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(b) Pedicels. 



Characters are sometimes based on the absence of, or the number or length of 

 the pedicel, and hence the following notes are offered : — 



1. Number of pedicels on the common peduncle (buds chosen). 



2. Pedicels absent or nearly so. 



3. Length. 



(a) Pedicels of the fruit less than half the length of the calyx-tube. 



(b) Half the length to as long as the fruit calyx-tube. 



(c) Usually of the same length, but often longer than the fruit calyx- 



tube. 



Stellate buds. 



Number of Pedicels. 

 It must be borne in mind that the number of pedicels may vary in the same 

 species, owing to atrophy or other causes. We want very many more examinations 

 in the bash before we can submit a correct classification based on the number of them, 

 but the following figures will help. See Naudin's figures of French grown Eucalypts 

 already quoted. The asterisk means " sometimes almost sessile." The numbers cited 

 are by my botanical assistant, Mr. B. H. Anderson, B.Sc, Agr. 



Pedicel solitary. — There are very few species of Eucalyptus with only one flower 

 to the common peduncle. I only know the following : — 



1. E. macrocarpa. Peduncle very short, thick, almost terete, articulate ; buds 



sessile or sometimes shortly pedicellata. 



2. E. tetraptera. Peduncle rather long, strap-shaped, with acute edges. 



Buds sessile. In a plant cultivated in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, we 

 have flowers for most part single, but on one branch I noticed them in 

 pairs, each flower being quite independent of the other on the strap-shaped 

 peduncle. 



E. Forrestiana is figured with a single fruit, but there may be as many as three. 

 Pedicels in 2's ... ... E. r eg nans E. Watsoniana (sometimes). 



Pedicels 1-3 ... ... E. pyriformis. E. Preissiana. 



2-4 ... ... E. angustissima. E. Torelliana. 





E. tessellaris. 



E. Watsoniana. 



2-5 ... 



... E. gamophylla. 





2-6 ... 



... *E. Abergiana. 

 E. aspera. 

 E. pyrophora. 



E. leplophleba. 

 E. nova-anglica 



2-7 ... 

 F 



... E. Etcartiana. 





