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The thin calycine rim may, as ripening proceeds, contract, and it may have the 

 appearance of being cracked, or with pieces out of it, e.g., E. sideroxylon, fig, 13a, Plate 

 55; E. Caleyi. fig. 16, 56. I have seen this cracking in E. Baueriana, E. polyanthemos 

 and E. Dawsoni, although I have not figured it, also in E. clavigera, and, less frequently, 

 in one or two of the Corymbosse. The thin or narrow rims will be separately enumerated 

 presently. 



Bentham, 1866.— I quote Bentham's remarks, as I have done those of other 

 botanists in regard to various organs. The varying phrases often convey shades of 

 meaning which might be destroyed or impaired if they were paraphrased. 



Bentham, under Normales, gives the rim some classifactory value, thus— 



Sub-series Robustm. — " Rim of the fruit concave." 



Sub-series Exserke.—" Rim convex or prominent, rarely flat, the capsule-valves protruding 

 beyond it," 



He does not, however, appear to have formally defined the " rim," although 

 I proceed to show that he uses it very frequently. 



Rim very narrow, E. Lehmanni. 



Xarrow, E. botnjoides, E. buprestium, E. corymbosa, E. corynocalyx, E. crebra, 

 E. ferruginea, E. gracilis, E. hemiphloia, E. loxophleba, E. maculata, E. microcorys, 

 E. microtheca. (brachypoda), E. paniculata, E. patens, E. polyanthemos, E. pruinosa, E. 

 redimca, E. rudis, E. setosa, E. strieta. 



Xarrow, not prominent, E. occidentalis . 



Narrow, slightly prominent, E. urnigera. 



^lightly prominent, E. siderophloia. 



Narrow, slightly raised above the calyx border, E. saligna. 



Not broad, E. odorata. 



Usually flat and not very broad, E. marginata. 



Flat and rather broad, E. coccifera, E. spathulata. 



Rather broad, flat or nearly so, E. melliodora. 



Rather broad, flat or depressed, E. bicolor. 



Broad, E. micranthera. 



Broad and flat, E. patellaris. 



Broad, flat or nearly so, usually deeply coloured, E. haemastoma. 



Broad rim prominent, E. longifolia. 



Fully 3 lines diameter, E. Preissiana. 



Thin, E. aspera, E. brachyandra, E. cinerea, E. clavigera, E. dichromophloia, 

 E. eximia, E. foecunda, E. latifolia, E. melanophloia, E. peltata, E. phoenicea, E. pyro 

 phora, E. tesselaris, E. trachyphloia. 



Rather thin, E. drepanophylla, E. goniocalyx. 



