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(6) Axillary umbels, regularly seven-flowered, except in the case of suppression of several flowers — 



E. occidentalis. E. Gunnii. 



E. Muelleri. E. Stuartianu. 



E. ccerulescens. E. goniocalyx. 



E. melliodora. E. coccifera. 

 E. obcordata. 



(c) Axillary umbels, where the number of the flowers is not regular, and may vary in a single species 



from three to eleven — 



E. myrtiformis. E. diversicolor. 



E. tereticomis. E. leucoxylon. 



E. rudis. E. desertorum. 



E. bolryoides. E. insignis. 



(d) Many flowered umbels, that is to say, containing more than eleven flowers, up to twenty-five or 



more — 



E. cornuta. E. Risdoni. 



E. Lehmanni. E. concolor. 



E. robusta. E. Andreana. 



E. diversifolia. E. amygdalina. 



E. obliqua. E. amplifolia. 

 E. rostrata. 



(e) The umbels have more or less long peduncles and the flowers themselves are sometimes sessile and 



sometimes borne by relatively elongated pedicels. 



The best characterised species under these two headings are — flowering peduncles often 

 longer than the petiole of the adjacent leaf ; the umbel then being generally bent or 

 pendent. — 



E. leucoxylon. E. obcordata. 



E. gracilipes. E. doratoxylon. 



E. occidentalis. 



If the pedicels of the flowers are almost absent or at least very short, the inflorescence 

 takes the form of a capitulum, especially when the fruits are formed — 



E. concolor. E. decipiens. 



E. goniocalyx. E. Lehmanni. 



E. Risdoni. 



The peduncles of the floral umbels are most often cylindrical, sometimes a little flattened 

 in their upper part ; but in some species they are dilated so as to resemble plates in the whole 

 or almost the whole of their length — 



E. Lehmanni. E. gomphocephala. 



E. obcordata. 



(/) Takes cognisance of the Operculum. See Operculum, p. 475 

 There is no (g\. 



(h) In several eucalypts the floral umbels in approaching the ends of the branches, which then cease to 

 become elongate, give place to panicles, sometimes aphyllous, sometimes provided with several leaves, 

 towards their base. When the panicles are enlarged they pass into the form of a corymb ; this mode of 

 inflorescence is shown in — 



E. Behriana. E. polyanthema. 



E. cinerea. E. citriodora. 



E. crebra. E. calophylla, and some others. 



