Tab. 7200. 

 ETJCRYPHIA Billaedieri var. Milligani. 



Native of Tasman la. 



Nat. Ord. Rosacea. — Tribe Quillaje.e. 

 Genus Eucryphia, Cavanilles; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 615.) 



Etjcetphia Billardieri ; frutex v. arbor glaberrima, foliis oppositis simplicibus 

 breviter petiolatis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis integemmis coriaceis 

 subtus glaucescentibus, floribus albis breviter pedunculatis. 



E. Billardieri, Spack. Hist. Nat. Veg. vol. v. p. 344; Hooh.f.Fl. Tasman 

 vol. i. p. 54 ; Benth. Fl. Austral.vol. ii" p. 446. 



Carpodontos lucida, Labill. Voy. Terr. Austr. vol. ii. p 16 t. 18- Fl STov 

 Holl. vol. ii. p. 122 ; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 556. 



Var. Milligani ; frutescens, foliia minoribus lineari-oblongis confertis, rloribu* 

 mmoribus. 



E. Milligani, Hook.f. Fl. Tasman. I. e. t. 8. 



Under E. piimatifolia, at Tab. 7067 of this work, I have 

 remarked upon the various opinions that have been held 

 as to the position in the Natural system to which this 

 very remarkable genus should be referred, HypeHcinea, 

 Chlaenacece, Saxifragece, Rosacea?, or Tiliacece';. to which 

 might be added with as much reason as some of the above 

 TervstroemiacecE. The fact is that Eucryphia has no 

 hitherto recognized undoubted near relatives in the vege- 

 table kingdom, and having regard to the two most notice- 

 able points in its history and structure, namely that it is 

 confined to Chili and Australia, and that of the three 

 known species two have simple and one pinnate leaves, it 

 may well be regarded as the evidence of a vegetation 

 different from that now existing, which flourished when 

 there was either direct or interrupted land communication 

 between the temperate regions of Australia and South 

 America. 



In the Flora of Tasmania I regarded var. Milligani as a 

 species distinct from E. Billardieri, from which it differs 

 hi the much smaller size of all its parts, and shorter more 

 obtuse leaves; it also inhabits higher elevations and never 

 attains the stature, sometimes one hundred feet, that E. 

 Billardieri does. Bentham, however, in the Australian 



October 1st, 1891. 



