MYATACE^. 367 



mature subspherical in each cell ; cotyledons of exalbuminous snb- 

 spherical embryo broad reflexed replicate ; coat loaded and involved 

 "witb remaining sterile membranous squamose ovules.' — A remarkable 

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

 nerved punctulate; indumentum ferruginous ; flowers^ glomerate in 

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

 3-nate, bracteolate.^ (New Caledonia.'^) 



34. Eucalyptus Lhee.^ — Flowers oftener 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 ^) more or less evidently solute. Stamens oo , oo -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 

 dUated at stigmatose apex. Ovules in cells oo , 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,^ angular or linear-cuneate ; cotyledons of 

 straight exalbuminous embryo plane or complicate, longer than 

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

 opposite or alternate,' entire penninerved coriaceous pellucid-punctate; 

 flowers ^ axillary, in pedunculate, umbelliform or eapituliform cymes, 

 5-0O , sometimes rarely solitary; fruit either free, or more rarely 

 (Symphyomyrtus '") connate with each other ; bracts narrow or mem- 

 branous and falling long before anthesis. (Australia, Ind. Archif}^) 



^ Eesembling an aril (whenoe name of genus). glotose short; but tlie superior often linear- 



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



^ A race very near to some THstanice of the ' Often in the same tree ; the inferior oppo- 



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



and seeds. ' White or pale golden, sometimes puiplish, 



* Spec. 1. A. ffummiferum Panch. loc. cit. ; often rich in odorous nectar. 



Not. hois N.-Caled. 251. — Spermolepis gummifera '" Schau. Fl. Freiss. i. 126. 



Bk. et GrR. loc. cit. '■^ Spec, about 150. G^^etn. Fruct. i. t. 34, fig. 



5 Serf. Angl. 18.— Lamk. III. t. 422.— Poir. 1 (Metrosidero3),—CA\. Icon. t. 340-342.— Sm. 



3ict. Suppl. ii. 690.— DC. Prodr. iii. 216.— PI. N.-Boll. t. 13, 42, iZ; Exot. Bot.t.?,i.— 



Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 126.— Endl. Gen. n. Laeill. Voy. t. 13, 20 ; PI. N.-Eoll. t. 150-154. 



6300.— Pater, Orgmog. 459, t. 98.— H. Bn. HG. Mim.Myrtac.t.i-W.—'SojsvL.Malm.t.U. 



Payer Fmn. Nat. 366.— B. H. Gen. 707, n. 30. —Sweet, Fl. Justral. t. 24 (.£«&«»»!»).- Link 



« E. Br. App. Flind. Voy. ii. 599, t. 3.— DC. et Otto, Abbild. t. 45.— Coll. Ilort. Sip. App. 



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



? The inferior (lite the ovules) ovoid or sub- Iccm. t. 405, 611, 619, 849, 879.— F. Muell. 



