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EUCALYPTUS iongifolia. 
Long'kaved Eucalt/ppis, 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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Nat. ord. Myrtaceje. 
EUCALYPTUS L. — Cal. truncatus, in eestivatioDe calyptra caduca 
t«cttt0. \ CapnUa infera, 4 locularis, polyspenl|a. Spreng. st($t. ve^. 2.473. 
E. Iongifolia; operculo hemisphserico submutica, foliis lineari-lanceolatil ba« 
cuneatis subinsequalibus, umbellis paticifloris peduncuktis axillaribus. 
Our drawing of this species of Eucalyptus was made 
some months since, from a plant 7 feet high, in the con- 
servatory of the Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. No 
s})ecimens having been preserved at the time, and the 
plant having subsequently perished, we are unable to otier 
any other description of the species than could be obtained 
from our figure. 
The numerous species of Eucalyptus of which the 
forests of many parts of New Holland are chiefly composed, 
are almost unknown to the European world. Twenty-four 
only have been, enumerated in the most recent botanical 
compilation which has been published, so that the public 
are waiting iniputieiice for the appearance of the '2d 
volume of Mr. Brown's Prodromus, frona which alone is 
any really valuable account 6f the genus Ho be expected.' 
In the meanwhile the subject of this article may stand as 
a distinct species, diti'ering from E. viminalis in the form of 
its operculum, in the nature of its inflorescence, and in the 
greater breadth of its leaves ; from E. amygdalimi in the 
two latter characters, and from E. obliqua chiefly in the 
form of its leaves. E. resinifera, under which name we 
arc told this plant was ymrchascd by the Conitc de Vandes, 
is quite a diflerent thing, with a long rostrate operculum. 
