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all south of the equator, in Africa, America, Australia, and 

 the Antarctic Islands. So named in honour of a Swedish 

 botanist. 



1. G. scabra (fig. 102). This is remarkable for its large 

 Rhubarb-like leaves with prickly petioles, and the large club- 



rig. 102. Gunners scabra. (J^ nat. size.) 



shaped spike of innumerable small flowers of a reddish tinge. 

 A native of Chili, requiring slight protection in severe weather. 



ORDER XLIV.-MYRTACE^I. , ' 



This vast order furnishes us with very few hardy subjects; 

 in fact, not a single species that will withstand the climate 

 throughout the kingdom. It includes about seventy-five 

 genera and some 2,000 species, all of which are shrubby or 

 arborescent. They are especially abundant in South America 

 and Australia. The Gum-trees (Eucalyptus) of the latter 

 country number nearly 150 species. Some of the slower- 

 growing kinds may prove hardy in this country, but most of 

 them grow so rapidly and make so much wood in one season 

 that it does not ripen, and is cut back by frost. One slow- 

 growing species (E. pulverulenta) was formerly represented in 

 Kew Gardens by a specimen about 30 feet high, which must 



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