MYRTACEM. 367 



mature subspherical in eacli cell ; cotyledons of exalbuminous sub- 

 spherical embryo broad reflexed replicate ; coat loaded and involved 

 Tvitli remaining sterile membranous squamose ovules.* — A remarkable 

 tree, yielding a gummy juice ; trunk large ; leaves opposite penni- 

 nerved punctulate; indumentum ferruginous ; flowers^ glomerate in 

 upper axils at top of peduncle dilated and compressed at apex^ 

 3-nate, bracteolate.^ {New Caledonia."^) 



34. Eucalyptus Lher.^ — Flowers oftener 4-merous; receptacle 

 very concave, campanulate or turbinate. Calyx continuous with 

 margin, oftener short, truncate, entire at apex or remotely 4-dentate, 

 Petals inserted with calyx and highly connate in herbaceous or 

 coriaceous hood circumscissile and deciduous at anthesis or rarely 

 (Eudesmia ^) more or less evidently solute. Stamens go , oo -seriate ; 

 filaments free, incurved or spirally twisted in bud ; anthers small , 

 versatile ; cells parallel, longitudinally rimose. Germen inferior, 

 adnate within to bottom of receptacle, flat at vertex, 2-4-locular; 

 style short or more or less elongate filiform, scarcely or not at all 

 dilated at stigmatose apex. Ovules in cells oo , often horizontal, 

 sometimes partly sterile. Fruit capsular, internally adnate to indu- 

 rate and at mouth truncate receptacle, loculicidal at vertex. Seeds 

 CO , often 2-morphous,^ angular or linear- cuneate ; cotyledons of 

 straight exalbuminous embryo plane or complicate, longer than 

 radicle. — Aromatic trees, sometimes lofty, often glaucous; leaves 

 opposite or alternate,* entire penninerved coriaceous pellucid-punctate; 

 flowers ^ axillary, in pedunculate, umbelliform or capituliform cymes, 

 5-Go , sometimes rarely solitary; fruit either free, or more rarely 

 (SympJiyomyrtus ^^) connate with each other ; bracts narrow or mem- 

 branous and falling long before anthesis. (Australia, Ind. Archip}^) 



^ Resembling an aril (whence name of genus). globose short; but the superior often linear- 



2 Yellow, showy. elongate and (always ?) sterile. 



3 A race very near to some Tristaniee of the ^ Often in the same tree ; the inferior oppo- 

 same region, differing in the nature of its fruit site, the superior alternate. 



and seeds. » WTiite or pale golden, sometimes purplish, 



* Spec. 1. A. gummiferum Panch. loc. cit. ; often rich in odorous nectar. 



Not. hois N.-Caled. 251. — Spermolepis gmmnifera i° Schau. Fl. Preiss. i. 126. 



Br. et Gr. loc. cit. n Spec, about 150. G^rtn. Fruct. i. t. S4, fig. 



5 Sert. Angl. 18.— Lamk. III. t. 422.— PoiR. l- {Metrosideros),—Ci.-v. Icon. t. 340-342.— Sm. 



Diet. Suppl. ii. 590.— DC. Prodr. iii. 216.— PI. N.-Holl. t. 13, 42, 43 ; Exot. Bot. i. 84.— 



Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 126.— Endl. Gen. n. Labill. Voy. t. 13, 20 ; PL N.-Eoll. t. 150-154. 



6300.— Payer, Organog. 459, t. 98.— H. Bn. J)G. M^m. Myriad. '^-U.—'Eo^vi..Malm.i.\Z. 



Payer Fam. Nat. 366.— B. H. Gen. 707, n. 30. —Sweet, FL JustraL t. 24 {Eudesmia).— Lwtl 



^ R. Br. App. Flind. Toy. ii. 599, t. 3.— DC. et Otto, Abbild. t. 45.— Coll. Mort. Rip. App. 



Prodr. iii. 216.— Endl. Gen. n. 6299. 4, t. 1.— Mm. FL Ind.-BaL i. p. i. 398.— Hook. 



7 The inferior (like the ovules) ovoid or sub- Icon. t. 405, 611, 619, 849, 879.— F. Muell. 



