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with irregular rounded prominences, which separates entire from 

 the calyx-tube by a well-marked line of dehiscence at the flowering 

 period. Calyx-tube broadly top-shaped or obconical, somewhat 

 variable in form, more or less ribbed and worted externally, 

 smooth, very glaucous, with numerous large globular oil-glands 

 immersed in its substance, the edge prominent, truncate, smooth. 

 Petals none in the expanded flower. Stamens very numerous, in 

 several rows, inserted upon the edge of a smooth, thick, promi- 

 nent, erect, green rim (disk) projecting above the line of dehis- 

 cence of the operculum ; filaments long, delicate, spreading, the 

 inner ones shorter, inflexed in the bud, cream-coloured, anthers 

 small, ovate, with parallel cells, versatile, yellow. Ovary enclosed 

 in the thick calyx-tube, and adherent to it throughout, flat on the 

 top, 4- or 5-celled, with very numerous axile ovules, style short, 

 rather thick, stigma entire. Fruit consisting of the enlarged 

 calyx-tube and disk, which have become hard, woody, and brown, 

 and the enclosed capsule, half-globular, the sides somewhat worted 

 and more or less strongly 4 (or 5) ribbed, the top either nearly 

 flat or somewhat convex, or with a very prominent central 

 portion, nearly 1 inch wide, smooth, the rim (disk) projecting a 

 little beyond the rest of the fruit, and separated from it by a 

 narrow channel, capsule opening at the top by 4 (or 5) flat, hard, 

 broadly triangular teeth. Seeds very numerous, many in each cell 

 abortive, brown and variously shaped, but usually clavate -linear, 

 fertile ones few, roundish -ovoid, black, about y 5 inch long, some- 

 what rough, not winged ; embryo with large 2-lobed cotyledons 

 folded over the straight radicle ; no endosperm. 



Habitat. This very fine tree was first discovered in 1792 by 

 the French botanist Labillardiere, on the voyage in search 

 of La Perouse, in Van Diemen's Land, then called Cap de 

 Dieinen, and thought to be part of the Australian continent. It 

 is abundant over the southern half of the island, i. e. not north- 

 wards of about sixty miles south of Launceston. Yet it grows 

 abundantly in Flinders Island in Bass's Straits, and on the main- 

 land of Australia is found in Victoria from Apollo Bay to 

 Wilson's promontory, extending inland to the Buffalo range, and 



