liquor resembling black beer by boring into its trunk. The 

 timber, generally, is valuable, and extensively used : but so 

 heavy as to sink in water, and so hard as frequently to 

 require to be sawn before the sap dries up. Of the " Spotted 

 Gum" the timber is nearly equal to Oak, but the sap, or 

 outer layers, decay rapidly. Such are the interesting facts 

 respecting the Eucalypti which I have collected from my 

 friend Mr. Backhouse's observations. — The present species 

 is a native of King George's Sound, and, probably, attains 

 to a considerable size. Its discoverer, Mr. Allan Cunning- 

 ham, who introduced it to the Royal Gardens of Kew, speaks 

 of it in his Herbarium as attaining a girth of twelve to six- 

 teen feet. He had given it the MSS. name of E. macro- 

 carpa: but as that name has already been applied to a much 

 larger-fruited species (see Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 115, 116, and 

 117) it becomes necessary to alter the present, and I have 

 assigned to it one expressive of the form of the fruit. It 

 has also been found at the Swan River by Mr. Fraser and 

 Mr. James Drummond, who speak of it as an immense tree, 

 the general timber of that colony. The flowers are among 

 the largest of the Genus, in size and colour much resem- 

 bling those of Angophora cordifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 1960. 



Descr. With us E. splachnicarpon forms, in the green- 

 house, a tree, fourteen to fifteen feet high, with a rimose 

 trunk; and copious branches chiefly at the top. Leaves 

 alternate, three to five inches long, placed vertically with 

 regard to the horizon, ovato-lanceolate, oblique, very rigid 

 and coriaceous, the margin thickened, the midrib stout and 

 reddish, nerves numerous, oblique, parallel. Petioles an 

 inch or more long, tinged with red, as is the upper part of 

 the flowering branches. Peduncle terminal, bearing many 

 lar g e flowers, arranged in umbels produced with us in the 

 autumn. Pedicels terete. Flower-bud pyriform, the upper 

 hemispherical portion consisting of the lid, which falls away 

 and leaves the capsule, or truncated portion of the calyx, 

 and its numerous yellow-green stamens. Fruit an inch 

 and a half or two inches long, shaped like that of a 

 Splachnum, globose below, and a little wrinkled, then con- 

 stricted ; the mouth contracted. 



Fig. 1. Capsule and Pistil cut through. 2. Fruit:— nat. size. 



