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Tribe 2. Leptospeeme^. — O vary divided into 2 to 5 or more 
cells ; fruit dry, capsular, opening at the top loculioidally in as many 
valves as cells, or very rarely L or 2-seedcd and indeliiscent. 
Examples : Bwekea^ Byncarplay Euealyphis, From this tribe we have 
timbers and essential oils of great value. The timbers are mostly 
hardwood, and include Gums, Irunbarks, Eox, Tea-tree, Turpentine, 
Mahogany, Tallow-wood or Tee, &c. 
Tribe 3. Mvktk^. — O vary divided into 2 or more cells, or if 1- 
celled with 2 placentas; fruit an indchiacent berry or drupe; leaves 
opposite, doited. Examples : Myrtiis, tbe Clove ; Eugenia^ or Kose 
Apple ; PimenPj^ the Allspice ; Esidiumy or Guava, &c. 
Tribe d. Lecythtue^r. — O vary divided more or less completely 
into 2 or more cells ; fruit woody, fibrous, or fleshy, indeliiscent or 
opening in an operculum at the top ; leaves alternate, not dotted. 
Examples : Careyriy Earringfoniay are two genei'a found in Tropical 
Australia. The Brazil nut, JBertholletia , was at one time growing in 
the Brisbane Garden, but has never fruited in Queensland. 
Tribe III. MYRTEJE. 
ECGEN'IA, Linn. 
(In honour of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who was a protector and 
encourager of botany.) 
Calyx-tube from globular to i\arrow-tubinato, not at all or more 
or less produced above tbe ovary ; lobes 4, very rarely 5, from large 
and imbricate to very short and scarcely prominent above the truncate 
margin. Petals 4, very rarely 5, either free and spreading, or more or 
less connivent, or connate and falling off iuasinglecalyptra. Stamens 
numerous, in several series, free or obscurely collected in 4 bundles ; 
anthers versatile, usually small, the cells parallel or very I’arely 
divaricate., opening longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled, or very rarely 
3-celled, with several ovules in each cell, or only two in an American 
section. Eruit a berry or sometimes almost a drupe, or nearly dry 
with a fibrous rind. Seeds either solitary and globose, or few and 
variously shaped by compression; testa membraneous or cartihiginous; 
embryo thick and fleshy, with a very short radicle, the cotyledons 
either united in an apparently homogeneous mass or more or less 
separable Trees nr shruba. Leaves opposite, penniveined. Flowers 
(in the Australian species) either solitary in the axils, or in lateral or 
terminal trichotomoas cymes or panicles. 
E. niyrtifolia, Simn. Scrub Cherry, A small tree or tall shrub, 
glabrous Leaves petiolate, from oval'-oblong or almost obovate, to 
oblong-elliptica! or almost lanceolate, obtuse or accumiuate, 2 to more 
than 8 incbes'long, cuneate or narrowed at the base, finely and almost 
transversely penniveined. Peduncles axillary, lateral or terminating 
short leafy shoots, bearing usually 8 to 5 flowers but sometimes more, 
in a loose triohotomous panicle. Calyx-tube turbinate, to nearly 
2 lines diameter; lobes very unequal, the largest nearly as long as the 
tube. Petals nearly 3 lines diameter, spreading and sej)arately 
deciduous. Outer stamens nearly ^ inch long. Ovary about half the 
length of the calyx-tube, with a cluster of 8 to 10 ovules in each cell. 
Eruit red, ovoid or nearly globular, crowned by the calyx-limb. 
