about nine feet high, with smooth bark and _ spreading 
branches, as represented in the figure. 
Lucalyptus cornuta was raised at Kew, from seed sent by 
Drummond many years ago, and flowers annually in about 
June from the old wood. The flower-heads and flowers of 
the cultivated plant are more than twice as large as those of 
any wild specimen in the Herbarium. 
Descr. A small or large slender tree, with a bushy crown ; 
branchlets slender, hardly drooping, red. Leaves three to 
“four inches long, alternate, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 
~ acuminate, narrowed into a short red petiole ; nerves obscure, 
oblique, the intra-marginal remote from the margin. Mowers 
six to forty, in a globose head four to six inches in diameter 
(including the operculum), closely cohering by their calyces, 
but not connate or sunk in the receptacle ; peduncle very 
stout, curved, two inches long, compressed horizontally. 
Calyz half an inch long, green, turbinate, angled ; operculum 
one to one and a half inches long, conical at the base, narrowed 
into a stout obtuse curved beak, bright red. Stamens forming 
a dense corona, three inches long, the inner shorter, filaments 
flaccid, yellow; anthers linear-oblong, cells parallel. Ti 
of ovary conical, not sunk below the margin of the calyx- 
tube, narrowed into a slender curved style. Head of fruit 
often three inches in diameter.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced view of tree; 2, branch, leaves, and inflorescence ; 3, 
calyx and ovary :—of the natural size. 
