Tab. 43:3:3. 
EUCALYPTUS macrocarpa. 
Large-fruited Eucalyptus, or Gum-Tree. 
Nat. Ord. Myrtace.e.—Icosandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus persistens obovatus aut globosus cupulaeformis, 
limbus operculiformis integer basi circumscisse et regulariter dehiscens deciduus. 
Fetala nulla. Stamina: Jilamenta numerosa libera. Capsula 4-locularis aut 
abortiv. 3-locularis apice dehiscens polyspenna.—Arbores (Novae Ilollandiae) 
excelsce. Folia integerrima coriacea scephts alterna, rarius opposita, interdum in 
iisdeni individuis varia, paucis exeeptis glaberrinm. Pedunculi axillares breves 
umbellam ^~\^-Jloram gerentes. Operculum in nonnuUis, ex cl. Brown, duplex, 
extenus calgcinum, interius corollinum. DC. 
FjUCALYptus macrocarpa ; tota pulverulento-glauca, foliis oppositis elliptico- 
cordatis coriaccis acuminulatis, peduncidis axillaribas solitariis brevissimis 
unifloris, calycis inagni crassissimi opercido conico-hemisphajrico acuminato, 
capsula maxima deprcsso-hemisphaerica marginata lignosa 4-5-valvi. 
Eucalyptus macrocarpa. Hook. Ic. PI. v. 5. tab. 405, 406, 407. Leh?n. PI. 
Preiss. p. 132. 
It is truly said in the ‘leones Plantarum’ above quoted, 
that “one of the finest among the many fine plants lately 
sent by Mr. Jas. Drummond from the Swan River Colony, is the 
present new species of Eucalyptus.” That was spoken of the 
dried specimen: with still greater truth does the remark apply 
to the living individual. Oiu* specimen is about five feet high; 
and the large and copious foliage, covered everywhere with 
glaucous white powder, and the bright red flowers nestled among 
the leaves, form a very striking object. The colour of the flowers 
is due to the stamens alone ; for petals (as in the genus) there 
are none, and the calyx falls off like the lid of a box. Drum¬ 
mond found it at “ Guangan,” an open sandy desert, commencing 
about eighty miles E.S.E of Freemantle and continuing for two 
hundred miles. This barren country is bordered by a consi- , 
derable forest, consisting principally of two species of Eucalyptus, 
called by the aborigines “ Urac ” and “ Morral : the latter is 
the plant now before us. The seed was raised at Kew in 1842, 
NOVEMBER IST, 1847. ^ 
