Tas. 6140. 
KUCALYPTUS CORNUTA. 
Native of South-Western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Mrrracem.—Tribe LEProsPERMEA. 
Genus Evcatyptus, L’her. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 707). 
Evcatyptus cornuta; arbor, ramulis gracilibus pallide rubris, foliis 3-4- 
_ pollicaribus elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis glauco-viridibus, nervis 
obliquis intramarginali a margine remoto, pedunculis axillaribus 
robustis curvis modice a vertice compressis, floribus 6—40 in capitulum 
subglobosum coherentibus sessilibus receptaculo non immersis, calyce 
coni¢o-turbinato angulato operculo rubro in rostrum 2—3-pollicare 
obtusum robustum sensim attenuato, ovarii apice calyce non immerso 
conico instylum gracilem attenuato, staminibus alabastro non inflexis 
extimis 3-pollicaribus, fructu turbinato truncato ore non contracto. 
Kucatyrtus cornuta, Labill. Voy., vol. i. p. 403, t. 26; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. 
p. 216; Schauer in Plant. Preiss., vol. i. p. 127; F. Muell. Fragment., 
vol. ii. p. 39, excl. syn.; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. iii. p. 234. 
Amongst the wonderful forms of Australian vegetation 
this is not the least striking, whether from its singular 
_ Structure or the colouring of its inflorescence. It is a native 
of South-Western Australia, where it was discovered by. 
Labillardiére in the beginning of the century; and from whence 
numerous dried specimens are in the Kew Herbarium, from 
Cunningham, Drummond, Oldfield, Harvey, and others, col- 
lected from King George’s Sound eastward to Cape Riche. 
It is the “ Yeit” of the colonists, and, according to Oldfield’s 
notes, it must be a very variable tree, as he describes some 
specimens as from trees 10 feet high, others from trees 30 
to 40 feet high, and others still from trees of 80 to 100 feet 
high. The bark he describes as rough, hard, persistent, 
and light brown in the larger trees ; as black, and half fibrous 
in others; and as smooth in the smaller trees. At Kew, 
where two specimens are cultivated in tubs in the south 
octagon of the temperate house, it forms a slender tree, 
JANUARY Ist, 1875. 
