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roundish ; style slender ; stigma not dilated ; ovary two-celled, convex at the 
summit ; ovules several in each cell, covering and surrounding the placentas. 
On the Strickland-River in New Guinea; W. Baeuerlen (Expedition of the 
Australian Geographic Society). Height as far as noted about 15 feet. Petioles 
less than half an inch long. Leaves measuring 3—4 inches in length, 
— 2 inches in breadth ; lateral nerves rather numerous ; peripheric 
vein slightly waved, not far from the margin. Primary peduncle J— 
inch long ; secondary peduncles mostly shorter, with generally two or three 
flowers on the summit. Bracteoles minute, almost deltoid, fugacious. Tube of 
the flowering calyx £ — J inch long, as well as the lid shining; the latter 
membranous, four-nerved, not seceding into lobes. Petals only about ^ inch 
long, singly deciduous. Stamens pluriseriate, the longest measuring about 
\ inch ; filaments pale. Placentas short, quite lateral. Fruit as yet unknown. 
This species approaches in many respects E. laevigata; but the branchlets 
arc distinctly angular, the leaves longer, comparatively narrower and almost 
suddenly protracted into the apex, their dots are translucent, the calyx-tube is 
streaked, the petals are not cohering into an operculum, the anthers more 
globular, and the fruit may also be different. 
The question is still open for discussion, whether that section of Eugenia, 
which is characterised by an eucalyptoid calyx, should be retained in the 
genus ; it’ so, then unavoidably Acicalyptus in its totality, comprising already 
three Polynesian, now also (with inclusion of one of the two above described 
Eugenias) two Australian, several South-Asiatic and at least one Papuan species, 
must merge into Eugenia; but the genuine species of the latter genus hold 
precisely the same relation to Acicalyptus, as Angophora to Eucalyptus. — 
Eegretably the name Acicalyptus, derived from an exceptional characteristic of 
the original species discovered, does not apply to most of the other forms, 
which must be considered congeneric. But it would appear, that Acicalyptus 
ought to be reduced to Cleistocalyx, published five years earlier by Blume, 
though the calyptriform portion of the calyx, well shown by his illustration 
(Mus. Bot. Lugd. LYI) is according to his description finally tearing into 
lobes. Closely cognate to this generic group of plants are also Piliocalyx and 
to some extent Pleurocalyptus, the latter as regards the dehiscence of its calyx being 
analogous to that series of species of Eucalyptus, which have in E. terminalis a 
leading representative. The fruit of Pleurocalyptus remained however unknown, 
and may prove capsular ; that of Piliocalyx agrees with the generic characteristics 
of Acicalyptus, while the difference in the position of the ovules is rather 
sectional than generic. Some species of Cleistocalyx became recorded under 
Syzygium ; but the typical form, on which Gaertner (after Samuel Brown) 
founded that genus, is S. caryophyllaeum ; it is therefore referable to Eugenia, 
and Syzygium can thus not be so restricted, as to absorb Cleistocalyx, Acicalyptus 
and Piliocalyx. The scattered leaves of Pleurocalyptus render it unlikely, that 
its fruit will be that of an Eugenia or closely allied genus. 
A case of alleged epithelioma is said, by Hr. Antoni, to have been cured 
by the application of an ointment, twice a day, consisting of 15 parts resorcin 
to 20 parts of vaseline. 
Hr. H. B. Belly, of Galion, O., writes to the Cincinnati Lancet- Clinic, 
that a sponge, saturated with stronger ether, passed lightly over the surface of 
adhesive plaster, will cause it to stick firmly to the skin. No heat is 
necessary, and the plaster will adhere closely over the whole extent. Spirit 
of turpentine will act in the same way. 
