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Eugenia Smithii Poir. 
The Lilly Pilly. '"t^2 
(Family MYRTACEvE.) 
Botanical description. Genus Eugenia, see Part LXIX, p. 408. 
Botanical description. Species Smithii, Poir. Encycl. Meth. Suppl., iii, 126 (1813). 
A tree, sometimes small and slender, but attaining in some places a considerable height, quite 
glabrous. 
Leaves petiolate, from ovate to ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or more or less acuminate, 
narrowed at the base, mostly 2 to 3 inches long, smooth and finely penniveined. 
Flowers small and numerous, in a terminal trichotomous panicle, sometimes corymbose and shorter 
than the leaves, sometimes longer and more pyramidal. 
Bracts minute and deciduous. 
Calyx-lube turbinate, about 1 line long, the free part very much broader ; lobes either all very short, 
broad and scarcely prominent, or one or two rather larger almost petal-like and deciduous. 
Real -petals four, united in a small flat, very deciduous, calyptra. 
Stamens scarcely 1 line long; anthers small, with distinct globular divaricate cells. 
Ovules rather numerous. 
Fruit white or purple, globular, to | inch in diameter, crowned by the circular prominent calyx- 
rim; endocarp thick and hard. Cotyledons closely combined. (B.FL, iii, 280, 1866.) 
Botanical NaillO. Eugenia, already explained in Part LXIX. Smithii, in 
honour of Sir James of that ilk, purchaser of the Linnsean herbarium, and an assiduous 
worker at Australian plants during the end of the eighteenth and the early part of 
the nineteenth century. 
Vernacular Name. -" Lilly Pilly " is the name in universal use, and I 
suspect it to be of aboriginal origin, but I cannot trace it as such. Sir William Macarthur, 
in the Catalogue of New South Wales exhibits for the Paris Exhibition of 1855, 
spelled it " Lily Pily." 
Aboriginal Names. Called " Tdgerail " by the aborigines of Illawarra (New 
South Wales), according to the late Sir William Macarthur, and " Coochin-Coochin " 
by some Queensland aborigines. 
