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LI. MYRTACErE. 
[Eugenia. 
deciduous. Stamens reddish-purple, the longer ones nearly lin. long. Anthers 
small. Ovary about half the length of the calyx-tube, concave at the top and 
scarcely fleshy. Ovules numerous in each cell, in two rows, ascending from a 
pendulous placenta. Fruit ovoid, about £in. long, narrowed at the top and 
crowned by the small calyx-lobes. Seeds usually 2 or B ; cotyledons thick and 
fleshy but separate. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay and many other localities in tropical parts. 
Wood of a uniform dark-brown colour, close-grained, hard and tough ; useful for building 
purposes, mallets, &c. — Bailey’s Cat. ()!■ I Foods No. 227a. 
19. E. fibrosa (bark fibrous), Bail. A slender tree with a fibrous bark ; 
branchlets terete or somewhat angled at the extremities, the bark with reddish or 
brownish lines, more or less cracked. Leaves elliptic-oblong, tapering at each 
end, 3 to 4^in. long, 1^ to 2in. broad at the centre; the apex obtuse, often 
elongated ; petioles 2 to 4 lines long, the parallel lateral veins sometimes distant, 
rather faint, confluent not far from the margin, the reticulation scarcely visible. 
Flowers in a terminal corymbose cyme, also, in some of the lower axils, in 
elongated bichotomous or trichotomous slender- branched panicles, 1 to l^in. 
long; calyx-tube with pedicel about 3 lines long; lobes 4, persistent, oblong, 24 
lines long, 1 line broad, somewhat coriaceous ; petals same form as calyx-lobes 
and not much larger, separately deciduous. Stamens rather numerous, fila- 
ments very slender, flexuose, 7 or 8 lines long. Anthers small with parallel 
cells. Style slender, slightly longer than the stamens ; stigma minute. Ovary 
in the narrow base of the calyx, 2-celled, with numerous ovules in each. Fruit 
not seen. 
Hab.: Somerset, where I saw it in flower June, 1897. 
20. E. Bungadinnia (aboriginal name at Somerset, Jardine), Bail. Ql. 
Agri. Journ. Tree of from 30ft. to 40ft. in height, stem diameter about 3ft., 
bark loose, inclined to be papery ( F. L. Jardine). Bark upon the thick branches 
peeling off in very thin cinnamon-brown papery flakes ; branchlets often 
flattened, the bark dark, hard and smooth. Leaves lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, 
tapering from above the middle often to the branch, or forming a petiole a few 
lines long, 2 to over Bin. long, •§■ to lin. broad, of a somewhat coriaceous texture, 
the parallel lateral veins and the intermediate anastomosing veinlets faintly 
prominent and joining the intramarginal one near the edge, both faces dotted, 
the under side rather paler, and thus the dots more plainly visible. The loose 
fruit received with the shoot-specimens were transversely oval or oblong, and 
measured 2in. broad and 14in. high. The remains of flower seen on the fruit 
2 to 3 lines diameter. Calyx-lobes 4, 1 line high, 1J line broad. Stamens seem 
to be in bundles of 2 or 3, about 3 lines long. Style stout, about 6 lines long. 
Fruit examined 1-seeded. 
Hab.: Somerset, F. L. Jardine, who says that, as this is one of the first fruits to ripen and 
comes at a time of scarcity, the natives almost live on it. 
21. E. eucalyptoides (Eucalypt-like), F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 55 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. iii. 285. A tall shrub or small tree, glabrous and somewhat glaucous, 
with pendulous branches. Leaves lanceolate, often falcate, 4 to 6in. long or 
more, narrowed into a very short petiole, remotely and irregularly penniveined 
and reticulate, the principal veins more or less confluent at some distance from 
the edge. Flowers rather large, few, in compact terminal cymes. Calyx-tube 
broadly turbinate, about 2 lines long, the free part broad ; lobes 4, broadly 
orbicular, the inner larger ones almost as long as the tube. Petals orbicular, the 
larger outer ones fully 3 lines diameter, all separately deciduous. Ovary about 
