deep purple flowers, with long stamens, and must be a most striking object; it is probably rare, as I have only seen two or three small fragments; it is characterized by having, at the bottom of its superior hemispherical calyx, six elevated clefts, which appear as if they were the united sides of so many inflexed valves, between which there is a passage directly into the cavities where the ovules lie; I am not however sure that this is the real nature of the structure. The other has the structure of a Melaleuca, in a slight degree, but the stamens are irregularly polyadelphous, or altogether distinct, the anthers are fixed by their base and not their back, and the flowers grow singly at the ends of the branches, where they are covered with imbricated bracts. Of this genus, which may be called Eremæa35 (ερεμαιος, lonely), there are three species, of which the only pretty kind is E. fimbriata; E. pilosa is probably the plant named Metrosideros pauciflora by Endlicher.
Of Eucalypti there must be many species, but I have no materials sufficient to ascertain what they are; the barren hills on the bank of the river at Point Frazer are said to produce the magnificent Eucalyptus calophylla, but as that plant is not defined I am not sure whether I possess it or not.
tubus intus glaber, in fundo rimis 6 ovarii loculorum dehiscentibus stellatis elevatis interruptus.
(35) Eremæa. Calyx 5-dentatus, semiinferus, campanulatus. Petala 5. Stamina 00 irregulariter polyadelpha, vel omninò libera, annulo inserta; antheræ basifixæ obovatæ, v. oblongæ, rimis lateralibus (obliquè) dehiscentes. Ovarium semisuperum 2–3-loculare, polyspermum. Stigma simplex. Fructus adnatus, haud immersus, cyathiformis, glaber, intus capsulam 3-locularem loculicido-dehiscentem fovens. Semina numerosa, ascendentia, cuneata.—Folia alterna. Flores solitarii in apices ramulorum, bracteis imbricatis inclusi.
(36) Eremæa ericifolia; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis semiteretibus glabris obtusis corrugatis patulis, bracteis subrotundis glabriusculis, staminibus petalorum longitudine.—Flowers greenish white.
(37) Eremæa pilosa; ramulis pilosis, foliis semiteretibus obtusis corrugatis pilis longis fimbriatis, bracteis ovatis striatis glabriusculis, calyce tomentoso, staminibus petalis duplò longioribus.—Flowers apparently pink. (Metr. pauciflora, Endl.)
(38) Eremæa fimbriata; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis oblongis concavis obtusis imbricatis pilis longis fimbriatis subtrinerviis reticulato-rugosis, bracteis calycibusque tomentosis, staminibus petalis 3-plò longioribus.—Flowers rich purple.
