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EUDESMIA tetragona. 
Square-stemmed Eudesmia. 
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Linnean Classand Order. POLYADELPHIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, MYRTACEAE. Kth, synops, 3. p. 410. 
Subordo I. Myrre#. Flores in foliorum axillis ant in pedunculis multifloris 
oppositi. Folia plerumque opposita et punctata. Kth. l.c.p.410. 
EUDESMIA, Calyx superus, 4-angularis, 4-dentatus. Petala 4, decidua. Pha- 
langes staminum 4 polyandrz, cum dentibus calycis alternantes, basi connata. Capsula 
4-locularis polysperma apice dehiscens. 

E. tetragona, ramis tetragonis pulverulentis, foliis coriaceis oblongo-lanceolatis penni- 
nerviis reticulato-venosis pulverulentis margine incrassatis, pedunculis axillari- 
bus terminalibusque subtrifloris. 
Eudesmia tetragona., Brown'in Flind. voy v. 2. app. p. 599. t.3. Spreng, syst. 3. p. 338, 
Swt. hort. brit. add. p. 486. 

A handsome upright evergreen shrub, not much branched : 
branches 4-sided, thickly clothed with a white powder; when 
rubbed off, they are smooth and glossy underneath, and more or 
less tinged with purple. Leaves petiolate, opposite and decus- 
sate, oblong or broadly lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base, 
flat, or when young slightly undulate, smooth, but covered with 
a thin white powder, which gives them a beautiful bluish white 
appearance, pennately and numerously nerved with transverse 
nerves and reticulately veined, margins thick, and of a horny 
substance, tinged with red, as are the veins when young, and 
also the young leaves. Petioles flat on the upper side, and 
slightly 2-kecled underneath, the two keels extending down the 
stem, and forming two wings. Peduneles axillary and terminal, 
enerally 3-flowered, strongly and sharply 2-angled, with two 
other very slight ones. Pedicles slightly 4-angled, and a little’ 
blistered or warted. Flowers slightly aromatic. Calya tubular, 
4-angular, the angles terminated in four very short teeth. Pe- 
tals 4, imbricate at the edges before expansion, and enclosing 
the stamens, rounded, concave, pale flesh-coloured, generally 
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