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SYNONYMS. 



1 Symphyomyrtus Lehmanni Schauer, in Plantae Preissianse, i, 127. 



(E. macroeera Tuxcz., in Bull. Mosc, 1849, ii, 20 (described apparently from an 

 imperfect specimen). (In B.FI. iii, 233, referred to E. Lehmanni.) I have 

 already shown, Part XXXIV, fig. 8, Plate 142, p. 104 and 110, that this 

 species is a synonym of E. cornuta Labill.) 



2. E. cornuta F.v.M., var. symphyocarpa F.v.M. E. Lehmanni was often 

 distributed by Mueller under that name, but I cannot trace if he published it. 



1. Symphyomyrtus Schauer. 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



Flowers very many, fused together by the calyx-tubes into a pedunculate, globose head. 



Operculum closed, corniform, deciduous at the time of flowering. 



Corolla none. 



Stamens very many, inserted in the interior margin of the truncate calyx-tube; filaments filiform, 

 elongated ; anther inserted below the middle of the back, incumbent, linear, bilocular, dehiscing with 

 cells, along a longitudinal cleft. 



Ovary adnate below the calyx-tube, vertex, subpyramidal and angular, terminating in a trilocular 

 style ; ovules many, inserted on a bicostate spermaphore formed with a central angle. Style angular, 

 straight, about the same length as the stamens, deciduous ; stigma obtuse. 



Fruit built up into a woody, globose syncarp, as if armed with the conical exsert tips of the capsule. 



Capsule semisupera (see footnote, p. 33, Part XXXII), apex free and three-valved loculicidal ; 

 valves woody, connivent or cohering at the apex, gaping with clefts in between; the cells close together 

 and many-seeded ; seeds cuneate. 



In habit and flower similar to Eucalyptus, but forming a genus of its own because of its inflorescence. 

 It has the same relation to Eucalyptus that Syncarpia has to Metros ideros. 



Symphyomyrtus Lehmanni Schauer = Eucalyptus Lehmanni L. Preiss in Herb. 



In sterile, gravelly parts of the Konkoberup Hills at Cape Riche, November, 1840, with flower and 

 mature fruits. Hb. Preiss No. 227. 



A shrub of 6 to 8 feet, with terete branchlets, smooth all over. Leaves alternate, elliptical or oblong, 

 somewhat inequilateral, contracted into a petiole, very obtuse, shortly apiculate, pale green, shining, firm, 

 rigid, imperforate, 2 to 2i inches long, about 1 inch broad. Peduncles lateral at the bases of the year-old 

 branches, li to 2 inches long, strong, often thickened, compressed, deflexed, continuing into the capitulum. 



Capitulum globose, of the size of a large walnut, formed of twelve to fourteen flowers, connate up 

 to the limb of the calyx-tubes before flowering, the opercida coriaceous, subuliform, two inches long, and 

 stretched out like a porcupine. Stamens numerous, an inch and a half and more long; filaments quad- 

 rangular-filiform, dirty white. 



Ovary emersed and trilocular, with a subpyramidal angular vertex, passing into a tetragonal 

 stvle, about the same length as the stamens. Valves of the capsules woody, triangular, acuminate, pluri- 

 uostate, shining, connivent into a cone or cohering at the apex (Schauer in PI. Preiis, i, 127). 



