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I will content myself with some references, in the present Part, and it will he 

 seen that the attachment of the stamens is to a deciduous, white, undulating staminal 

 ring, the stamens not continuous as in the non-Eudesmiefe, but broken because of the 

 tuftiness already alluded to. 



E. erythrocorys ; see Part XLV, article " Bundling and Tuftiness of the Stamens," 

 at p. 135, and figs. 2d and 2g, Plate 184.) 



Two characters may arise from the undulations in the Eudesmiese- - 



(a) The width of the staminal ring may be greater at the crests or tops of each 



undulation, becoming narrowest in each trough. (See fig. 2d. Plate 184.) 



(b) The lengths of the filaments vary, the longest emerging from the crests of each 



undulation. (See Part XLV, p. 135.) 



E. eudesmioides. See Part XLV, p. 136; Part XLVI, p. 165. 



E. tetragona. See Part XLV, p. 136 ; Part XLVI, p. 163. 



E. telrodonta. — It is expedient to again refer to this species in connection with 

 figs. 2 and 3a, Plate 185, and top of page 136, Part XLV. Calyx distinct, as depicted, 

 the lobes prominent, thick, obtuse, free from the operculum at the apex; operculum 

 thin. Staminal ring cylindrical, raised above the undulate calyx lobes. Eilaments 

 numerous, slender, attached to the top of the staminal ring in an almost uniform 

 manner, and not in four clearly distinct bundles. That the four bundles are not clearly 

 marked is shown in fig. 3a. The undulate calyxdobes in this species are not to be 

 confused with the undulate staminal ring common in the Eudesmieee. 



E. Baileyana. See Part XLIV, p. 113; Part XLV, p. 136. 



DISC OF THE FLOWER. 



Historical. 



Bentham, 1866. 

 Mueller, 1879-84. 



Following are the species in which Bentham refers to the disc, so far as the 

 stamens are concerned, but I cannot trace where he gives a definition of the disc : — 



E. macroearpa. " Their insertion (stamens) raised to about 2 lines above the edge of the calyx 

 by the thick edge of the disc, which is also often slightly raised within the stamens in a ring round the ovary." 

 (B.FL, iii, 224.) 



E. globulus. " Stamens . . . raised above the calyx by the thick edge of the disc." (lb., 225. 



