Tas. 7697. 
EUCALYPTUS ricirotia. 
Native.of South-western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Myrracem.—Tribe LertosPpERMEA, 
Genus Evcatyrrus, L’Her.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 707.) 
Evcatyptus (Corymbosz) jficifolia; arbor mediocris, umbrosa, cortice persis- 
tente rimoso, ramulis robustis, foliis petiolatis sparsis v. suboppositis 
4-6-pollicaribus ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis in petiolum 
decurrentibus subsequilateris tenuiter coriaceis supra saturate viridibus 
subtus opacis, nervis innumeris patulis circumficiali margini proximo, 
glandulis oleiferis obscuris, umbellis simplicibus v. subpaniculatis 4-6- 
floris, pedicellis subsequalibus teretibus, calycis tubo pyriformi tereti 
% poll. longo ore vix constricto, operculo tenui brevi depresso, filamentis 
coccineis, antheris omnibus fertilibus, fructu ovoideo v. urneformi 1-13 
poll. longo 3-4-loculari, oris margine acuto, valvis demum depressis, 
_  seminis ala decurrente nucleo longiore translucida. 
E. ficifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. vol. iti. p. 85; Hucalyptographia, Dec. vii. eum 
ic.; Rep. Forest Region of W. Australia, p. 5, t.3; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vol. iii. p. 256; Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. ii. p. 465 fruct. 
Sag! of scenery with H. ficifolia, in North Gallery, Royal Gardens, Kew, 
o. 789. 
_ According to the late Baron Sir F. Mueller, the author 
of H. ficifolia, “hardly any thing can be more gorgeous 
than forests of this tree seen at the end of January and 
beginning of February, when the flowers diffuse a rich red 
hue over the dark green foliage of the landscape.” It is 
a native of a very narrow area in the extreme south-west 
point of Australia. There, according to Muir and Max- 
well (as cited by Mueller in his Report on the Forest 
Region of Western Australia) it is restricted to a narrow 
belt extending from the west side of Irwin Inlet, to the 
mouth of the Shannon River, hardly reaching the coast, 
and not beyond eight miles inland; there it forms a tree 
seldom exceeding fifty feet in height. The quality of the 
timber is unknown. Mueller, in his ‘* Fragmenta,” gives 
Broken Inlet as.the habitat. 
The nearest ally of ZH. ficifolia is the geographically 
contiguous W. Australian H. calophylla, Br. (t. 4036, 
E. splachnicarpon, Hook.), the Red gum of King George’s 
Frsruary Ist, 1900. 
