THE FLORA OF THE NORTHEBN TEBRITOBY. lOI 



Stamens exceeding the petals, indefinite, free, or rarely united in bundles 

 opposite the petals. Leaves large or myrtle-like, permiveined. Flowers in 

 pedunculate heads cymes or corymbs, or rarely soUtary and pedicellate. 



Stamens united in 5 bundle 5, scarcely exceeding the petals in some 

 species. Leaves alternate or in one species opposite. — 6. Tris- 

 tania. 

 Flowers in cymes. Stamens free, all perfect. 



Ovules numerous, horizontal or ascending, covering the placenta. 



Leaves opposite. 4. — "Metrosideros . 

 Ovules in a ring round a club-shaped or peltate placenta, Leaves 

 alternate. — 5. Xanthostemon. 

 Stamens indefinite, free. Fruit dry, indehiscent. Ovary perfectly or 

 imperfectly 2-celled or 1-celled by abortion. 



Calyx-lobes 8. Petals none. Flowers sohtary, sessile. — 3. Osbomia. 

 Calyx -lobes 5, narrow. Petals 5. Flowers solitary, pedicellate. — 1. 

 Fenzha. 



Tribe III. MyrtecB. — Ovary divided into 2 or more cells, or very rarely 

 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentas. Fruit an indehiscent berry or drupe. — 

 2. Eugenia. 



1. FENZLIA, Endl. 



1. F. retusa, Endl.- — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; 

 Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. 



2. EUGENIA, Mjch. 1735. 



{Myrcianthes, Stenocalyx, Hexachlamys, PhyUoccdyx, Anamomis, Jlyrtop- 

 sis, Plinia, Plum., 1703 ; Acmena, Jambosa, Syzygium, Cleistocalyz, partly). 



The fruits of many are useful ia cooking. Gum Mvrtle. 



Section I. Syzygium. — ^Flowers in trichotomous panicles or cymes.' 

 Calyx-tube more or less produced above the ovary, the border entire or very 

 shortly sinuately-lobed, or with more prominent but very deciduous lobes. 

 Petals more or less cohering in a calyptra, or rarely spreading and separately 

 deciduous.^ — 3. E. Smithii. 



Section II. Jambosa. — Flowers in trichotomous panicles or cymes. 

 Calyx-tube more or less produced above the ovarj^, prominently lobed, the 

 lobes usually persistent. Petals free and spreading. 



Flowers large, ia a large' trichotomous terminal panicle. Leaves broad, 

 obtuse, coriaceous. Calyx-tube turbinate.- — 4. E. suborbicularis. 



Flowers rather large, few in a terminal cyme. Calyx-tube turbinate ; 

 lobes as long as the tube. — 2. E. eucahnstoides. 



Flowers rather small, in a corymbose terminal panicle. Calyx turbiaate- 

 campanulate, under 2 lines long ; lobes small. — 1. E. Armstrongii. 



1. E. Aimstrongii, Benth.- — ^Port Essington, Armstrong ; N. Coast, A. 

 Cunningham. 



2. E. eucalyptoides, F. v. M. — Gravally places on the Victoria River, 

 F. V. Mueller. Fruit used for jam-making under the name of Native Pear. 



3. E. Smithii, Poir. — Port Essington, Armstrong. Bark ;sields 17 per 

 cent, tannin. Lilly Pilly. 



4. E. suborbicularis, Benth. — ^Darwin, G. F. HUl (3rd Series, No. 16), 

 1914 ; and 1st series, No. 333. 



Cape York, F. L. Jardine. 



