lines long, tapering into a very short thick pedi- 

 cel or almost sessile. Operculum very obtuse and shorter than the calyx- 

 tube. Stamens inflected, sometimes almost as acutely so as in E. cory- 

 nocalyx and E. undnata, but the filaments not so fine and the anthers 

 very minute, with parallel contiguous cells. Ovary flat-topped. Fruit 

 globose-truncate, 4 to 5 lines diameter, somewhat contracted at the ori- 

 fice, the rim broad, flat or slightly concave, the capsule very slightly sunk. 



W. Australia. Sandy hummocks, from Israelite Bay to Eyre's Re- 

 lief, Maxwell. 



Possibly a form of E. undnata, but both the operculum and the sta- 

 mens appear different. 



