Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 . ts. It was of a veryiine grain, with fome few fmail cavities. I didnot there obferve any fhells. It may be prefum-ed, that that conformation was the etfed: of aflow depofition of calcareous matter in a ftate offolution. The change of the foil prefented me with fomeplants, which I had not yet found, I gathered a new fpecies of very tall ffaUlanteJeucalypt2(Sy of which the following is a defcrip-tion : The moft elevated twigs of that flirub, are notabove thirteen feet in
Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 . ts. It was of a veryiine grain, with fome few fmail cavities. I didnot there obferve any fhells. It may be prefum-ed, that that conformation was the etfed: of aflow depofition of calcareous matter in a ftate offolution. The change of the foil prefented me with fomeplants, which I had not yet found, I gathered a new fpecies of very tall ffaUlanteJeucalypt2(Sy of which the following is a defcrip-tion : The moft elevated twigs of that flirub, are notabove thirteen feet in height. They are fmooth,are furnifhed, chiefly towards the extremity, with-leaves, alternate, oval, elongated, flightly bent,and about four inche.^ in length. The flowers are feffile, and generally eight orten in number, at the extremity of a commonpeduncle, about an inch and one-fiith in length,having all the chara<5lers of the genus flamina, which are very numerous, havelong liiaments of a yellow colour. The ftyle pro-jects a little over the flamina. The calix is very much elongated, and is^ pulhed. Cuc<z/u/i hut C c-rn ata .Pti»^,BW,tJil/y,*,4/,rU,isoo. Dec] of la perouse. 45/ puflied outwards by the ftamina, in proportionas they are developed, and it falls when they haveacquired their full growth. The capfule is open at top, and furnifhed withthree cells and fometimes four. It is furmountedby a fmall portion of the bafe of the ilyle, whichis divided into as many parts as there are cells. Every cell contains a great number of angularfeeds. The form of the calix has induced me to giveit the name of the eucalyptus cormita. Explanation of the Figures. Plate XVI!. Fig. 1. A branch of the eticalyptus cornuta. Fig. 2. A flower difengaged from its calix, inorder to expofe to view the framina and the llyle. Fig. 3. A flower, whofe detached calix llill en-velopes the ftamina. F/g. 4. The calix. Fig. 5. The ovarium. Fig. 0. The capfule. After
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