Tas. 7074, 
EUCALYPTUS srricra. 
Native of New South Wales. 
Nat. Ord. Myrracem.—Tribe LeprosPERMEz. 
Genus Evcatyrtus, L’ Hér. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 707.) 
Evcatyptus (Renanthere) stricta; frutex v. arbor parva, foliis linearibus v. 
lneari-lanceolatis crassiusculis utrinque nitidis venis obscuris obliquis, 
pedunculis solitariis brevibus teretiusculis 4-8-floris, floribus parvis 
breviuscule pedicellatis, alabastris ovoideis, calyce vix } poll. diam., 
operculo tubo breviore depresso-hemispherico v. conico granulato, sta- 
minibus calycem subequantibus alabastro inflexis, antheris minutis 
globoso-reniformibus, loculis parallelis demum rimis divergentibus dehis- 
centibus, fructu } poll. diam. globoso-truncata levi, oris margine acuta, 
valvis capsule inclusis. 
E. stricta, Sieber in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post., p. 195; DC. Prodr. vol. iii. 
p. 218; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 217 (exel. syn.). 
E. virgata, Sieber 1. c. p. 195; DC. 1. c. p. 217. 
E. cneorifolia, DC. Mem. Myrt. t. 9. 
E. Luehmaniana, F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. vol. xi. p. 38. 
No genus in the vegetable kingdom contains species 
more variable, or more difficult to define, than Hucalyptus, 
and of this H. stricta is a conspicuous example; for 
amongst the many forms of it preserved in the Herbarium 
of Kew, and which present leaves varying from linear to 
elliptic-lanceolate, from two to five inches long, and from 
a quarter to upwards of half an inch broad, and from obtuse 
_to acute or acuminate, there is none at all resembling that 
here figured in the slender long pendulous branches and 
very narrow flexuous leaves. These differences in characters 
and habit may, however, be attributed to the difference in 
respect of humidity of the Temperate House at Kew in 
which the specimen figured was grown, and the compara- 
tively dry climate of New South Wales. 
In his most valuable ‘‘ Eucalyptographia,” Baron von 
Mueller has discussed the intricate synonymy of this 
variable species, and corrects some of Mr. Bentham’s 
observations, into the details of which it is not necessary 
to go here. Of these the most important point is that 
whereas in the Flora Australiensis HE. stricta is referred to 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1889. 
