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all south of the equator, in Africa, America, Australia, and 
the Antarctic Islands. So named in honour of a Swedish 
botanist. 
1. G. scabra (fig. 102).—This is remarkable for its large 
Rhubarb-like leaves with prickly petioles, and the large club- 
Fig. 102. Gunnera scabra. (2; nat. size.) 
shaped spike of innumerable small flowers of a reddish tinge. 
A native of Chili, requiring slight protection in severe weather. 
Orver XLIV.—_MYRTACEA. 
This vast order furnishes us with very few hardy subjects; 
in fact, not a single species that will withstand the climate 
throughout the kingdom. It includes about seventy-five 
genera and some 2,000 species, all of which are shrubby or 
arborescent. They are especially abundant in South America 
and Australia. The Gum-trees (Lucaljptus) of the latter 
country number nearly 150 species. Some of the slower- 
growing kinds may prove hardy in this country, but most of 
them grow so rapidly and make so much wood in one season 
that it does not ripen, and is cut back by frost. One slow- 
growing species (£. pulverulénta) was formerly represented in 
Kew Gardens by a specimen about 30 feet high, which must 
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