208 EUCALYPTUS. 



young branches and often the foliage more or less rusty -pubescent, or the 

 branches bispid with a few stiff hairs or bristles, but sometimes quite 

 glabrous. Leaves large, often 4 to 5 in. diameter, sessile, opposite, cor- 

 date orbicular or oblong, mostly obtuse and sometimes undulate. Flow- 

 ers rather large, the umbels in a dense terminal corymbose panicle, or in 

 one specimen a single umbel axillary. Peduncles and pedicels short, 

 terete. Calyx-tube very broadly campanulate, 6 to 8 lines diameter. 

 Operculum broadly conical, shorter than the calyx-tube. Fruit ovoid, 

 when perfect about i in. long and ^ in. diameter, contracted towards 

 the orifice, the rim narrow, the capsule deeply sunk. Seeds winged. 

 F. Muell. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 95; E. confer tiftora, F. Muell. 1. c. 96. 

 N. Australia. Copeland island, N. W. coast, A. Cunningham; Vic- 

 toria river and Arnhem's Land, F. Mueller. 



