Page:Voyage in search of La Perouse, volume 1 (Stockdale).djvu/487

] pushed outwards by the stamina, in proportion as they are developed, and it falls when they have acquired their full growth.

The capsule is open at top, and furnished with three cells and sometimes four. It is surmounted by a small portion of the base of the style, which is divided into as many parts as there are cells.

Every cell contains a great number of angular seeds.

The form of the calix has induced me to give it the name of the eucalyptus cornuta.

Fig. 1. A branch of the eucalyptus cornuta.

Fig. 2. A flower disengaged from its calix, in order to expose to view the stamina and the style.

Fig. 3. A flower, whose detached calix still envelopes the stamina.

Fig. 4. The calix.

Fig. 5. The ovarium.

Fig. 6. The capsule.

After having resolved to pass the night on shore, we sought for a commodious retreat, and found at last an excavation in a rock, where we were for some time perfectly sheltered from the wind and the rain which overtook us at the close of the day. The cold was sufficiently keen to induce us to kindle a fire, and as we had not much pro- visions,