MYRTACEM. 367 



mature subspherical in each cell ; cotyledons of exalbuminous sub- 

 spberical embryo broad reflexed replicate ; coat loaded and involved 

 ■with remaining sterile membranous squamose ovules. 1 — A remarkable 

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

 nerved punctulate; indumentum ferruginous ; flowers 2 glomerate in 

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

 3-nate, bracteolate. 3 {Nciv Caledonia.*) 



34. Eucalyptus Lher. 5 — Flowers oftencr 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 G ) more or less evidently solute. Stamens co , co -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 co , 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, 7 angular or liuear-cuneate ; cotyledons of 

 straight exalbuminous embryo plane or complicate, longer than 

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

 opposite or alternate, 8 entire penniuerved coriaceous pellucid-punctate; 

 flowers 9 axillary, in pedunculate, umbelliform or capituliform cymes, 

 5-co , sometimes rarely sol itary ; fruit either free, or more rarely 

 (Sympliyomyrtus 10 ) connate with each other ; bracts narrow or mem- 

 branous and falling long before anthesis. (Australia, Ind. Archip. 11 ) 



1 Besembling an aril (whence name of genus), globose short; but the superior often linear- 



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



3 A race very near to some Tristaniœ of the 8 Often in the same tree ; the inferior oppo- 

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



and seeds. 9 White or pale golden, sometimes purplish, 



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

 Not. bois N.-Caléd. 251. — Spermolepis gmmnifera 10 Schau. PI. Preiss. i. 126. 



Bu. et Gk. loc. cit. n Spec, about 150. Gjertn. Frtwt. i. t. 34, fig. 



5 Sert. Angl. 18.— Lamk. III. t. 422.— Pom. 1 (Metrosideros),— Cay. Icon. t. 340-342.— Sm. 

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

 Spach, Suit, à Buffo», iv. 126.— Endl. Gen. n. Laiull. Toy. t. 13, 20 ; PI. N.-Soll. t. 150-154. 

 6300.— Payer, Organog. 459, t. 98.— H. Bn. DC. Mém. Myrtac. t. 4-11.— Bonpl. iifa/m. t. 13. 

 Payer Fam. Nat. 366.— B. H. Gen. 707, n. 30. —Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 24 {Eudesmia).— Link 



6 B. Br. App. Fliiid. Toy. ii. 599, t. 3.— DC. et Otto, Abbild. t. 45.— Coll. Sort. Bip. App. 

 Prodr. iii. 216.— Endl. Gen. n. 6299. 4, t. 1.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 398.— Hook. 



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



