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THE AUSTRALASIA^^ jrBoug^ 
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No. 6.] 
JUNE, 1886. 
[VOL. I. 
(Doioamtl mxfr AoituXoo. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF EUGENIA 
By Baeon Feed. Yon Muellee, K.C.M.Gr., M. & Ph.D., F.E.S., F.C.S. &c. 
Eugenia Iloltzei— Branehlets terete; leaves thinly chartaceous, con- 
spicuously stalked, almost ovate, bluntly acuminate, distantly subtle-penninerved, 
copiously and pellucidly dotted, paler beneath ; cymes compound, lateral, 
trichotomous, with slender ramifications ; flowers small, one to three on the 
ultimate peduncles, these about as long as the flowers or variously shorter or 
almost obliterated ; calyx jointed with the last peduncles, its tube turbinate- 
semiglobular, much produced beyond the ovary, entire at the margin, not 
angular, somewhat longer than the depressed-hemispheric slightly pointed lid; 
petals four, minute, roundish, sessile, agglutinated to the lid ; anthers almost 
oval; style very slender; stigma not dilated; ovary two-celled, flat-topped ; 
ovules not numerous in each cell, horizontal or ascending. 
Near Port Darwin ; Moritz Iioltze. A good-sized tree, with aromatically 
fragrant foliage. Petioles £ inch long. Leaves measuring 2—4 inches in 
length, and 1J — 2 inches in breadth, slightly decurrent at the base ; the peripheric 
vein somewhat distant from the margin and irregularly diverging into veinlets, 
none of the veins particularly prominent. Cymes 2 — 4 inches long ; the 
general peduncle one inch or less in length, not angular. Bracteoles minute, 
lanceolar-deltoid , fugacious. Tube of the flowering calyx J— £ inch long, 
shining ; operculum paler, membranous, after secession often persistently adhering 
yet on one point, faintly four-nerved, not bursting into lobes. Petals about 
^ inch long, not readily separable, though really distinct. Stamens forming 
several rows, the longest measuring nearly J inch ; filaments pale. Placentas 
towards the base lateral. Fruit not seen. This species is evidently allied to 
E. Kalahiensis, differing in rather longer petioles, in leaves more protracted 
at the summit, with thinner less copious nervature and with the circumferential 
vein less near the edge, in not distinctly pedicellate flowers and probably in 
its fruit also. 
This tree deserves technologic attention, as a cosmetic oil might be distilled 
from the foliage, the numerous oil-dots indicating a fair yield. 
Eugenia Baeuerlenii. — Branchlets somewhat angular ; leaves on very short 
stalks, tkick-ckartaceous, almost oblong-elliptical, bluntly short-acuminate, some- 
what decurrent at the base, very spreadingly penninerved, copiously and 
pellucidly dotted, quite shining on both sides somewhat paler beneath ; cymes 
short, terminal; peduncles and pedicels angular; the latter continuous with the 
calyx and as long or somewhat shorter; tube of the calyx almost semi-globular, 
wrinkled-striate, extended beyond the ovary, hardly longer than the hemispheric 
smooth lid ; petals four, minute, orbicular, sessile, quite free ; anthers cordate- 
